Our stay in Canada, more accurately in Halifax, has been a wonderful experience combining an academic focus on International Development Studies from sociological, economical, and methodological perspectives, experiencing some sort of a „Canadian“ lifestyle as well as getting to know people from both the rurally charming province of Nova

My main motivation to come study in Australia was that I wanted to study at a non-European university to challenge my thinking. Macquarie did not disappoint. At Macquarie’s Department for Indigenous Studies, I found a course that critically engaged with Western paradigms by introducing concepts from Indigenous scholarship and