ABSTRACT
It has become a commonplace to say that globalization is changing the world, that traditional frontiers are irrelevant and that communication and contacts, being instantaneous or almost so, over any distance, have brought simultaneity despite time zones. Internationalization and its relation to globalization are less widely discussed, despite its being omnipresent in university policy documents. Inevitably, given the rapid change, internationalization has been a strong theme throughout the book. Indeed, the book started from conversations about supervising and examining internationally, and the differences and similarities—but not the uniformity—which exist. Language issues too seem to be created by internationalization, and indeed there is complexity created by internationalization understood as mobility of students and sometimes of supervisors. There are also language issues in a “traditional” supervision and doctoral experience, as student-researchers acquire the language of their discipline as an integral and visible dimension of their joining the “tribe”.
