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📣New to the UK?
The @UKYoungAcademy just launched its free Beginner's guide to UK academia for at-risk scholars.
Read it for info on the UK's higher education system, navigating academic career pathways, and accessing sources of support.
🔗Link here: tinyurl.com/bdfytw6j
📢 Applications are now open for the Cara Palestine Programme Virtual Fellowships
📅 Application Deadline: October 5, 5pm (PSDT)
📅 Information webinar: September 10, 11-12 pm (PSDT) / 9- 10am (BST) | Register via: tinyurl.com/zbsdbr2h
LEARN MORE: cara.ngo/palestine-programme
🤝 We're thrilled to be shortlisted with the @RoySocChem Chemist Community Fund for The Association of Charitable Organisations Charity Collaboration of the Year!
What an honor to be in such good company! tinyurl.com/4cvrkxzc
Thank you to Lord @StewartWood, Lord @SyedKamall and Baroness Julie Smith for hosting Cara at the @UKHouseofLords
Academics around the world face growing threats. We hope this starts many more conversations on how we can support academics at risk and academic freedom worldwide🌍
It was a pleasure, alongside my colleague @SyedKamall, to co-host a seminar in the House of Lords yesterday for the Council For At-RIsk Academics, an organisation that does so much to offer support, protection & refuge for academics facing persecution around the world. @CARA1933
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬:
📅 Monday 6 July | 17:00
📍 House of Lords, Committee Room
✉️For enquiries: [email protected]
👥🏠💼 Many displaced academics who start over can face changes to their identity, belonging, and sense of purpose Here's how we can help at-risk academics thrive in their new environment.
READ: tinyurl.com/yces6atm
The Research Beyond Borders Symposium with @imperialcollege was an insightful reminder of why UK universities must come together to protect at-risk academics.
Thank you to all the fellows, alumni, and Cara partners who came to the event.
READ➡️: tinyurl.com/44mw73sh
🏛 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬: 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 & 𝐔𝐊 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞
EVENT DETAILS:
📅 Tuesday 21 April
🕠 17:30
📍 House of Lords, Committee Room G
👋 It was great to connect with colleagues at the 2026 Philipp Schwartz Forum organised by @AvHStiftung
We joined @ScholarsAtRisk to discuss approaches to risk assessment and why assessing each application on a case‑by‑case basis matters.
Cara Fellow Dr. Sergey Svetunkov was forced to leave Russia for helping Ukranians affected by the war. He is now continuing his research at @imperialcollege , working freely after it became impossible to do so at home.
👉READ HIS STORY HERE: cara.ngo/news/russian-cara-f…
📰 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐊 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧, 𝐌𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐫, 𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐧
An excerpt from Cara Fellow Dr. Alaa Zam's short address at the Cara and @royalsociety Science and Civilisation Lecture. Dr. Zam is a Syrian Cara Fellow and a researcher at @KingsCollegeLon whose work focuses on cancer nanomedicine.
READ HER SPEECH HERE: tinyurl.com/4vdhcjxy
📢 “Intellectual diversity is not simply desirable, it is a practical requirement for learning.”
Powerful words from @ERC_Research President Maria Leptin's lecture at Cara and @royalsociety's 2026 Science and Civilisation lecture
💻 WATCH IT HERE: lnkd.in/eD2Zq57r
👉More on @ERC_Research President Prof. Leptin's speech at the Science and Civilisation Lecture.
Also speaking at the event: Cara CEO Matt Foster and fellow Dr. Alaa Zam, who spoke of how violence and instability impact research possibilities.
tinyurl.com/2s4h39se
📰 IN THE NEWS:
Speaking at the annual Cara and @royalsociety Science and Civilisation Lecture, the ERC President raised concerns that funding pressures and and bureaucratic demands were undermining the credibility of scientists.
READ HERE:
timeshighereducation.com/new…
Cara - the Council for At-Risk Academics retweeted
"Alongside active suppression, there’s a quieter process through which scientific freedom can narrow without formal prohibition or visible coercion"
ERC President Maria Leptin warned of current decline of #academicfreedom.
Watch her @CARA1933 lecture!
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Tonight we are very excited to be having our annual Science and Civilisation lecture, with guest speaker Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council.
➡️ To join us online, please follow this link youtube.com/live/-rIBfB_UjvY.
Maria’s lecture on academic freedom in times of change is now starting. This will be followed by a Q&A session and final remarks from our Executive Director and a Cara Fellow.
➡️ To join us online, please follow this link - youtube.com/live/-rIBfB_UjvY
Tonight we are very excited to be having our annual Science and Civilisation lecture, with guest speaker Maria Leptin, President of the European Research Council.
➡️ To join us online, please follow this link youtube.com/live/-rIBfB_UjvY.