Stephen Wordsworth was presented with an honorary degree by Professor Sir Peter Mathieson at the summer 2024 graduations. Prof Sir Peter Mathieson and Stephen Wordsworth The University of Edinburgh was one of the founding members of Cara (the Council for At-Risk Academics), with notable alumni including Max Born and Hans Gal. I was delighted and honoured to receive this award. The University of Edinburgh is one of Cara’s most active university partners, including, uniquely, providing us with our ‘Cara Scotland Manager’. Together, we are able to offer life-changing, even life-saving, support to academics at risk around the world, and their families. Stephen Wordsworth Executive Director of Cara About Cara Cara (the Council for At-Risk Academics) provides urgently-needed help to academics in immediate danger, those forced into exile, and many who choose to work on in their home countries despite serious risks. With a network of over 130 universities and research institutes, Cara work in partnership with the University of Edinburgh to offer their fellowship programme, whilst colleagues at the University also contribute to Cara’s ground-breaking programmes to help those working in exile in their countries, such as the Syria Programme. An ‘academic’ is someone who has held a post as a lecturer and/or researcher in a higher education institution or equivalent. Cara does not distinguish between seniority, gender or discipline. Visit the Cara website Our Academics At-Risk Fellowship The University of Edinburgh has up to 10 placements per year. Recent support has been offered to academics and their families from Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria and Turkey, who have a range of research interests across our three colleges – the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science (CAHSS), the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) and the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (CMVM). Found out more about our Academics At-Risk Fellowship This article was published on 2024-07-29
