Cara Syria Programme

Following successful completion of his MSc in ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’at the University of Bristol, Syria Programme Fellow Jehad Alrefaie has been awarded a University of Bristol Faculty of Arts Scholarship to support a PhD titled ''The Impact of Human-Centered Design Approach on Groups of Refugee Entrepreneurs in the UK''. Double congratulations are due as he has also secured a Graduate Teacher Assistant position.

We are delighted to share the news of a recent publication for which Syria Programme Fellow, Dr Mussaab ALSHBIB, is lead author, ‘Comparative analysis of uncontrollable angles in direct torque and stator flux control and rotor flux control strategies: A numerical and experimental study’ in the International Journal of Numerical Modelling, co-authored by Syria Prog. Fellow, Dr Sohayb Abdul Karim, and Abdulkader Ghazal. This publication is independent of the Syria Programme, providing all the more reason to celebrate its publication in a Q2 ranked journal. https://lnkd.in/egRbR966

We are delighted to congratulate Sham University on its successful two-day Science Fair, showcasing dozens of theoretical and practical projects in various fields, including Mechatronics, Informatics, Agriculture, Chemistry, Political Science, and Economics. Over the course of the two days, the exhibition attracted a significant number of visitors, both official and public, including a notable attendance by female visitors, all eager to explore the students' outputs over the past academic year. The event served as an important opportunity to generate interaction and potential collaboration with key stakeholders, including industrialists and organizations operating in the region. This modest not-for-profit community university, with approximately 3,000 students spread across 6 faculties, was founded in 2016 in Azaz, in the non-regime NW of Syria, to help sustain access to higher education for the tens of millions of university age youths amongst the local community, and almost 3 million Syrians who have been internally displaced to the area by the ongoing conflict. Cara is piloting a Collaborative Developmental Partnership initiative with Sham faculty, supported by a core group of faculty from the universities of Kent, Leeds and Sussex, to help Sham evidence compliance with internationally recognised HE quality standards, and support student mobility in the absence of formal institutional accreditation. https://lnkd.in/ewi8wcav

Two more Syria Programme studies accepted for publication! ‘The lion statue of Ain Dara: Revealing the fate of the icon of Syrian antiquities looted during the war’ authored by Ammar Kannawi and Dareen Ghali will be published in International Journal of Cultural Property, and the ‘Identifying challenges facing the integration of war-disabled people in northwest Syria’, led by Dr Fateh Shaban Ph.D. SFHEA will be published in Disability and the Global South Journal. Considerable thanks is due to their mentors Prof Salam Al Kuntar/Rugters, Dr Neil Brodie/Oxford and Dr Miro Griffiths/Leeds and Prof Roger Slee/Leeds for their support.

📢 Emerald Publishing Open Access Fee Waiver! 📢 We are indebted to Paul Kidd at Emerald Publishing for approving an open access fee waiver in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management. ‘Appropriateness of applying a climate-smart agriculture approach in north-west Syria’ has been accepted for publication pending revisions in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management. Congratulations to the team Safwan Alhaiek, Dr Dr. Mohammad Gazy Alobaidy (Dr. Mehmet ÜBEYTOĞLU), Dr Abdulkarim Lakmes, AHMAD NABHAN and Dr basem saleh on their publication! Many thanks to mentor Dr Camacho-Villa/Lincoln for her support. https://lnkd.in/eRJuTzES

Cara Syria Programme states that English, as the lingua franca of the international academic/scientific communities, remains critical to supporting engagement within the wider international academic arena. Read more about the Cara Syria Programme English for Academic Purposes (EAP) activities where the Password Skills Test is used to assess the English language proficiency levels of the displaced Syrian academics that they’re working with. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eU2iyWx4

Conference fee waiver! A big thank you to the Organising Committee of the forthcoming ‘Cambridge Generative AI in Education Conference 2024’ (16-17th October 2024), to allow Cara Syria Programme Fellow, Mohammad M Wazzan to attend. https://lnkd.in/eCmSAGUh

Cara Syria Programme Fellow, Conference Paper Accepted! Dr Abdulrahman Hafed will be presenting on his work ‘Investigating the Effectiveness of Teaching Arabic Writing as a Native Language Online for Bilingual Children in the Country of Asylum: An Experimental Study’ at the 8th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, and E-Technology (ICEBT 2024), 24-26th Sep. 2024, at Trinity College, University of Oxford. Registration: https://lnkd.in/eZaR5tjf

A busy time for Syria Programme-supported study teams, with two new papers published! ‘Improving some productivity indicators and suitable for machine harvesting of some sesame varieties by mutation method’ published in the Journal Crop Breeding Genetics and Genomics. Congratulations to Syria Programme Fellows: Dr ABDULLAH JHAR, Dr Said SABBAGH and Dr Emad Alkhattab, and contributing colleagues Dr Servet Abrak and Halil Hatipoglu. A major thanks is also due to the study team’s mentor and co-author Dr Adrian Brennan/Durham for his continued support. https://lnkd.in/e-nQTTJv Congratulations are also due to Dr Fatema Abboud and Dr Hamdan Alokleh for their co-authored paper ‘Prison Literature in the Syrian Feminist Novel After 2011’, which was published in Qalamoun Journal. Our thanks as ever to mentors Dr Kaya Anjaria/SOAS and Dr Edward Sugden/KCL for their support. https://lnkd.in/eU9qU5YA