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Robert O'Dowd is full professor for English Studies at the Universidad de León, Spain. He has taught at universities in Ireland, Germany and Spain. He has published extensively on the application of Virtual Exchange in Higher Education and has coordinated 3 Erasmus+ projects on the topic of VE, including the European Policy Experiment ‘Virtual Innovation and Support Networks for Teachers’ (VALIANT) (2021-2024). He collaborates with organizations on the promotion and integration of Virtual Exchange in higher education and his most recent book is Internationalising Higher Education and the Role of Virtual Exchange (2023, Routledge). He has been listed in 2023 and 2024 in Stanford University’s ‘Ranking of the World Scientists: World´s Top 2% Scientists’. 

Robert’s publications are available here: http://unileon.academia.edu/RobertODowd 

Edited Volume (2024): Virtual Innovation and Support Networks

Book (2023): Internationalising Higher Education and the Role of Virtual Exchange

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