Melissa is a Postgraduate Researcher at the School of Education, Communication & Society department at King’s College London. Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), her research focuses on the educational policy of access to higher education for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Melissa has previously worked in refugee education for five years at the American University of Beirut and has been involved in several research projects addressing the issue of access to quality education for refugees in the SWANA region.