James Burford

Assistant Professor - Global Education and International Development

University of Warwick

United Kingdom

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James Burford is an Assistant Professor in Global Education and International Development at the University of Warwick, UK. His research areas include institutional heteronormativity, doctoral admissions processes, and the implications of distance learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. He has published articles examining the experiences of gay academics in China, the role of online advice in doctoral supervision, and narratives of academic migration, particularly in Southeast Asia.

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University of Oxford

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Jan Smith

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Agnes Bosanquet

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Emily Henderson

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University of Warwick

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Z Nicolazzo

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Articles (17)

Pre-application doctoral communications: a missing dimension in research on doctoral admissions

Seeking supervisability: the inclusivity implications of doctoral supervisors’ engagement with prospective applicants prior to formal admissions

‘5 secrets they won’t tell you’: The content and rhetoric of YouTube advice videos about searching for a doctoral supervisor

Institutional Heteronormativity, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Soft Resistance: Gay Academics’ Experiences in Chinese Academia

Improving the experiences of doctoral students at a distance: recommendations for policy and practice

Conceptualising distance doctoral study after COVID-19: are we post-distance now?

Picturing sexuality education in Thailand: a visual methods approach

Improving the clarity of doctoral admissions webpage information: a UK institutional case study

Not Getting Over It: The Impact of Sara Ahmed’s Work within Critical University Studies

Narratives of ‘stuckness’ among North–South academic migrants in Thailand: interrogating normative logics and global power asymmetries of transnational academic migration

Academics’ participation in initiation ceremonies: charting contested meanings and mixed possibilities for orienting Thai freshmen

‘Homeliness meant having the fucking vacuum cleaner out’: the gendered labour of maintaining conference communities

Producing un/professional academics: category boundary work among migrant academics in Thai higher education

Doctoral Students’ Readings of the Politics of University Office Space

Being, adjusting and developing satisfaction: a review of ajarn tangchart (non-Thai academics) within the Thai higher education system

‘Just like studying abroad’: an analysis of the online promotional videos of Thai university international programmes

Thoughtful gatherings: gendering conferences as spaces of learning, knowledge production and community

Collaborators (6)

Ahmad Akkad

Jan Smith

Agnes Bosanquet

Emily Henderson

Z Nicolazzo

Katrina McChesney

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