Global leadership role at NAFSA for UEA Academic
By: News Archive
An inspiring UEA academic, Dr Eylem Atakav, has been elected as Chair of the Teaching, Learning and Scholarship (TLS) Knowledge Community at NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
Dr Atakav, a senior lecturer in film and television studies, and Associate Dean International (Arts and Humanities) at UEA, will take up the three-year term beginning on the 1 January 2019. She is the first British academic to be elected to Chair the TLS NAFSA leadership position.
NAFSA is the world's largest non-profit association dedicated to international education and exchange. NAFSA's 10,000 members are located at more than 3,500 institutions worldwide, in over 150 countries.
Dr Atakav who has been a member of NAFSA since 2011, teaches courses on women and film; women, Islam and media; and Middle Eastern media. She served as the Leader for the Intercultural Communication and Training Network of the Teaching, Learning and Scholarship Knowledge Community of NAFSA: Association of International Educators between 2015-2017.
She is the recipient of 2016 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Outstanding Contribution to Pedagogy Award, and is a HEA National Teaching Fellow (2016). She is the author of Women and Turkish Cinema: Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation (2012) and editor of Directory of World Cinema: Turkey (Intellect, 2013).
Recently she directed Growing Up Married – an internationally acclaimed documentary about forced marriage and child brides in Turkey. Her film was a selected feature at the 2017 NAFSA Annual Conference film festival held in Los Angeles, which attracted more than 10,000 international educators from around the globe. She recently completed an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project entitled British [Muslim] Values.
“This is an absolute honour to be elected to this role; to be the first British academic leading the Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Knowledge Community. Our members represent the scholars, scholar/ practitioners, researchers, and instructors whose work is informing the dynamic, expanding discipline of international education.”
Mark Grace, Senior Director for Academic Affairs and Internationalisation at NAFSA, said: “We are thrilled about this election. Dr. Atakav will assume the duties and responsibilities of the TLS Chair role in January 2019. As Chair she and her leadership team will inform and help facilitate NAFSA’s global learning professional development programming and be responsible for the setting and accomplishing the work plans of the three TLS networks: Intercultural Communication and Training Network; Internationalizing Teaching, Learning and Curriculum (ITLC) Network; and the Research and Scholarship Network.”
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