The Kuwait Program is a multi-disciplinary research program that focuses on issues of importance to Kuwait and the region such as healthcare and urban development. It aims to establish collaborative research partnerships between LSE and researchers and research institutions in Kuwait to produce and publish high quality academic research. The program organizes exchanges between LSE and Kuwaiti academics and policy makers to facilitate knowledge exchange, intellectual capacity and career development.

Academic Collaborative Research

The Kuwait Programme annually funds two academic collaborative research projects in social, political, and economic sciences between researchers at LSE and at universities and research institutions in Kuwait. 

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Short-Term Fellowships

The Kuwait Programme offers annually 2 Short-Term Fellowships at LSE that target Kuwait-based researchers. The Fellowship will enable the successful candidates to pursue research relevant to the Kuwait Programme for between two and three months. As part of this fellowship, the Fellows will be required to write a research paper which will be considered for publication by the Kuwait Programme.

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