Oxford University’s renowned International Summer School in Forced Migration is now online! To meet growing international demand for the course, the school is being held three times online this year, once in March and twice in July (4-8th and 11-15th).
Each Online School will involve an intensive, interdisciplinary and participative approach to the study of forced migration that enables people working with refugees and other forced migrants to reflect critically on the forces and institutions that dominate the worlds of displaced people. The course combines Oxford’s tradition of academic excellence with a stimulating discussion-based method of teaching, learning and reflection. Subjects covered include: Conceptualising Forced Migration, The Moral Foundations of Refugeehood, International Law and Refugee Protection, and The Politics of Humanitarianism, as well as a choice of optional modules. All sessions will be run and organised by experts in the field of forced migration studies.
Participants will have early access to pre-recorded lectures and readings which will be followed by live online seminars and discussions. The School’s engaging academic content will be complemented by a range of social and networking opportunities for participants.
The Online Schools are principally designed for policymakers, practitioners and early career academics working on refugee protection and related issues, normally with several (usually at least five) years of work experience. Participants typically include staff of the main refugee, migration and humanitarian international organisations; staff from refugee, human rights and humanitarian NGOs; and government officials working on refugee protection and related issues. Those from refugee backgrounds who work for refugee advocacy and community groups are particularly welcome.
Join us and a diverse group of participants from around the world as we take some of the best features of the Summer School and offer them in a new, financially accessible and concentrated format. As always, the Online Schools will be anchored by their academic tutors. The tutors for 2022 will be: Dr Catherine Briddick (Departmental Lecturer in Gender and International Human Rights and Refugee Law, RSC), Professor Matthew Gibney (Director of the Refugee Studies Centre & Elizabeth Colson Professor of Politics and Forced Migration), and Professor Tom Scott-Smith (Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, RSC).
The Schools will also feature an impressive range of speakers from academia and international organisations. Speakers confirmed currently for July include Professor Alexander Betts (RSC), Professor Dawn Chatty (RSC), Alphonsine Kabagabo (Women for Refugee Women), Dr Maryanne Loughry AM (Boston College), Professor James Milner (Carleton University), Dr Caroline Nalule (international law and human rights consultant), and Victor Nyamori (Amnesty International).
How to register:
Please apply using the online form at https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school/apply Instructions for payment of the course fee will be sent with your offer of a place. Your place will be confirmed once payment has been received. Offers are made on a first-come-first-served basis to suitably qualified and experienced applicants. Each school has a maximum of 50 spaces.
Applicants should have:
- substantial experience in working with, or on issues related to, refugees or other forced migrants;
- a first degree;
- proficiency in the English language. As a guide, foreign-language English speakers should be able to obtain a score of: TOEFL iBT: 88 / TOEFL PBT: 570 / IELTS: 6.5.*
* Please note that if your first language is not English, or if your first language is English but you are not a national of the UK, Ireland or a majority English-speaking country recognised by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), you must supply suitable evidence that you have reached the relevant higher or standard level before any offer of a place can be confirmed. The requirement to provide English language test scores may be waived in cases where you have successfully completed or are currently completing a degree-level or postgraduate course that is: full-time, at least nine months long, undertaken at a recognised institution where the medium of instruction and assessment throughout the course is entirely in English.
