UEA International Student Ambassadors

Presenting my PhD research at the European Parliament Last month, I was invited to present my PhD work at a symposium organised at....the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France!!!! I honestly have to say I was beyond excited. Here is a photo of me on my way to my presentation day...rainy day...but nonetheless finding Strasbourg beautiful. This was my second time presenting my research at an institution outside UEA and I was thrilled to have such an amazing location and platform to do so. I am in the Faculty of International Development at UEA and in my research I focus on understanding the higher education aspirations of Mexican young people living in poverty. I have been passionate about this topic for a long time now and I started researching about it since I wrote the dissertation for my  MA International Development. I was obviously a bit nervous but I have been working in this topic for more than 3 years now! So I knew what I had to say. My 15-minutes prese...

  I met the first person of the conference while in line to check-in at the hotel’s reception. After dropping my things in the room, I had a 30 minute conversation with a girl who had asked me where to find the conference registration table. My assigned roommate and I became close after noticing that our separate beds were shoved together into a king-size mattress (we managed to fix the problem).   In less than an hour I’d met three engaging and diverse individuals. Conferences are fantastic. Every international student at UEA should try to attend a conference during their time in Norwich. Whether this is an event in Norwich, London, Europe, or the US, such conferences offer the opportunity to meet tens or hundreds of similarly passionate people in a comfortable and intentional setting. They are also opportunities to expand knowledge or certain areas and find new ideas or research opportunities.  The Fulbright Conference in Berlin was a general conference f...