Johanna Waters graduated from the University of Oxford in 1998, with a First Class (hons.) degree in Geography. She then completed an MA and PhD (also in Geography) at the University of British Columbia, Canada, between 1998 and 2004. In January 2004, Johanna took up the post of Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool. She remained at Liverpool until December 2010, when she was appointed to Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham.

Su-Chuin Soon: Feb. 2009 – present. University studentship. Thesis: The Chinese Community in Liverpool, The University of Liverpool.

Christopher Coey: Sept. 2008 – present. University studentship. Thesis: International education and European Migration, The University of Liverpool.

Raye Ng: 2003 – present. Self-funded, part time. Thesis: Constructions of Corporate Culture in Singapore, The University of Liverpool

Dr. Denise Hinton: PhD awarded September 2010. ESRC/Welsh Assembly funded (1+3). Thesis: The Geography of HE Provision in Wales: Mobility and the Educational and Career Choices of Welsh Students, The University of Liverpool

Dr. Helena Wilson: PhD awarded December 2008. ESRC funded (1+3). Thesis: Children’s Experiences of Mothers’ Employment, The University of Liverpool

Dr. Stephanie Geary: PhD awarded April 2007. ESRC funded. Thesis: Organisational Knowledge in the Merseyside SME Support Sector: Knowing, Individual Interaction and Place, The University of Liverpool

Research Interests

• Transnationalism and population migration
• Transnational families
• International education
• Mobility and education

Current and recent research projects

• ESRC Research Grant 1 June 2009 – 30 April. 2011 (Principal Investigator with Co-Is Dr. Maggi Leung & Prof. George Lin, University of Hong Kong); ‘Joint initiatives between UK and Hong Kong higher education institutions - an examination of student and employer perspectives’, £43,215 (FEC), plus HK$ 350,000 from Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RES-000-22-3000)
• ESRC Research Seminar Series 2009 – 2010 (first Co-I with Dr. Rachel Brooks, Department of Politics, University of Surrey; Prof. Alison Fuller, Department of Education, University of Southampton, and Prof. John Holford, Department of Education, University of Nottingham); ‘New Spaces of Education: the Changing Nature of Learning in the 21^st Century’, £13,965
• British Academy Larger Research Grant 1^st Aug. 2007 – 31^st July 2008 (Co-I with Dr. Rachel Brooks, Department of Politics, University of Surrey); ‘International higher education and the mobility of UK students: motivations, experiences and labour market outcomes’, £91,848 (FEC) (LRG-45489)
• University of Liverpool RDF Grant 7^th April 2006 – 6^th April 2007 (Principal Investigator); ‘Mobility and immobility in affecting educational ‘choice’: developing a methodology for studying intra-family dynamics and contextual factors in decision-making around mobilities and education’, £2,655

• Elected to ESRC Peer Review College (2010 – present)
• Elected to ESRC Overseas Institutional Visit Assessments Panel (2011 – present)
• Advisory Board Member, Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) ‘Laboratory for the Globalization of Korean Studies,’ directed by Prof. Nancy Abelmann, Uni. of Illinois
• Editorial board member: Geoforum; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Monographs and books

Brooks, R., A. Fuller and J. Waters (eds.) (2012) Changing spaces of education: new perspectives on the nature of learning Routledge

Brooks, R. and J. Waters (2011) Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Waters, J. L. (2008) Education, Migration and Cultural Capital in the Chinese Diaspora: Transnational Students between Hong Kong and Canada New York: Cambria Press

Journal articles

Waters, J. (forthcoming) Editorial. The socio-spatial fragmentation of higher education: some unexpected consequences of internationalisation Geoforum

Waters, J. and M. Leung (forthcoming) ‘Immobile transnationalisms? Young people and their in situ experiences of ‘international’ education in Hong Kong’ Urban Studies

Waters, J. and M. Leung (forthcoming) ‘‘To have a degree is to be normal’: young people and transnational higher education in Hong Kong’ Sociological Research On-line

Waters, J. L. (2012) ‘Geographies of international education: mobilities and the reproduction of social (dis)advantage’ Geography Compass 6 (3): 123 – 136

Brooks, R., J. Waters and H. Pimlott-Wilson (2012) ‘Transnational education and the employability of UK students’ British Educational Research Journal 38 (2): 281 - 298

Waters, J., R. Brooks and H. Pimlott-Wilson (2011) ‘Youthful escapes: British students, overseas education and the pursuit of happiness’ Social and Cultural Geography 12 (5): 455 - 469

Waters, J. and R. Brooks (2011) ‘Introduction: international/transnational spaces of education’ of Globalisation, Societies and Education 9 (2): 155 - 160

Waters, J. L. (2011) ‘Time and transnationalism: a longitudinal study of immigration, endurance and settlement in Canada’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (37) 7: 1119 – 1135

Waters, J. and R. Brooks (2010) ‘‘Vive la différence’? The ‘international’ experiences of UK students overseas’ Population, Space and Place, early view, DOI: 10.1002/psp.613

Waters, J. and R. Brooks (2010) ‘Accidental achievers? International higher education and, class reproduction and privilege in the experiences of UK students overseas’ British Journal of Sociology of Education 31 (2): 217 – 228

Waters, J. L. (2010) ‘Becoming a father, missing a wife: Chinese transnational families and the male experience of lone parenting in Canada’ Population, Space and Place 16 (1): 63 – 74

Brooks, R. and J. Waters (2010) ‘Social networks and educational mobility: the experiences of UK students’ Globalisation, Societies and Education 8 (1): 143 – 157

Waters, J. (2010) ‘Distinction, social advantage and mobility: understanding the role of migration in the employment experiences of graduates in Hong Kong’ BELGEO 4: 383 – 393

Brooks, R. and J. Waters (2009) ‘A second chance at ‘success’: UK students and global circuits of higher education’ Sociology 43 (6): 1085 – 1102

Waters, J. L. (2009) ‘Immigration, transnationalism and ‘flexible citizenship’ in Canada: an examination of Ong’s thesis ten years on’Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 100 (5): 635 – 645

Brooks, R. and J. Waters (2009) ‘International higher education and the mobility of UK students’ Journal of Research in International Education 8(2): 191 – 209

Waters, J. L. (2009) ‘In pursuit of scarcity: transnational students, ‘employability’ and the MBA’ Environment and Planning A 41 (8): 1865 – 1883

Waters, J. L. (2009)‘Transnational geographies of academic distinction: the role of social capital in the recognition and evaluation of ‘overseas’ credentials’ Globalisation, Societies and Education 7(2): 113 – 129

Waters, J. L. (2007) ‘“Roundabout routes and sanctuary schools”: the role of situated educational practices and habitus in the creation of transnational professionals’ Global Networks 7 (4): 477 – 497

Featherstone, D., R. Phillips and J. Waters (2007) ‘Introduction: spatialities of transnational networks’ Global Networks 7 (4): 383 – 391

Waters, J. L. (2006) ‘Emergent geographies of international education and social exclusion’ Antipode 38 (5): 1046 – 1068

Waters, J. L. (2006) ‘Geographies of cultural capital: education, international migration and family strategies between Hong Kong and Canada’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 31 (2): 179 – 192

Waters, J. L. (2005) ‘Transnational family strategies and education in the contemporary Chinese diaspora’ Global Networks 5 (4): 359 – 378

Waters, J. L. (2003) ‘Flexible citizens? Transnationalism and citizenship amongst economic immigrants in Vancouver’ The Canadian Geographer 47 (3): 219 – 234

Waters, J. L. (2002) ‘Flexible families? ‘Astronaut’ households and the experiences of lone mothers in Vancouver, British Columbia’ Social and Cultural Geography 3 (2): 117 – 134

Book chapters

Waters, J. (forthcoming) ‘Mobilities’ in R. Lee, N. Castree, R. Kitchin, V. Lawson, A. Paasi, S. Radcliffe, C. Withers (eds.) Sage Handbook of Human Geography Sage

Waters, J. and R. Brooks (forthcoming) ‘Transnational spaces, international students: emergent perspectives on educational mobilities’ in Brooks, R., A. Fuller and J. Waters (eds.) (forthcoming, 2012) Changing spaces of education: new perspectives on the nature of learning Routledge

Brooks, R., A. Fuller and J. Waters (forthcoming) ‘Introduction’ in Brooks, R., A. Fuller and J. Waters (eds.) (forthcoming, 2012) Changing spaces of education: new perspectives on the nature of learning Routledge

Waters, J. (2011) ‘Geography and learning’ in P. Jarvis (ed.) The Routledge International Handbook on Learning Routledge

Brooks, R. and J. Waters (2010) ‘Young Europeans and Educational Mobility’ in M. Worsching and J. Leaman (eds.) Youth in Contemporary Europe, Oxford: Routledge: 85 – 102

Waters, J. L. (2009) ‘Immigration’, in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 5 Oxford: Elsevier: 297 – 307

Waters, J. L. (2009) ‘Internationalization of education’, in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 5Oxford: Elsevier: 548 – 554

Waters, J. L. (2009) ‘Cultural capital’, in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Vol. 2 Oxford: Elsevier : 404 – 406

Waters, J. L. (2004) (with D. Ley) ‘Transnational migration and the geographical imperative’, in P. Jackson, P. Crang and C. Dwyer (eds.) Transnational Spaces London: Routledge: 104 – 121

Waters, J. L. (2003) ‘‘Satellite Kids’ in Vancouver: transnational migration, education and the experiences of lone children’, in M.W. Charney, B.S.A. Yeoh and T.C. Kiong (eds.) Asian Migrants and Education, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers: 165 – 184

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Book reviews

Waters, J. L. (forthcoming) J. W. Salaff, S. Wong, and A. Greve ‘Hong Kong Movers and Stayers: Narratives of Family Migration’. Reviewed for Social Forces.

Waters, J. L. (2011) C. Jeffrey, P. Jeffery and R. Jeffery ‘Degrees without freedom? Education, masculinities and unemployment in North India’,. Reviewed for Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 41: 3, 439 – 441

Waters, J. L. (2008) B. A. Ruble 2005 Creating Diversity Capital: transnational migrants in Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv, Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press. Reviewed for National Identities 10 (2): 237 – 246

Waters, J. L. (2008) R. Edwards and R. Usher 2008 Globalisation and Pedagogy: Space, Place and Identity (2nd edition) (Routledge: London and New York), pp. 191. Reviewed for International Journal of Lifelong Education 27 (5): 599 – 607

Waters, J. L. (2005) K. Mitchell 2004 Crossing the neo-liberal line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis Philadelphia: Temple Press. Reviewed for Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96 (1): 212 – 241

Waters, J. L. (2005) A. Ong 2003 Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, The New America California, University of California Press. Reviewed for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23 (6): 925 – 938

Waters, J. L. (2005) D. S. Massey and J. Edward Taylor (eds.) 2004 International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reviewed for Population Studies, 59 (1): 119 – 134

Waters, J. L. (2004) E. Ostergaard-Nielsen (ed.) 2003 International Migration and Sending Countries: Perceptions, Policies, and Transnational Relations, Palgrave, Macmillan. Reviewed for Population Studies, 58 (2): 247 – 257

Waters, J. L. (2001) K. Willis and B. Yeoh (eds.) 2000 Gender and Migration, Edward Elgar Publishers. Reviewed for Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2 (1): 144 – 145

Working papers

Waters, J. L. and S. Y. Teo (2003) ‘Social and cultural impacts of immigration: an examination of the concept of ‘social cohesion’ with implications for British Columbia’ Vancouver Centre of Excellence, Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis Working Paper Series: No. 03-03, 47pp (http://riim.metropolis.net/)

Bauder, H., J. L. Waters and S. Y. Teo (2001) ‘Economic, demographic and geographic impacts of immigration to British Columbia’ Vancouver Centre of Excellence, Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis Working Paper Series: No. 01-17, 115pp (http://riim.metropolis.net/)

Waters, J. L. (2001) ‘The flexible family? Recent immigration and astronaut households in Vancouver, British Columbia,’ Vancouver Centre of Excellence, Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis Working Paper Series: No. 01-02, 52pp (http://riim.metropolis.net/)

Waters, J. L. (2001) ‘Migration strategies and Transnational Families: Vancouver’s Satellite Kids’ Vancouver Centre of Excellence, Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis Working Paper Series: No. 01-10, 39pp. (http://riim.metropolis.net/)

Research/policy reports and blog entries

GlobalHigherEd Blog entries:

• Waters, J. ‘UK-China partnerships and collaborations in higher education’ April 23 2008
• Waters, J. ‘Private Canadian education firm buys community college and expands existing links with China’ Feb. 18 2008
• Waters, J. ‘Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Liverpool International College’ Dec. 19 2007
• Waters, J. ‘Offshore schools as ‘feeders’ to the Canadian higher education system’ Nov. 28 2007

Waters, J. L. and S. Y. Teo (2001) ‘Social and Cultural Impacts of Immigration: An Examination of Research into Social Cohesion with Implications for British Columbia’ for B.C. Ministry of Multiculturalism and Immigration, Canada

Bauder, H., J. L. Waters and S. Y. Teo (2001) ‘Economic, Demographic and Geographic Impacts of Immigration to British Columbia’ for B.C. Ministry of Multiculturalism and Immigration, Canada

Waters, J. L. (2000) Policy Research Conference ‘Rethinking the Line: the Canada-US border’, October 22nd – 25th, Vancouver, B.C. (published in conference proceedings)

Waters, J. L. (2000) ‘Urban Diversity: Managing Multicultural Cities’ March 27th, Robson Square Conference Centre, Vancouver