Today’s topic is space in educational research. My guest is Marianne Larsen, an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario. Dr. Larsen’s recent research focuses on the overall processes and effects of the internationalization of higher education. She has been researching how internationalization policies are taken up ‘on-the-ground’, as well as the role of higher education leaders in advancing internationalization agendas. Building upon her work on advancing new spatial and mobilities theories in comparative education research, she is currently writing a book entitled Internationalization in Higher Education: New Spatial Theorizing.

I speak with Dr. Larsen about how she and her colleague Jason Beech theorize the concept of educational space not as an object of study but as a set of relations between individuals and groups.