An accidental interculturalist – An interview with Cathy Wellings

An accidental interculturalist – An interview with Cathy Wellings

June’s blog at SIETAR UK features an interview with our President, Cathy Wellings, and she kindly shares with us how she entered the field and where she sees the future of SIETAR UK as an organisation. Curiosity is at the root of many of our interculturalist stories...
Becoming an interculturalist doesn’t happen overnight

Becoming an interculturalist doesn’t happen overnight

This month we interviewed Adrian Pilbeam who has been involved with SIETAR Europa and SIETAR UK since their early days. He was on the board of SIETAR Europa for 5 years (2019-2024) and Treasurer for three. He was also President of SIETAR UK for 6 years and has worked...

Helping Modern Learners Become Intercultural Learners

by Pilar Teran & Gabriela Weglowska Introduction The fields of intercultural communication studies and intercultural education are not new, but have grown in recent decades in response to new challenges as the world has become more globalised: advances in new...

Only foreign students and staff need cultural awareness training?

The world we live and work in today has changed and diversity has become a distinguishing feature all around us, in countries, regions, cities, companies, families and in universities and classrooms. Learning to live together ‘as equals and in dignity’ (White Paper on...