This section gathers extended explorations of the concepts, methods, contexts, and questions that animate this research. Each page is designed to be readable on its own; you can find something useful here without having read the dissertation first. Whether you are a student developing a research design, an educator seeking practical tools, a policymaker trying to understand the structural conditions of international student life, or simply a curious reader, you will find a way in.
The pages in this section include methodological guides, theoretical explanations, policy analysis, personal reflections, and a Frequently Asked Questions page. They are written in the same Scholarly Personal Narrative voice that runs through the dissertation: first person, grounded in theory, committed to clarity.
All pages in this section are in development and will be published progressively. Check back as new content is added following the doctoral defence.
Pages in This Section
- What Is Photovoice? : An introduction to the participatory visual method at the heart of this study
- What is a Scholarly Personal Narrative? : The methodology of researcher-as-subject
- Blended Witnessing: A Methodological Guide: How this study integrates Photovoice, SPN, and IPA
- Ethics, Consent, and Care: Protecting participants in visual and trauma-informed research
- The Policy Context: International students and the 2024 Study Permit Cap in Canada
- Teaching with Care: Trauma-informed and relational practices in higher education
- Asymmetrical Precarity: When teachers and students share the same structural conditions
- Shared Precarity: Teaching and learning inside the same system
- When Awareness Becomes Harm: Rethinking institutional inclusion
- Malperformative Inclusion: When institutions perform awareness without action
- Seeing Differently: What Photovoice makes visible
- Teaching Business Ethics to International Students: Seventeen years of learning to see
- Mapping the Scholarly Terrain Around SPN: A comprehensive literature search
- Frequently Asked Questions : About Photovoice, precarity, and this research