Event news - in a couple of weeks, DEAR has a session focussing on a particular aspect of waywardness in international academia; namely, the "Deployment of wayward behaviour as a form of resistance". 3rd December 2024 3-4pm at the Warwick University campus.

This event is a crossover between the DEAR Centre and the final class of EQ923 which DEAR Centre Deputy Director Dr James Burford leads. The presentations are ones that Prof. Emily Henderson, S. Arokia Mary, Dr Ahmad Akkad and Fatima Alhaj Hasan will be giving at the upcoming Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) conference in December 2024 along with Dr Burford.

You are warmly invited to come along to cheer our speakers on and learn from their fantastic presentations. This will be an in-person only event.

The titles of the talks are:

• ‘A sense of social responsibility’: Informal higher education outreach practices in Indian academia – S. Arokia Mary and Prof. Henderson
• 'Navigating complexities of higher education recovery: Displaced Syrian academics’ informal contribution to Syrian higher education – Dr Akkad
• 'The Road Less Travelled': Informal Conflict Management Practices in Syrian Higher Education Institutions – Fatima Alhaj Hasan

Please RSVP to james.burford@warwick.ac.uk if you’d like to come along.