Sanctuary Scholarships
Around the world, people start their academic careers with big ambitions of building their knowledge to help others and support local and global development. For some, this experience gets stopped in its tracks because of persecution, violence and conflict. Brunel is committed to working with the Council for Academics at Risk (CARA) to help at least one academic each year that is in immediate danger, to continue their work in safety.
In order to support one student at PhD level, it will cost £66,000. With the scale of the crisis in Afghanistan, CARA received almost 700 applications in in the first month of 2022 from academics in immediate danger.
With recent events in Ukraine, this number has jumped again. There are hundreds of individuals fleeing war zones and oppressive regimes and we want to offer a sanctuary where an academic can advance their knowledge, expand their skillset and build support networks, with the hope that when the moment comes, they are equipped to return to their home country and help re-build society.