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HESIG has a very active membership and many opportunities for its members.
Below is an example of some of the activities we promote and offer to our members.
Please consider becoming a member so that you can receive our listserv announcements.

2026 Publication and Travel Award Winners

We are extremely honored to announce the winners of the 2026 Best Publications and Student Travel awards. 

BEST ARTICLE

  • Award winner: International student mobility and poverty reduction: A qualitative study of the mechanisms of systemic change, by Maia Chankseliani, Joonghyun Kwak, Natalya Hanley, Ahmad Akkad, Mercedes Crisostomo and Zhe Wang

  • Honorable Mention: If You Charge Them, Will They Come? The Effect of Levying Tuition Fees on International Students, by Charles Mathies, Hannu Karhunen and Stephen L. DesJardins 

BEST BOOK

  • Award winner: The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China, by Cora Lingling XU

  • Honorable Mention: Universities and Climate Action, by Tristan McCowan

BEST DISSERTATION

  • Award winner: Decolonizing Knowledge: Faculty Experiences of Power Dynamics in UK-India Social Science Research Partnerships, by Punita Lumb

  • Award winner: ‘And We Need You Now!’: Comparative Analysis of Women’s Science Education in the U.S. and Japan During World War II, by Lisa Nakahara

Student Travel Awards

  • Benjamin Levy, University of Waikato

  • Suye Qi, University of Ottawa

Please join the board members of the Higher Education Special Interest Group (HE SIG) of CIES in honoring and congratulating the award winners of Best Book Publication, Best Article Publication, Best Dissertation, and Graduate Student Travel Awards.

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