Culture and its various concepts and components have long been the raison d’être of SIETAR. But we need to enlarge the concept of culture to comprise more paradigms when it is about changing your own environment and adapting to a new one, for example, students...
The World of Work is changing so rapidly that skills which might have once spanned a whole career in previous generations may now become redundant in only a few years. Companies trying to stay ahead of the curve and ‘future-proof’ their organisations are preparing the...
This article is a result of Valentina’s nomination by SIETAR UK who was one of the supporters of the 22nd Warwick International Conference in Applied Linguistics. SIETAR UK nominated two presentations from the Intercultural Communication track which are of most...
Community development is not a new concept. Largely growing out of the policies and activities of British colonial governors and administrators, the theory and practice of today is still largely influenced by this legacy. As years roll on and government approaches to...
SIETAR Russia: introduction In 2018 SIETAR family welcomed a new member SIETAR Russia. The main purpose of SIETAR Russia is to build a strong network of intercultural practitioners in Russia with activities ranging from conferences, professional development and...
HIGH FIVE & Be International by Marina Rowe We all can imagine how challenging it can be to enter a new international market especially for small and medium-size businesses where you mainly do everything yourself. These are 5 main sections to take under...
I never set out to be an ‘interculturalist’. As a ‘mature’ student (mature? In my 30’s?), I studied International Relations with Sociology in the UK and quickly realized that in order to integrate into and fully understand a culture, I would have to live somewhere...
I still remember those days, with my younger brother, being sat in our kitchen listening to the huge booms being carried across the Persian Gulf by the breeze into our home in Kuwait. Sometimes the earth shook. We knew exactly what those sounds meant. Either hundreds...
By Gabriela Weglowska Although intercultural careers are still quite rare, the field is rapidly expanding. As businesses are going global and teams are becoming more culturally diverse, there are two types of people that are currently in high demand: those with...
By Dr Katharina Lefringhausen Past research on intercultural training focuses on its appropriate content, duration, medium, teaching methods or trainers and trainees’ personality traits that enable changes in cultural awareness, attitudes and behaviors (Barker, 2016;... 
