Professor Elspeth Jones is responsible for leading the University’s ambitious internationalisation plans. These include all aspects of the international student experience, from recruitment to alumni relations, internationalisation for home students, and associated staff development.

With a background in applied linguistics and teaching English as a foreign language, Elspeth has many years’ experience of learning, assessment and cross-cultural issues for students from a wide variety of nationalities and cultural backgrounds. She worked at the British Council in Japan for three years and in Singapore for four years. Her output includes Internationalising Higher Education (edited with Sally Brown) (Routledge 2007), Setting the Agenda for Languages in Higher Education (edited with David Head, Mike Kelly and Teresa Tinsley) (CILT, 2003) and is currently editing her next book entitled, Internationalisation: the Student Voice.

She has delivered many keynote speeches around the world and authored a range of chapters and papers on values-driven internationalisation and world-wide horizons. Elspeth also initiated Leeds Met’s International Reflections webpage and has edited it for four years.

Elspeth participated in session 3f - Open forum: partnership and collaboration