Dr Francesca Burke awarded Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize

Congratulations to Francesca Burke, a 2012 DPhil Politics graduate, who is the co-winner of the 2013 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for her doctoral thesis Students of Resistance: Palestinian student mobilization at home and in exile.

The prize, which is awarded annually by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, recognizes the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities. The judges declared Francescas work a powerful and original thesis that examines a subject much generalised about, but rarely studied in such a serious way. She will share a prize of 600.

Francesca is currently a Research Fellow for the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) based in the British Institute in Amman, where she is conducting research for the British Academy-funded research project Higher Education and Political Change in the Arab World.

More information about the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize can be found here.