Partners

Syrian Academic Expertise for Agriculture and Food Security (SAE-AFS)

SAE-AFS is a network of independent Syrian academics and experts in agricultural science, food security and sustainable development. It brings together Syrian experts both inside and outside Syria to contribute to rebuilding the Syrian agricultural sector and enhancing food security in the short and long-term. Visit their website to find out more.

Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security (GAAFS)

GAAFS is an interdisciplinary hub of research, teaching and consulting expertise, to support decision making to transform agri-food systems and food security. The GAAFS network: Global Health and Food Security in Fragile and Conflict Affected States (FCAS) was established in 2019 with the aim of improving relevant Sustainable Development Goals monitoring, and accelerating progress towards food and health security in complex contexts. GAAFS is working closely in partnership with The Global Health Academy, The School of Health and Social Science, the School of Political Science and The Alwaleed Centre to deliver this programme of research. Visit their website to find out more.

School of Health and Social Science

The School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh is a department undertaking research into health, health policy and related fields, including clinical psychology, counselling psychotherapy and applied social sciences, and nursing. Visit their website to find out more.

School of Social and Political Science

The School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh is one of the leading schools of social science in the UK. Research subjects include politics and international relations, social anthropology, and sustainable development. Visit their website to find out more.

Global Health Academy

Another of the University of Edinburgh’s five global academies, The Global Health Academy is a vibrant, evidence led academic community and cross-disciplinary structure. They showcase, support and help enable global health research, learning and networks – advancing the University’s global ambitions and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Visit their website to find out more.

The Alwaleed Centre

The Edinburgh Alwaleed Centre is committed to encouraging a better understanding of Islam and the globalized Muslim world through world-leading research and innovative outreach projects. Alongside its world-leading research and teaching, the Alwaleed Centre has developed a reputation for delivering high-impact outreach projects, promoting a better understanding of Islam locally, nationally and internationally. Visit their website to find out more.

Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara)

Cara provides urgently needed help to academics in situations of persecution, conflict and violence. They support academics both in exile and those choosing to live in their own countries. Cara has been essential to the One Health FIELD Network by making it possible to connect with academics, whose institutions may have been affected by conflict. Visit their website to find out more.

University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. One Health FIELD has worked closely with Co-Investigator Dr Suk-Jun Kim in the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture in order to produce emotive soundscapes detailing the culture, livelihoods, and memories of displaced Syrians for the SyrianFoodFutures and From the Field projects.

University of Kent

The University of Kent is a semi-collegiate public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom. One Health FIELD has worked closely with Co-Investigator Dr Thomas Parkinson in the Unit for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning on the SyrianFoodFutures and FIELD Network projects.

Development Workshop

Development Workshop is a Turkish not-for-profit cooperative established to support sustainable development in Turkey. Development Workshop brings to the Refugee Labour Under Lockdown project their longstanding research and field experience and know-how regarding seasonal local and migratory agricultural workers in Turkey and advising policy and humanitarian actors on how to implement evidence-driven solutions, as well as their contacts with Syrian agricultural workers, agricultural labour intermediaries and employers in the region. Visit their website to find out more.

Waterwhelm

Waterwhelm is an award-winning company commercialising a membrane technology for self-powered wastewater treatment, water treatment, desalination and dewatering applications. The company was founded in 2018 in Scotland and includes a team of experienced engineers, scientists, business managers and advisors working together to re-invent water supply through a pioneering technology. Waterwhelm is the project lead for WaterFOre.

Yarmouk University

Yarmouk University is a comprehensive and state supported university in Irbid in northern Jordan. Since its establishment in 1976, Yarmouk University (YU) has been at the forefront of Jordanian and Middle Eastern universities. The University consists of 15 faculties offering 52 bachelor's degree, 64 master's degree, and 18 PhD Programs in different disciplines. The university also hosts 12 research and career centers; it is home to Jordan’s only Refugees, Displaced Persons, and Forced Migration Studies Center. Visit their website to find out more.

Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University

Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University is a public university in Niğde, Turkey. The University contains 10 faculties, 4 institutes, 3 junior colleges, 1 conservatory, 6 junior technical colleges, 4 chairs of departments, 11 practical and research centres, 8 secretaries-generals, and 7 sub-divisions of secretaries-generals. One Health FIELD has worked closely with Dr Tefide Kızıldeniz, who is Assistant Professor and Head of the Biosystem Engineering Department and Head of the Land and Water Resources Sub-Department in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies. Visit the University’s website to learn more.

Erbil Polytechnic University

Erbil Polytechnic University was founded in 1996 and is a scientific governmental academy in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, which aims to educating technical qualified people in various specialties to meet the needs of society. Erbil Polytechnic University is a partner for the FIELD Network project, for which Dr Abdullah Omar Yassen, Assistant Professor in Public International Law and the Head of the Cultural Relations Unit in the International Office at Erbil Polytechnic University, will provide expertise on Syrian displacement and livelihoods in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Visit the University’s website to learn more.

Çukurova University

The mission of Çukurova University in Adana, Turkey, is to both raise individuals who are researching, questioning, participatory, able to think universally within the ethical and cultural values framework; and to contribute to the development of the country and the region with awareness of respect for the environment by providing for the development of health, science, technology and art according to the interdisciplinary perspective of ‘One Health’. Çukurova seeks to be a leading and innovative university focused on regional development, international recognition and specialized in priority areas to serve science and society. Çukurova University contains 18 faculties, 4 institutes, 3 colleges, 1 conservatory, 11 vocational school of higher education, 6 departments of art, language, history and technical, 7 practical and research centres, 1 central library, 1 language school and an international office. Visit the University’s website to learn more.

Douzan Art and Culture

Douzan Art and Culture is a Syrian non-profit institution that launched in Turkey in 2019, to enable Syrians to practice and shape their contemporary cultural identity, through preserving cultural memory, providing spaces for interaction and capacity building, strengthening solidarity and cooperation to build our cultural future between the heritage and the contemporary. Syrians around the globe brought together by memory, dreamt of free and creative expression, confront our diaspora, preserve our heritage, and contemporaries with our cultural production... That’s how the story of Douzan Art and Culture began. It aims to:

• Contribute to preserving and documenting the Syrian cultural memory and contemporary creative practices and making it available for audience.

• Provide opportunities for cultural interaction and creative participation for Syrians in Syria and Turkey.

• Contribute to enabling Syrian youth to shape their cultural identity freely and creatively.

Visit their website to learn more