YORK UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Its vision for 2015-2020 is “to be the leading refugee studies and forced migration research centre in North America, producing and disseminating new knowledge and critical analysis that enhances protection for and the well-being of refugees and other displaced people through policy and practice”. [...] Informed by a Feasibility Study completed in 2012, the BHER model, the backbone of this Project, combines blended teaching and learning that delivers university level certificate, diploma and degree programs to refugee and local teachers and those interested in the field of education in Dadaab. [...] The research team is currently in the process of writing a book about the BHER project with the working title Theory and practice of borderless university education: Notes from Dadaab and Kakuma. [...] 34 YORK UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT RESEARCH & INNOVATION Promotion of WUSC Refugee Sponsorship and Collaboration with WUSC Committees It has remained a priority of the project to help raise the profile of York’s World University Service of Canada (WUSC) committees, their increased refugee sponsorship commitments and to assist in the recruitment of new members given the important work. [...] iii) Undergraduate Certificate in Refugee and Migration Studies – a concentrated research and study program in the area of refugee and migration studies 37 YORK UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT RESEARCH & INNOVATION offered to York undergraduate students.