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The Affective Researcher

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Great Debates in Higher Education is a series of short, accessible books addressing key challenges to and issues in Higher Education, on a national and international level. These books are research informed but debate driven. They are intended to be relevant to a broad spectrum of researchers, students, and administrators in higher education, and are designed to help us unpick and assess the state of higher education systems, policies, and social and economic impacts.

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The Affective Researcher

Edited by

Andrew G. Gibson

Aarhus University, Denmark

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2022

Copyright © 2022 Andrew G. Gibson.

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Dedication

Dedicated to Kit O'Flatherty (Mamó) and Marie Moroney.

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About the Contributors

Andrew G. Gibson is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Educational Philosophy and General Education of the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. Here he works on the Sapere Aude project ‘Research for impact: Integrating research and societal impact in the humanities PhD’, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. He is also a Research Associate of the Culture, Academic Values in Education (CAVE) research centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he completed his PhD on the Experience of Irish Military Officers in Higher Education. His research interests are broadly in the realm of sociology and philosophy of higher education, with a focus on a critical engagement with policy. He is also coordinator of the ‘Alternative Internationalisms’ working group, and reviews editor of LATISS: Learning and Teaching –– the International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences.

Sarah Healy is a Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and is currently charting recent shifts in the affective dispositions toward children's engagement with digital technologies at home. Prior to the award of this fellowship, Sarah was a Lecturer in Artistic and Creative Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and a Research Fellow within the Deakin University node of the Centre of Excellence for Digital Childhoods. Sarah works at the intersection of studio pedagogies, a-formal learning environments, affect theory, digital methods and the posthumanities. A focus on practice is at the heart of Sarah's teaching and research endeavours, as is a critical and creative approach to ‘doing da(r)ta’ in a more-than-human world.

Samantha Marangell is a Lecturer in Higher Education at the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE), the University of Melbourne. Samantha holds a BA in Child and Adolescent Development from California State University, Northridge, an EdM in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She completed her PhD at the Melbourne CSHE in 2020, focusing on students' experiences of internationalized universities. Her research interests include multiple facets of the student experience of higher education: the experiences of distinct student groups, student well-being, internationalization of higher education and students' intercultural interactions in the learning environment. In addition to her academic pursuits, Samantha enjoys language learning and sleeping in on Saturdays.

Quivine Ndomo is working on her PhD in Social Policy on the labour market integration of highly educated African migrants in Finland, using biographic methods to research workplace discrimination and labour market segmentation and problematising the notion of migrant agency for specific migrant groups. She has authored or co-authored a number of peer-reviewed book chapters on labour market experiences of migrants and internationalization of higher education in Finland. Ms. Ndomo has worked in national and international research consortia on internationalization, mobilities and migration, including a project of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland, and the European Commission's DG Employment funded SMUG project. She also worked on the H2020 SIRIUS project, and from this has substantial experience in interviewing and managing stakeholder relations.

Emer Emily Neenan completed her doctorate in Education at Trinity College Dublin, focusing on geoscience and climate change education at secondary level in Ireland. Her thesis was written as a creative semi-fictional epistolary, including poems, stories, essays and other pieces of writing, and was accepted with no corrections. She also holds an MSc in Geology (Geophysics) and a BA in Geology. In her own time, instead of strange academic writing, she produces strange fiction writing, strange paintings, and strange conversation.

Acknowledgements

Andrew G. Gibson

I would like to most sincerely thank Emily, Quivine, Sarah and Samantha for sticking with this project through circumstances we could never have foreseen. Knowing as I do the difficulties and hardship you all endured while developing and writing your chapters, I am deeply appreciative of the commitment and care you have put into realizing this book. It was only by editing this book that I came to understand what a pleasure and a privilege it is to engage a group of thoughtful and empathetic scholars on the voyage of exploration which we undertook together. Thank you to Marian Mahat, with whom I had some of the first conversations about finding a home for this project, and also for connecting me with Sarah and Samantha. Thank you also to all in Emerald Publishing, especially Kimberley Chadwick and Sashikala Balasubramanian, for their support and understanding, as well as patiently keeping me on track. Thank you to Deirdre Troy for the conversation that was the catalyst for my change of topic that put me on an affective path. Finally, thank you to my husband Sen for his love, support and encouragement throughout this entire experience. Especially so as I moved to Denmark for work midway through working on this book – and I promise I'll walk Alpha and Beta more when I'm home!

Emer Emily Neenan

Thanks to Andrew Gibson for the chat in on Nassau St, the reminder texts, the feedback and the patient belief. Many thanks to Joseph Roche and Colette Murphy for supporting my stubbornly orthogonal approach to thesis writing. Thanks to Laura Bell and Kathryn Lambe, my on-call proofreaders who also have their own jobs to do but never complain. A fond mention, as always, for Áine O'Neill, Frank Neenan, Barry Neenan, Stuart Gorman and Kai Ellis.

Quivine Ndomo

I would like to applaud the kindness, willingness and patience of all my research participants to share their intimate and often tough life stories and experiences with me repeatedly since the beginning of my academic research endeavours in 2016.

Sarah Healy

I research, teach, learn and create on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people who are the traditional owners. They have been the custodians of these lands, skies and waterways for thousands and thousands of years. I offer my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge that Aboriginal sovereignty has not been ceded. I also thank the wonderful students and colleagues that I research, teach, learn and create with at the University of Melbourne. You make artistry, researching and teaching a joy.