Doha: Faculty and researchers from Northwestern University in Qatar have been awarded four grants from the Qatar National Research Fund's (QNRF) Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) and two collaborative research grants by the Qatar Foundation's (QF) Education City Innovation in Teaching Grant program.
Marking the occasion, Dean and CEO of Northwestern Qatar Marwan Kraidy said:
"By utilizing their expertise in the field of journalism, critical security studies, and digital media, these researchers are boosting Qatar's strategy to be a thriving knowledge society while also advancing the future of research and collaborative engagements in academia to new heights."
Professors Khaled Al Hroub, Eddy Borges-Rey, Hasan Mahmud, and Spencer Striker are among the faculty awarded the grants by QNRF's Undergraduate Research Experience Program. As part of their projects, they will work with students from Northwestern Qatar to examine digital citizenship in the Arab world, higher education in Qatar, the Palestinian diaspora in Qatar, and the history of global pandemics.
In addition to the grants by QNRF, faculty and researchers from Northwestern Qatar were also awarded grants through QF's Education City Innovation in Teaching Grant program for projects examining religious pluralism and critical security studies. These grants are awarded to cross-institution research projects by faculty in Education City and Qatar to implement creative and innovative pedagogical approaches in the classroom.
Northwestern Qatar faculty, researchers, and students engage in a variety of research and creative scholarship across academic and research disciplines, including advertising and strategic communication, African studies, media, and digital literacy, science and technology studies, and several other topics related to the Global South and the region.
