Jodie Birdman is part of Leuphanais scientific staff and an adjunct lecturer at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. In the first instance, she studied teaching and education to be an English teacher in the United States. She has recently completed her PhD in Education for Sustainable Development with a focus

Marta Fondo is from the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya – UOC). She recently defended her PhD thesis around the topic of anxiety in foreign language learning and communication.  She used virtual exchanges for her research. This is something she says she has experienced herself both as

Stories from Poland Anna Turula teaches at the School of English at the University of Wroclaw in Poland and we are welcoming her back for her second interview for our Blog! She previously worked at the Pedagogical University in Krakow. Despite changing institutions, Anna remains a committed virtual exchange enthusiast.

Eveke de Louw and Jos Beelen are from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, THUAS. Eveke works at the Centre of Expertise, Global and Inclusive Learning, where she conducts research into internationalisation at home. More specifically – internationalisation according to academic disciplines. She also researches the role of educational developers.

Suzi Cavalari is a teacher of English as a foreign language at São Paulo State University (campus São José do Rio Preto), Brazil and Marco Cappellini is a professor of linguistics education at the University of Lyon 1 and ICAR laboratory in France.   They’ve been effectively combining research from

Rawan Tahboub is a PhD student at the Friedrich Schiller university in Jena, Germany. She’s currently working on using virtual exchange as a mechanism for reconciliation, using the inter-Palestinian conflict as her case study.  “The idea came from the potential of youth to actually take an active role in reconciliation