1. SRHE Conference 2016 Ahmad Abd Rabuh Omid Shams
PhD Candidate PhD Candidate
Operations & System Mgmt. International Law

2. A tribute to Jo Cox …
MP, member of international humanitarian charity, founded friends of Syria group, preventing deaths in pregnancy and childbirth…
By doing that, she had put her country first and gave a lesson in humanity to the whole world..

3. SRHE Conference 30th June 2016 Access, Retention and Success in HE
Outline
Introduction
Why in Risk?
What is the nature of the programme?
What are the challenges?
About Scholars at Risk
Case 1
About Amnesty International
Case 2
Effectiveness & Measures
Conclusion & Recommendation
Challenges: reaching out – transcripts - deadlines

4. Humanitarian Parameters Motives
Introduction
Why in Risk?
War
Political Views
Ethnic Background
Defection
The Nature of the program:
Motives: what are the objectives of the scholars once the assistance is provided
Academic Parameters
Humanitarian Parameters
Motives

5. Research Interest Matching
Challenges
Challenges
Visibility
Language proficiency
Research Interest Matching
Track Suitability
Transcripts
Visas & Immigration
Visibility = outreach
Transcripts = deadlines & attestations

6. About Scholars At Risk
A network that coordinates with 400+ universities in 39 countries around the world.
Applicants come from 129 countries primarily from Syria, Iraq, Turkey & Ethiopia

7. Case 1 Name: Ahmad Abd Rabuh Nationality: Syrian Education:
2006: BSc Economics – Damascus Univ.
2016: MBA with concentration on Buss. Analytics – Qatar Univ.
Currently: PhD in Operations & System Mgmt. – Univ. of Portsmouth

8. Case 1
The War in Syria
1967
1978
1983
2001
2011
2013
2016
The
president’s
hometown
In 2013, I joined the MBA program in Qatar University
My father went on demonstrations and appeared in several newspapers talking about the massacres committed by the Syrian government.
Syrian army broke into our house and my father’s family house.
Arrested my auntie Taghreed and her son, Mohamad. He was killed under torturing.
In 2016, graduated with MBA and had to find a job within 3 months or get deported
I was lucky to contact SAR and get in touch with University of Portsmouth.
In 2011 and as demonstrations uprose, I went back to Gulf area and worked in many companies.
Visa issues
In 2001, I joined Damascus University and completed my BSc in Economics in 2006
In 1967, Golan Heights were suggested to have been traded by the then-minister of defence, Hafiz Al-Assad, in an exchange of backing up his presidency overrule.
In 1983, I was born in Doha.
In 1978, my parents immigrated to Qatar after racism started to get more noticeable.
The Capital
Golan Heights