I am currently Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford. One of my areas of particular interest is international student mobility. Moving abroad for part of a degree is associated with significant benefits - in terms of both academic attainment and employment outcome. Nevertheless, these rewards tend to be unevenly distributed, with students from higher income families significantly more likely to participate than their peers from less privileged backgrounds.

Such inequalities were recognised by the UK Government when it launched the Turing Scheme, the UK's replacement for the Erasmus mobility programme, following Brexit. Indeed, a key aim of this scheme, launched in 2021, has been to widen participation to short-term international student mobility.

However, while there is some evidence of improvement in this area, inequalities still remain. My Fellowship focuses on steps the UK can take to address these inequalities through learning from two nations where there has been innovative practice: Australia and the US.