School of Social Sciences

UKH Alumni Newsletter: Special Edition – International Women’s Day

The Alumni Association at the University of Kurdistan Hewler (UKH) dedicated the second issue of the second volume of UKH Alumni Newletter especially to UKH successfull women in Kurdistan and beyond. To highlight our appreciation for their accomplishments, this issue exclusively features the inspiring stories of our female graduates. Click here to read the special […]

March 8, 2024

Korean Consul General Visits UKH

Korean Consul General Seungcheol Lim visited UKH today and was warmly received by UKH President and Vice President Prof. Dr. Keith Sharp and Prof. Dr. Dana Mawlood, respectively. Both sides discussed the value of comparative studies of the economics of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and South Korea. Prof. Sharp expressed UKH’s interest and motivation […]

January 11, 2024

UKH English Literature Lecturer’s Article Wins BADS Translation Prize of the Year

Dr. Di Wu, lecturer at UKH’s School of Social Sciences (SSS) has published an article which has won the Translation Prize Winner of the Year by the British Association of Decadence Studies (BADS). Dr. Wu’s article is titled “Park Young-hee, ‘A Ward Woven with Moonlight’ (1923): A Translation with an Overview of Korean Decadence” which […]

January 3, 2024

UKH Alumni Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 5, November 2023

Issue 5 of Volume 1 of the UKH Alumni Newsletter is published by the UKH Alumni Association. This issue was published after the graduation ceremony class of 2023 was held for 283 graduates, adding to the number of UKH future leaders already involved in leading in their respective fields. This issue sheds the light on […]

November 12, 2023

UKH Alumni Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2023

The fourth issue of UKH alumni newsletter is published by UKH Alumni Association. In this issue, you can read stories from outstanding UKH alumni who tell their success stories and how they made it to the business world. You can read stories from successful entrepreneurs, marketing specialists, medical doctors and learning experts. The issue also […]

September 3, 2023

Peacebuilding, Dialogue and Heritage: Documentation of Oral Culture in the Kurdistan Region – Iraq

The University of Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH), the Centre for Peacebuilding & Dialogue (CPD), co-organised a workshop and event on ‘Peacebuilding, Dialogue, and Heritage: Documentation of Oral Culture in the Kurdistan Region – Iraq’, in UKH on June 24, 2023. Following a University of […]

June 25, 2023

English Language Course for KRG Ministry of Peshmerga

On 18 June 2023, UKH organised a closing ceremony to celebrate the achievements of 18 staff and officers from the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs (MOPA) for the 100-hour long English language course they had at UKH. This is the second year in a row that UKH partners with the Consulate General of the United Kingdom […]

June 18, 2023

Closing Ceremony of Intensive 12-Week Migration Course to UKH Students

On Tuesday May 30th 2023, the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) hosted a ceremony to mark the end of an intensive 12 weeks course titled “Migration and Displacement from a Psychological Perspective”. This course was delivered in partnership with the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The […]

May 30, 2023

Colonel Myles Caggins Lecture at UKH

Colonel Myles Caggins, former communication director and senior spokesman for Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria and former Director for Strategic Communication at the National Security Council at the White House visited UKH on Tuesday 23 May 2023.  He delivered an insightful lecture to our masters student in Diplomacy and International Law […]

May 24, 2023

UKH Signs MOU With National and Kapodistrian University of Athens to Launch MA in Leadership and Ethics Programme

The University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) has signed an agreement with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) to launch an innovative international masters programme (MA) in Leadership and Ethics. The programme will be delivered in a three-way partnership between UKH, the University of Sulaymaniyah, and the NKUA. The National and Kapodistrian University of […]

May 14, 2023