Last week we spoke to Jon Braddy at Florida Gulf Coast University about the virtual exchange on Queer Theory that he undertook with Norway and Brazil. This week, his VE partner in Norway, Kari Jegerstedt joins us to tell us more from the Norwegian perspective. Kari has been Head of Read More …
Professor Jon Braddy teaches Queer Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he’s been for the past 22 years. He first began teaching the course in 2013 before taking a break and bringing it back as a virtual exchange in 2023. “It was a hot topic at the time,’ he Read More …
Dr Mirjam Hauck hails from the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University in the UK. She is a founding member of UNICollaboration and has been a passionate and dedicated scholar in the field of VE for the past 25 years. For the last 4-5 years, her Read More …
Konstantinos Petridis is Associate professor and Vice Rector of Internationalisation at the Hellenic Mediterranean University. He is a physicist specialising in laser physics with a PhD from St Andrews University in Scotland. Dr Petridis researches continuous wave laser systems. In particular, how to engineer the physical and mechanical properties of Read More …
Twenty-two-year-old Sophie Brazil is studying History and English at the University of Regensburg in Germany and wants to be a teacher of English when she finishes. Currently she is undertaking a virtual exchange with students from Israel and Turkey. They are all trainee teachers and the main goal of this Read More …
Dear VE enthusiasts, colleagues and friends, We are happy to announce that the Call for Applications to host the next UNICollaboration Conference in 2026 remains open. This is thanks to the great interest in the joint VALIANT/UNICollaboration Conference held at the University of Leon, Spain in February of 2024. The Read More …
More from behind the scenes at UC “Our training team has been beavering away behind the scenes working on some new offerings,’ explains UNICollaboration’s Managing Director, Sara Pittarello. “We met over the summer, here in Padua, where we reflected, analysed and discussed what we thought was missing in the field Read More …
Preeti Suri is originally from India. She’s currently living and studying in the UK at Coventry University, having recently completed a Masters’ in Applied Linguistics and English language teaching. It was in the UK that Preeti had her first experience of virtual exchange. Preeti is undertaking a PhD now, and Read More …
Fabian Krengel, PhD candidate, began his virtual exchange journey at the University of Göttingen in the centre of Germany. He’s undertaking his design-based VE at Regensburg university in Bavaria focusing on using VE to train pre-service English Language teachers on how to perceive English as a global language to encourage Read More …
Netherlands-based Louisa Pruschen was a student during the pandemic, when she found participating in a virtual exchange helped her make the best of a tricky situation. “My Erasmus exchange was cancelled’, explains Louisa. “I was supposed to go to the United States but that didn’t happen. I decided to make Read More …