Katherine Wimpenny, PhD, MA, DipCOT, CertEd, is a Professor of Research in Global Education at the Research Centre for Global Learning, Coventry University, UK. She is the Theme Lead for ‘Education without Boundaries’ and has 24+ years of experience in higher education research and practice. Katherine’s research with colleagues, locally and globally, is grounded in comprehensive internationalisation, emphasising inclusive pedagogies, interdisciplinarity, social justice, decolonisation, and the role of the ethically engaged university. Her research considers a diversity of learning spaces (digital, face-to-face, blended, formal, informal, and non-formal) that interweave to impact educational opportunities that can connect international learning communities and the university to its locale. She is experienced in a range of approaches to inquiry, including Qualitative Research Synthesis, Arts-Based Educational Research, Participatory and Action Research, Appreciative Inquiry, and Transdisciplinary Feminist Research, including Post Qualitative Inquiry.

Recent publications:

Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. (2024) ‘The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education’. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1), 29–42.

Liu, Dan, Yi Deng, and Katherine Wimpenny. 2024. “Students’ Perceptions and Experiences of Translanguaging Pedagogy in Teaching English for Academic Purposes in China.” Teaching in Higher Education 29 (5): 1234–52.