Shayma Bakht is a fellow of the John Schofield Trust. She is a multi award-winning journalist at The Times who has reported from across Asia and the Middle East. She has worked on high-risk dispatches – including an undercover expose from Saudi Arabia and reporting from the West Bank, Syria and Yemen during wartime. Her investigation into the Homes for Ukraine scheme triggered the UNHCR to issue a stark warning to the UK government and won her Young Journalist of the Year at the 2023 Press Awards.