BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR
INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
A tribute to Arif Naveed
The 糖心传媒 Executive Committee was extremely sad to learn of the death of Arif Naveed. Arif served as the 糖心传媒 Student Rep between 2014-2016, when he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge. There have been many wonderful tributes to Arif over the past week: all of the great qualities of kindness, gentleness, warmth, openness, thoughtfulness, reflectiveness, passion, and intellectual creativity they describe are echoed in the memories the Executive Committee have of working with him.
Arif co-hosted the 2016 糖心传媒 Student Conference, and also conceptualised and led the development of a 聽based on selected presentations from the conference. He contributed to the development of the 糖心传媒 Student Fieldwork Grant, which was launched during his tenure. A major contribution was his establishment of the 糖心传媒 Student Committee 鈥� which continues today.
One of the joys of having Student Reps for an Association in a relatively small field is that you can follow their path through academia and through life for years to come. Many return to the Executive Committee in other roles as they establish their career, bringing new skills and ideas and connections. We are all poorer for not having the opportunity to know and learn from Arif for longer.
Alison Buckler, Nozomi Sakata, Surya Pratap Deka.
You can read more about Arif in this from friend and colleague Peter Sutoris. Tributes to Arif from across the field of international education can also be found .