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DRMC Student Fellows

Staff and post-graduate research students make up a community of DRMC Fellows from a wide range of disciplines.  Fellows meet regularly to share expertise, develop novel research methods and engage in the pedagogy of research methods training.  To support their activities, Fellows have access to small pots of DRMC funding.

Please contact us if you’d like to find out more about becoming a DRMC Fellow.  Staff can apply to be a DRMC Fellow here.  Post-graduate research students can apply to be a DRMC Student Fellow here.

Name Position Research Interests
Justice Aina

DRMC Student Fellow

Postgraduate Research Student in the Department of Sociology
  • Elite education
  • Health equity
  • Race and education
  • Intersectional approaches
  • Education economics
  • Cultural Studies
  • Social stratification 
  • Mixed methods research
Halima Akhter

DRMC Student Fellow

Member of The Department of Anthropology
  • Co-production
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Ethnographic Research Tools
  • Mixed Methods Research
  • Maternal and Reproductive Health
  • Health, Illness and Culture
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Reproduction
  • Medical Ethics
  • Health Policy Development
  • Mental Health and Well-being
Mr Anas Almassri

DRMC Student Fellow

Research Student in The School of Education

 

 Anas works on education and peace, particularly on their interplay in such contexts of protracted crisis as that of Palestine. Previously, at Durham’s SGIA, he completed his MSc dissertation on peace practitioner education, exploring how curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy in postgraduate peace studies programs may better contribute to preparing critical peacebuilding professionals. At Georgetown, he completed several original research papers on Palestinian students—their entrepreneurial self-reliance of learning for employability, their voluntary engagement in service-based learning, their political socialization as influenced through their undergraduate study in the U.S., and the structural challenges they face in trying to become successful entrepreneurs. He also researched the use of international scholarships to advance Saudi-American relations and the contribution of American exchange diplomacy to conflict resolution in Palestine.
Miss Mariam Sarhan

DRMC Student Fellow

PhD Student in The Business School
  • Marketing Consumer behaviour
  • Innovative Technology and Marketing management
  • Brand Management Interdisciplinary research
Yuanya Zhang

DRMC Student Fellow

Research Student in The School of Education
  • Teenagers, social media and technology
  • Middle-school education and youth development
  • Youth culture and cultural production
  • Rural-urban inequalities
  • China studies