{"id":17500,"date":"2016-03-21T14:54:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=17500"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:11","slug":"undergraduate-research-spotlight-khadija-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2016\/undergraduate-research-spotlight-khadija-ahmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Research Spotlight: Khadija Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Undergraduate Research Spotlight: Khadija Ahmed\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Ahmed-Khadija_4th-year-law-and-240x199.jpg\" alt=\"Khadija Ahmed\" class=\"wp-image-17504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Ahmed-Khadija_4th-year-law-and-240x199.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Ahmed-Khadija_4th-year-law-and-160x133.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Ahmed-Khadija_4th-year-law-and.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to 1125@Carleton and its spotlight on undergraduate research conducted by <strong>Khadija Ahmed<\/strong>, a&nbsp;fourth-year student who is completing a Combined Honours in Law (with a concentration in Transnational Law and Human Rights) and Women&#8217;s and Gender studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khadija is a member of this year&#8217;s cohort of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/1125\/born-social-fellowship-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Born Social Fellowship<\/a>, a program that&nbsp;provides 10 selected Carleton students with the opportunity to participate in a four-month (January to April 2016), hands-on learning experience that applies their skill development directly to civic issues facing our community, provides local and global connections, as well as professional field experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the article &#8220;Khadija Ahmed \u2013 Harness the law to achieve social change&#8221;,&nbsp;1125@Carleton asks Khadija about her idea of social change: \u201cI see that lawyers, litigators, all the people involved with law, they fundamentally shape society. That\u2019s the way I would like to approach social change through law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khadija is also one of the students presenting Wednesday, March 23rd at the <strong>Undergraduate Showcase <\/strong>(at&nbsp;4:00 pm in River Building) as part of&nbsp;<b>FPA Research&nbsp;Month.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article on Khadija&#8217;s development and research on social innovation here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/1125\/2016\/khadija-ahmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/1125\/2016\/khadija-ahmed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to 1125@Carleton and its spotlight on undergraduate research conducted by Khadija Ahmed, a&nbsp;fourth-year student who is completing a Combined Honours in Law (with a concentration in Transnational Law and Human Rights) and Women&#8217;s and Gender studies. Khadija is a member of this year&#8217;s cohort of the&nbsp;Born Social Fellowship, a program that&nbsp;provides 10 selected Carleton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,4,552,28,5],"tags":[390,392,83,388,97,391,389,393],"class_list":["post-17500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research-news","category-student-research","category-ug-awards","category-undergraduate-news","tag-1125carleton","tag-born-social-fellowship","tag-fpa-research-month","tag-khadija-ahmed","tag-law","tag-social-innovation","tag-undergraduate-research","tag-undergraduate-showcase"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26673,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500\/revisions\/26673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}