Ian Cave talks about a life of helping others – with the NHS and as a volunteer ‘accompanier’ in Palestine.
Category: Gaza Scholarship
Our Gaza scholars
Oxford Brookes’ Gaza Scholarship was started in 2009 to “indicate to Palestinians in Gaza that they hadn’t been forgotten”. It funds students from Gaza to study for a Master’s degree at Oxford Brookes. Here is an update on the progress of some of our scholars following their time at Brookes.
Gaza scholarship – “like a dream come true” for Haya
In 2019, Haya Abdalhadi, received the Gaza Scholarship to study MA Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes’ renowned Centre for Development and Emergency Practice. She says receiving the scholarship was “like a dream coming […]
How to start a scholarship
Hadil Louz is the eighth student to receive the Gaza Scholarship. Observe caught up with one of the scholarship’s founders, Sir Iain Chalmers, to find out how he and fellow Oxford Brookes honorary graduate, Dr Paul Brankin got it started.
“The best decision of my life”
Hadil Louz was typical of so many young people in Gaza, hungry for knowledge but finding it difficult to access further study; desperate to work to improve her society but unable to find a paid […]