{"id":1098,"date":"2023-04-25T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/?page_id=1098"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:57:59","slug":"our-interns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/who-we-are\/our-interns\/","title":{"rendered":"Our former interns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hafsah <\/span>Ahmadmunir <\/span><\/h3>
Westminster Alumni<\/div>
Sociology BA<\/div>
Hafsah is a British Asian, Muslim women who has always had a key interest in decolonising work. Hafsah has completed her Bachelor's degree in Sociology and since coming across the Eurocentric nature of the higher education system in the UK, she has often challenged and questioned the curriculum. Hafsah wishes to understand and explore different perspectives in the future by working alongside non-profit charities who support and raise concerns about injustices in society.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Pierre <\/span>Bartin <\/span><\/h3>
BA Sociology<\/div>
Pierre is a third-year Sociology student and an intern of the Pedagogies for Social Justice project, in which he also co-leads the Decolonisation and Anti-racism (DAR) study group. Since joining Westminster, Pierre has been heavily interested in questioning and repositioning some of the societal norms that negatively impact minority groups and communities. More specifically, Pierre has focused a lot of his attention on how social media and algorithms portray and represent groups in different ways.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Melissa <\/span>Charifo <\/span><\/h3>
BA Law<\/div>
Westminster Law School<\/div>
Melissa Charifo is a third-year Law student at the University of Westminster. She is also a research intern on the Pedagogies for Social Justice project as well as an ambassador of the Students as Co-Creators programme. Both roles have enabled Melissa to contribute to the university community and equip her with invaluable knowledge about the Sustainable Development Goals.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Huanyu <\/span>Huang <\/span><\/h3>
PhD researcher<\/div>
Huanyu is doing her PhD at the University of Westminster, to explore the relationship between social media and feminism campaigns, and the feminist narratives in the non-western social context. As a feminist and an East Asian woman, Huanyu believes that the perspective of feminism and the voice of East Asians are of great significance in discussions of higher education issues. She hopes to use them as approaches to contribute to the Pedagogy for Social Justice project.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Zamara <\/span>Khan <\/span><\/h3>
Business Management BSc<\/div>
Zamara is a final year Business Management student with a passion for social justice, particularly feminist issues. She is currently working as a research intern on the PSJ project to learn more about decolonisation within higher education. Her research focuses specifically on decoloniality within the disciplines of Accounting, Finance, and Economics.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Lauren <\/span>Nader <\/span><\/h3>
Business Management Marketing BSc<\/div>
Her Lebanese\/Irish background and her interest in their histories have largely contributed to her fight for a voice as she empathises with the strength of their civilians to stand strong during difficult times. Lauren aims to combine her degree with humanitarian work in the future in the hope to improve third-world countries in the economic, political and social sense. As well as this, she is a strong advocate for women empowerment in which she strives to work with women who are underrepresented, specifically in the Middle East, where they continue to be treated as inferior to their male counterparts.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Chinaemerem <\/span>Obiegbu <\/span><\/h3>
Human Resources Management MA<\/div>
An Austrian-born Nigerian-American with a background in news journalism and bachelor's degree in History from the University of Abuja, Nigeria. Chinaemerem recently switched careers from Journalism to Human Resources and is completing a Master\u2019s in Human Resources Management at the University of Westminster. He is passionate about social justice, fighting against systemic racism and raising awareness about the difficulties faced by the black ethnic group. As a research intern on the PSJ project, Chinaemerem's work focuses on researching decolonial storytelling in Human Resource Management and creating and updating the reading lists for Journalism and History with decolonial resources.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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D\u00e9sir\u00e9 <\/span>St\u00e9phane BAI <\/span><\/h3>
Media and Development MA<\/div>
D\u00e9sir\u00e9 St\u00e9phane BAI is a Media and Development Student MA student from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast, West Africa). He has been studying and practicing Journalism and Communication for the past seven years before joining the University of Westminster, through the Chevening FCDO Scholarship Programme. His interest for human capital, participatory citizenship, inclusive growth, and social change led him to be involved in a couple of projects including Afriquobs, a collaborative online media project he launched in 2020, and the Pedagogies for Social Justice he joined in November 2022 as a Westminster student. St\u00e9phane envisions to be an impactful Communication for Development (C4D) Specialist in order to support SDGs-driven programmes in Ivory Coast and West Africa with innovative communication solutions, and thus contribute to making development to be a tangible reality for each of his fellow Ivorians.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Bhaskar <\/span>Pant <\/span><\/h3>
Data, Culture and Society MA<\/div>
Bhaskar has a professional background in Public Policy and International development implementing innovative projects to promote social and economic empowerment in the informal economy and with marginalised communities in India. He is also a former Chevening Scholar and holds an MSc in Public Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Bhaskar acknowledges the privileges of an upper caste Hindu cis-heterosexual man and the accompanying social networks that provided him meteoric mobility in his academic and professional trajectory. Interested in inter-disciplinary research, he is investigating decolonisation in media and communications studies and computer engineering, as part of the project. He hopes to exchange ideas and learn from his peers in the project to deconstruct decolonisation and debrahminisation in India both in physical and intellectual spaces.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Ozge <\/span>Suvari <\/span><\/h3>
PhD researcher<\/div>
School of Architecture + Cities<\/div>
Ozge is a PhD student investigating the relationship between high-tech agriculture and Mediterranean cities, with a special emphasis on climate change, labour, and migration. Influenced by her background with the Yuruks, a Turkish semi-nomadic group, Ozge's heritage enables her to critically examine contemporary farming practices within the broader context of the global food supply chain. Before her doctoral studies, she served as an adjunct lecturer and practising architect in Turkey, where she was committed to designing public spaces and buildings in culturally and environmentally sensitive contexts. Her architectural projects, underpinned by the conviction that power dynamics are deeply embedded in spatial design\u2014from national museums to places of worship and educational institutions\u2014have shaped her pursuit of socio-environmentally equitable \"making\" practices. Ozge values the transformative potential of narratives to alter perceptions of space and power and pursues representation and storytelling as essential tools for public engagement.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Esra <\/span>Tahir <\/span><\/h3>
Biomedical Science BSc<\/div>
Growing up as a third-culture kid, Esra\u2019s diverse cultural experiences have deeply influenced her identity and perspective. As a Black woman in STEM and a proud feminist, she is dedicated to breaking down barriers and advocating for representation in science. Since embarking on her studies in Biomedical Science, Esra has become captivated by the brain\u2019s profound role in shaping who we are. With a deep interest in neuroscience and mental health, she is fascinated by how the brain\u2019s complex networks influence behavior, emotions, and identity. Esra\u2019s academic journey is driven by a desire to understand the intricate relationship between brain function and mental health, with the goal of contributing to research that uncovers new ways to treat and support those affected by neurological and psychological disorders.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1098","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1098\/revisions\/1669"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/psj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}