Past UREP Awards

The Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) is a Qatar National Research Fund grant program which provides students with an opportunity to develop their research skills, gain experience in team-based collaboration and participate in a real world project under the mentorship of a GU-Q faculty member. There are two application cycles each year with competition deadlines taking place in the Spring and Fall semesters.

Learn more on QNRF Website

Awarded GU-Q Student Projects

Humanizing Resources: Analyzing Employment Opportunities for the Disabled in Qatar

UREP cycle: 24
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Sonia Alonsa
Student(s): Abdul Rehmaan Qayyum, Khansa Maria

Understanding Royalist, Nationalist, and Tribal Affiliations in the Post Blockade States of the Gulf

UREP cycle: 24
Faculty Mentor(s): Prof. Amira Sonbol
Student(s): Ameena Almeer, Sarah Al-Mutoteh

Qatar’s establishment of infant industries in response to the blockade

UREP cycle: 22
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Alexis Antoniades
Student(s): Rafia Al-Jassim
Deliverables:
- Qatar’s economy. Creation of a database that can be used by any scholar, in the country and abroad.
- Public presentation at GU-Q and also at QNL

Breaking down the Stereotypes: Experimental Approach to Discrimination on the basis of Nationality and Accent

UREP cycle: 21
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Dr. Sulagna Mookerjee
Student(s): Mohammad Taimur Ahmad, Yara AlKahala, Yara Abdelmaged, Awatif Al Habsi
Deliverables:
- Present the work at Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference.
- Present the research results at International Research Meeting in Business and Management (IRMBAM-2018)

Water Security Strategies of Gulf States in Comparative Perspective

UREP Cycle: 20
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Harry Verhoeven
Student(s): Jihane Benamar
Deliverables:
- Presentation of theoretical framework and early findings of the research project at the Middle East Dialogue 2018 meeting in Washington DC on 23 March 2018.

Do US Banks Discriminate in Lending?

UREP cycle: 17
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Alexis Antoniades
Student(s): Fatma Marafi
Deliverables:
- Publications – https://www.usqbc.org/news/gu-q-wins-urep-grant-to-research-discriminatory-bank-lending-practices

Social Chatter and Asset Bubbles: The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin

UREP Cycle: 14
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Alexis Antoniades
Student(s): Touhami Abi, Mohammed Al-Hinai

Fostering SME development in Qatar

UREP cycle: 14
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Mark Farha
Student(s): Sammy Hassan, Matea Malikanovic
Deliverables:
The students held a public presentation at Georgetown

Advancing Financial Education for Transnational Families

UREP cycle: 14
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Ganesh Seshan, Dr. Suzi Mirgani
Student(s): Ahwaz Akhtar, Hisham Hassan, Fatema Hubail, Salar Khan, Atul Menon, Salman Ahad Khan, Sherif Elgindi
Deliverables:
The research was presented at the 2014 Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference and awarded the best student poster presentation for Humanities. The project has also been accepted at an Undergraduate Symposium at GU DC.
https://www.albawaba.com/business/pr/georgetown-university-arc-2014-640234

Environmental Sustainability in Education City: Green Beacon or Green Island?

UREP cycle: 12
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Mari Luomi
Student(s): Bushra Alam, Muhammad Bilal Shakir

The Distribution and Economic Implications of Health Outcomes in Qatar

UREP cycle: 10
Faculty Mentor(s): Prof. Daniel Westbrook
Student(s): Ahmed Warfa, Miodrag Stamboldziev

An Analysis of Global Public Private Partnerships: How Can Qatar Benefit from Them?

UREP cycle: 8
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Alexis Antoniades
Student(s): Jumana Al-Aref, Mohamed Al-Thani

Media Branding and Viewer Perception in Qatar

UREP cycle: 6
Faculty Mentor(s): :Dr. Alexis Antoniades
Student(s): Tarah Makarem

HELP – Helping English Learners Program

UREP cycle: 1
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Candith Pallandre
Student(s):

Baladna: Qatari Articulations of Sovereignty and Self-Sufficiency in the Wake of the Siege

UREP cycle: 24
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Rogaia Abusharaf
Student(s): Abdulqudus Sanni, Khalid Marafi, Muhammad Ibrahim Tariq, John Robling, Ali Al Sheebani, Nasser Al Kaabi

Investigating the Resilience of Qatar’s Trade Network

UREP cycle: 23
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Jack Rossbach
Student(s): Alisha Kamran, Halak Sheth

Jidariya: Every Day is National Day in Qatar

UREP cycle: 22
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Rogaia Absuharaf, Dr. Yehia Mohamed, Dr. Suzi Mirgani
Student(s): Mohammed Al-Jaberi, Saoud Al-Ahmad, Ousman Camara, Mohammed Al-Khulaifi
Deliverables:
- First documentary film by undergraduate exploring the symbolic significance of the Billboard
- The link to the documentary can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1guh351DXW7oR4SrhlArv6j1XeHp053Dc
- For more information, please click here.

Preserving the Linguistic Heritage of Qatar: Language Change and Documentation

UREP cycle: 21
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Yehia Mohamed, Dr. Rogaia Abusharaf
Student(s): Fatima Al-Ansari, AlMaha AlMohannadi, Jassim Al-Thani, Maryam Al-Kuwari, Ameena Almeer
Deliverables:
- The team is working on submitting a book chapter in book entitled “Language and Identity in Qatar”. The edited book in progress.

Women’s Empowerment through War? Democracies’ Foreign Policy Gamble in Iraq and Afghanistan

UREP cycle: 18
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Sonia Alonso
Student(s): Nourhan Elsayed
Deliverables:
- The project resulted in a dataset that includes the data from the manual content analysis of more than 800 statements by the Bush administration between the years 2002 and 2009.
- Presentation of preliminary research findings at the Women in War/at War conference in Milton Keynes, in September 2016.

The Doha Paradox: Reasons for Disparity Between Educated and Working Qatari Women

UREP cycle: 16
Faculty Mentor(s): Prof. Amira Sonbol
Student(s): Tehreem Asghar, Rumsha Shahzad, Mariam Bengali
Deliverables:
- Attend the 3rd Annual Symposium for Undergraduate Research at Georgetown (SURG 2015) and to present UREP research paper.
- https://ijlass.org/data/frontImages/gallery/Vol._3_No._7/2._11-19.pdf

Doha by Design: Urban Planning and social space in Doha, Qatar

UREP cycle: 14
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Patricia O’Connor Dr. Mark Farha
Student(s): Sana Jamal , Nadia Al-Khater, Khadija Mahsud, Catherine Lechicki

Understanding the Construction of Qatari Society: Subjectivity in the 21st Century

UREP cycle: 13
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Rogaia Abusharaf
Student(s): Emilio Ocampo Eibenschutz, Fahad Alkhater

Using Social Media to Assess Qatar as a Brand

UREP cycle: 13
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Alexis Antoniades
Student(s): Danah Dehdary
Deliverables:
Research Paper – Social Media and Nation Branding: A Case-Study of Qatar

Understanding Qatar’s interfaith dialogue culture: motivations, trends, and challenges

UREP cycle: 11
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Patrick Laude
Student(s): Asim Koldzo
Deliverables:
- The student attended the MEDIA RELIGION &CULTURE 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (MRC 2012) ANADOLU UNIVERSITY, held in July 2012, in Eskisehir, Turkey. The student presented preliminary research findings of the research project “Understanding Qatar’s Interfaith Dialogue Culture: Motivations, Trends, and Challenges”

Qatar Longitudinal Study of Transnational Families

UREP cycle: 9
Faculty Mentor(s): Prof. Ganesh Seshan
Student(s): Eilin Francis, Aminah Kandar, Aakash Jayaprakash, Qazi Rashid, Mr. Jibin Koshy, Kham Nang

The Impact of Global Communications on Family Values in Qatar

UREP cycle: 8
Faculty Mentor(s): Prof. Mark Farha
Student(s): Miodrag Stamboldziev, Dalal Al-Thani

International Labor Migration to the Gulf: Understanding Variations in the Worker – Sponsorship System

UREP cycle: 3
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Steven Roper
Student(s):

The Pearl of the Arabian Gulf – A research of Qatari history and heritage

UREP cycle: 1
Faculty Mentor(s): Prof. Amira Sonbol
Student(s): Maryam Al-Emadi & Nejoud Al-Hail