Research Projects
These projects represent collaborative efforts to build educational capacity in changing and challenging environments.
Resilience, Resistance, and Sumud: Gazan Academics’ Voices across War and Diaspora (GazaRISE)
GazaRISE is an interdisciplinary research and art project that investigates how Gazan academics sustain teaching, research, and intellectual life during and beyond the genocidal war. Through narrative inquiry, artistic methods, and a digital archive, the project amplifies their voices while advancing new theoretical understandings of resilience, resistance, and sumud.
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Resilience Between Siege and Genocide: Gaza’s University Teachers Speak
A two-year project (2024–2026) conducted under the auspices of the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study. Its purpose is to rethink the notion of “resilience” in extreme conditions and under colonial oppression. Utilizing a social ecological lens, the project explores how higher education in Gaza continues to function through the interplay of protective and risk factors at individual, institutional, and societal levels. Data are planned to be collected from students, teachers, and administrators in Gaza using mixed-methods research approaches.
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How do university teachers survive and thrive in online teaching in deprived and developed contexts?
A one-year comparative research funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation
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Developing digital pedagogics
This project examines the pedagogical education and its effect on university teachers' pedagogical competencies and experiences of teaching during COVID-19. It is also investigating how university teachers develop their expertise in the online teaching domain.
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