Francesca Vawdrey is a doctoral scholar at University of Cambridge, specialising in Palestinian literature. Prior to embarking on her doctoral programme, Francesca was a researcher at the Royal Hashemite Court in Amman, Jordan, where she worked on refugee empowerment and environmental issues in the West Asia region. She holds an MPhil with Distinction in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from University of Oxford and was previously a Peace Advocacy Fellow at the Balfour Project.