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US academic withdraws from Qatar research project over racism controversy An offensive blog post from 2008 and the subsequent outrage led to NU-Q s Jocelyn Mitchell stepping away from $700,000 study People sit on a park bench along the corniche in the Qatari capital Doha (AFP) By Published date: 20 February 2021 09:15 UTC | Last update: 1 month 2 weeks ago A US academic who became engulfed in controversy in Qatar has withdrawn from a $700,000 research project funded by a government-affiliated body following sustained criticism on social media. On Tuesday, Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) professor Jocelyn Mitchell withdrew from the research team, whose aim was to study obstacles and successes of women entrepreneurship in Qatar with funding from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). ....
A professor at Northwestern University in Qatar has withdrawn from a $700,000 research project after members of the NU-Q community voiced concerns about a racist and sexist article she reposted online. NU-Q announced in January that political science Prof. Jocelyn Mitchell and two of her colleagues had received a grant from the Qatar National Research Fund to study women entrepreneurs in Qatar. In 2008, two years before she began teaching at NU-Q, Mitchell reposted an email on her blog which said “the ratio of ugly women to not so ugly women (in Qatar) is 9:1.” Screenshots of the post circulated online in November 2019, and Mitchell apologized in a community town hall and subsequently took part in anti-racism training under supervision of the University. After the post resurfaced online this month, NU-Q released a statement on Feb. 5 acknowledging that the incident “continues to cause pain in our community both within NU-Q and the wider Qatari community.” ....
(MENAFN - Gulf Times) A Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) professor has withdrawn from a $700,000 research project following an uproar over her disparaging comments about the people living in Qatar, it is learnt. In January, it was announced that the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) had awarded NU-Q professors Jocelyn Sage Mitchell and Venus S Jin, along with Hamad Bin Khalifa University professor Mohamed Evren Tok, a grant to study the obstacles and successes of women entrepreneurship in Qatar. The $700,000 grant was awarded by QNRF s National Priorities Research Programme. Since then, Prof Mitchell had been at the heart of a backlash over the inappropriate comments she had made in the past. ....
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