2134/28012 Heike Jons Heike Jons Boundary-crossing academic mobilities in glocal knowledge economies: new research agendas based on triadic thought Loughborough University 2018 Academic mobility Student migration Higher education Knowledge economy Glocalisation Triadic thought Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified Sociology 2018-01-09 13:47:19 Journal contribution https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Boundary-crossing_academic_mobilities_in_glocal_knowledge_economies_new_research_agendas_based_on_triadic_thought/9484169 This editorial introduction identifies a need for more multidimensional and collective theorisations of boundary-crossing academic mobilities in order to conceptualise this phenomenon, compare empirical findings, and identify new research perspectives. My suggestion is that triadic thought – or the thinking in three rather than two conceptual categories – overcomes some of the limitations that binary thought has imposed on social theory. By transforming the three conceptual dyads that frame this special issue on boundary-crossing academic mobilities, namely mobility/migration, students/academics, and local/global, into more differentiated relational triads, I argue that ordering and framing studies on academic and other mobilities through three-by-three matrices grounded in triadic thought helps to advance conceptual debate and unfold a wider research agenda in truly collective ways.