Hiba Salem is a Senior Research Fellow at the Syria Development Centre and a Research Fellow in Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. She received her PhD and MPhil in Education from the University of Cambridge. Her expertise lies in the field of education in contexts of conflict and forced displacement, including education policy, teacher well-being, student experiences of integration and inclusion, and aspirations in displacement. She has published both academic and policy-based papers on educational responses to children and young people in the Middle East, as well as in other contexts including Uganda, Bangladesh, and Somalia. She is currently writing a monograph for Oxford University Press based on her research on the educational experiences of Syrian young people across time.