The summer school took place within the APPEAR project Rooting Research in the Palestinian Context | ROOTDEVPAL. Continuing the discussions of the first summer school in Beirut in 2017, the participants further engaged with the overall question of what it means to change perspectives of knowledge production in / on Palestine and Palestinian communities in their different localities.
Hada Aleryan holds a Masters of Business administration with a Bachelor in Economics from Birzeit University. Currently she is a PhD student in the Department for Development Studies at the Universtiy of Vienna. Hada is researching on the transformations of the higher education sector in Palestine. Before that she worked at the Vice-President for Community Affairs Office at Birzeit University and previously at the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy.