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Associate Professor Eeqbal Hassim

Eeqbal Hassim is an education consultant specialising in intercultural education, international education, and the development of general capabilities. He holds the title of associate professor as an honorary principal fellow at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne. Hassim has worked extensively with education providers, systems, and networks nationally and internationally, across a range of different curricula. He is a qualified administrator of Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)® and has collaborated with the Council of International Schools on a wide range of global learning, intercultural competence, and diversity, equity, and inclusion projects. He holds a bachelor’s degree in arts with first-class honours and a doctoral degree from The University of Melbourne.

Marianne A. Larsen is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Education, Western University in London, Canada. Her research is situated within the field of comparative and international education with a focus on global citizenship education. She has conducted research on the ways that international service-learning experiences shape university students (and host communities) as global citizens. More recently, she has been researching how academics are urged to ‘go global’ by teaching and researching abroad. Dr. Larsen is interested in pushing the boundaries about how we think about the effects of internationalization processes, challenging taken-for-granted assumptions about how we internationalize our educational institutions, and considering the value of shifting focus from global citizenship education to global learning for all.

Adriana Díaz is Lecturer in the Spanish and Latin American Studies Program at The University of Queensland’s School of Languages and Cultures. Adriana’s research activities are concerned with the development of (critical) intercultural language learning pedagogies across educational contexts. She is particularly interested in learning more about how insights from critical pedagogy and decolonial critique can help us un/re-learn the ways in which we engage with languages education. Her current research projects focus on examination of global imaginaries underpinning modern universities’ internationalisation processes and their impact on the provision of languages education. She is the author of Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education: Theory and Practice (2013, Multilingual Matters) and co-editor (with Maria Dasli) of The Critical Turn in Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogy (2017, Routledge).