 I've been nominated for the Early Career Researcher Award. I think I've been nominated due to my contributions overall to teaching and learning at the Open University. My work is specifically on international student experiences. We have a really vibrant international student population on campus. My work contributes to understanding their social experiences. I've also been really, I would say, active in my publication and grant submissions. I've been quite busy and successful this year in that sense. I think we have seen sort of a rising hostility towards immigrants and towards diversity in general around the world over the last few years and what my research is looking at is understanding the social impacts of immigration, the social impacts of international student experiences. I personally feel that universities have a really valuable and important role in encountering that rhetoric and celebrating the diversity that's present in our societies. The most obvious avenue of that is in supporting international student experiences. So I think we need to be asking really big questions around how do we make sure international students feel supported and valuable here at the Open University and more broadly in the UK and how do we make sure that we're developing sensitive spaces for intercultural communication both here on campus and in our wider communities. So that's what my research tries to impact. I think I feel really honored just to be nominated and I'm very proud of the hard work that I've put into this year. So I would imagine that winning would feel sort of a magnification of those sentiments.