Professor Sayed has been awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship for the three-year period 2013-2015 from The Leverhulme Trust, a foundation established in 1925 in the United Kingdom in support of scholarly research and education. The objective of the Leverhumle Trust awards is to enable distinguished academics from overseas to visit and pursue research collaborations with universities in the United Kingdom. Under this award, Professor Sayed visited Newcastle University and Imperial College, London.