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About Dr Anna Kent's Fellowship research

In 2025 educational institutions in Australia must have professional staff to provide pastoral care and welfare support to international students. But before 1990, international students in Australia were supported by and in the community, through organisations known as Co-ordinating Committees for Overseas Students. Australian and international students also worked together to provide support and advocacy through the Overseas Student Service (part of the National Union of Australian University Students). These efforts enmeshed students with parts of the Australian community.

Dr Kent’s research has been focused on understanding how these organisations operated and worked with international students. This project aims to understand an important element of Australia’s international education history. It also examines the impact of the breakdown in formal links between international students and Co-ordinating Committees.

Dr Anna Kent is a 2025 National Library of Australia Fellow, supported by the Stokes family.

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About Dr Anna Kent

Dr Anna Kent is the Executive Coordinator and Project Coordinator for the Centre for Contemporary Histories. She has extensive teaching experience in a variety of Deakin University history units.

Her research includes international education, international development and foreign policy with a special focus on where these three elements intersect. International development scholarships are one of those intersections and they were the subject of her PhD.