After the ink dries

This article offers a contribution to the limited literature on internationalization as academic work. Using narrative inquiry incorporating a mode of research known as ‘car time’, the authors generate narratives of practice to analyse the day‐to‐day work involved in their international university collaboration. The article foreshadows the dialogic opportunities available to academic staff engaged in collaborative international work. This trust‐based approach to internationalization involves building and sustaining inter‐ and intra‐institutional relationships, catalytic events which ‘make things happen’, and learning from each other via common and divergent institutional practices. While cognizant of demands for increased regulation, the article argues for a broader consideration of the learning to be gained from such partnerships. Three things keep this partnership going long after the ink had dried on official agreements between institutions: a personal click, shared professional interests and a framework for institutional agreements and structures

Business · Collegiality · Dialogic · Erasmus · General partnership · Higher education · Internationalization · Internationalization of Higher Education · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Engineering · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Higher Education Governance and Development · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law

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