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AcademIQ - Strengthening research capacity in Iraq
Overview
AcademIQ is a multi-year programme designed to support Iraqi researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences with academic skills development. Decades of neglect, conflict and the repercussions of brain-drain have taken a heavy toll on the quality of higher education in Iraq. This programme builds on a British Academy funded Iraq Writing Workshop project which was implemented in Iraq in 2019. AcademIQ consists of online research courses, provision of academic writing workshops and academic mentoring.
Academic Research Course
An integrated online听academic research course,听designed specifically for academics in Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, to strengthen their skills in humanities and social sciences听research & academic publishing. It comprises sixteen units designed to be studied independently over the course of an academic year.
Academic Mentorship Programme
The Academic Mentorship Programme is designed for Iraqi researchers in the fields of arts, social sciences and humanities.听Applicants who apply should be interested in strengthening their knowledge of academic skills, writing, publishing and research collaboration.听
AcademIQ鈥檚 courses and activities to support Iraqi academics are not 果冻影院 credit-bearing.
The Team
A team of UK-based academics will work closely with Iraqi universities and researchers to strengthen academic skills.听AcademIQ Programme Lead is Dr Mehiyar Kathem, Deputy Director of The Nahrein Network and Senior Research Fellow at 果冻影院 History Department.
 | is a Lecturer in Professional Academic Communication in English at the Open University in the UK. She is responsible for the Graduate School鈥檚 academic literacies programme, which supports doctoral researchers throughout their research writing journeys.听She received a PhD in Academic Writing from the University of Nottingham in 2019 and is author of听 (Bloomsbury, 2022). Her academic background and interests are in Education and Philosophy. She has taught EAP (English for Academic Purposes), academic literacies and research writing at several universities in Italy and the UK. Before joining the Open University鈥檚 Graduate School, she taught EAP and research writing for 13 years at the University of Nottingham鈥檚 School of Education, UK. Julia is bilingual in English and Italian and fluent in French. Her current research interests lie in the ethical and epistemic impact that machine generated texts may and will have on academic writing and knowledge creation. |
 | Ariane Smart is an Associate Professor at 果冻影院鈥檚 Academic Communication Centre. After a Masters in Political History in Paris, she completed her PhD at 果冻影院. Ariane has over 20 years' experience teaching history as well as academic communication. She has designed and delivered courses and programmes for 果冻影院 in the UK, Kazakhstan and Qatar,听including Pre-Masters in Heritage (果冻影院 Qatar) and in Architecture (果冻影院 Bartlett). In 2019, she was invited to join the British Academy-funded Writing and Publishing Workshops in Iraq. Ariane is a recipient of 果冻影院 Provost Teaching Award, and听a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests include modern myths, collective memory and representations of the past, as well as international higher education, with a focus on academic literacies, criticality and reflexivity. |
 | Ersun N Kurtulu艧鈥痠s an Asscociate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU). Prior to his appointment at ASBU, he held academic positions at TED University, University of Kent, Imperial College London, Open University and Stockholm University. He has published extensively in鈥疪eview of International Studies, The Middle East Journal, Global Society, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Third World Quarterly鈥痑nd鈥疌ritical Studies on Terrorism. Kurtulu艧 is also the author of鈥疭tate Sovereignty 鈥� Concept, Phenomenon and Ramifications鈥痯ublished by Palgrave/Macmillan. His research interests include contemporary trends in terrorism and counterterrorism, Lebanese politics, state sovereignty, politics of the Middle East and collapsed states. He has been an Associate Editor of the鈥疊ritish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies鈥�(BJMES) since 2007. |
 | Sharon Pointer听has 27 years experience as an English language teacher, both in the UK and abroad, working mainly as a teacher of academic writing for doctoral and master's students. Although she began teaching in 1995, she has been working with international students since 1990. She听holds a first class bachelor's degree in Combined Honors (history, ancient history and English literature) from Newcastle University, master's degrees in American History and Race Relations (Newcastle, British Academy scholarship) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Sunderland), and a diploma in English language teaching to adults (RSA DELTA). She now splits her听time between university teaching and self-employed work language editing, formatting and proofreading journal articles,鈥痓ooks, theses and dissertations. |