“I already have two masters…I wouldn’t have spent £100,000 for another masters.” We hear from an Indian student in #Oxford who said she was “forcibly” demoted from her #Shakespeare #PhD More with Sarah Farmer at 1330 BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight and here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I am grateful to BBC News (UK) for giving me a platform to raise concerns about University of Oxford's unjust treatment regarding my PhD on Shakespeare matter. I am also glad that @QueensCollegeOx's strong supporting statement about my case is covered in this article. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Full coverage of my story by BBC News (UK) can be viewed here. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

I appreciate some of the questions raised by the public after BBC News (UK) piece. Since I believe this is a public interest matter, I have decided to share the supporting statement of @QueensCollegeOx for the appeals process. I hope this answers some of the questions.

To provide further context to my BBC News (UK) piece and @QueensCollegeOx letter, I am sharing below the supporting statements I received for my DPhil. I also taught at @UniOxford, including about my research topic on Shakespeare. I am sharing the references I received for that below.

Grateful for the coverage by Charlotte Coles of Oxford Mail : 'The student said experts worldwide have "testified on record" that her PhD research is "ground-breaking", "field-changing", "bold, interesting and impressive"'. oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24681263.…

'I witnessed rampant academic bullying, abuse of power, petty politics& narrow minded approach at Oxford', says Indian student Lakshmi Balakrishnan who’s been transferred from PhD to masters course in an interview with@ThePrintIndia youtu.be/2vRr6Fg6SV4?si… via YouTube

Grateful to Fareeha Iftikhar & Rasmus Rasmussen for giving me a platform to discuss the following issues I faced at University of Oxford: funding (1.54), the (Shakespeare) ‘scope’ question (8.37, 13.04), racism (16.52), plagiarism of my work by 1 of the assessors (18.20), & supervision (24.07).