This chapter examines the parallels between the Right to Food and the Right to Water within the context of international human rights, trade, and investment law, arguing that both rights face similar challenges due to the fragmentation between human rights provisions and economic laws.

Considers whether humanitarian aid or long-term recovery should be prioritised in post-Assad Syria, and proposes a response model built on local leadership, diaspora engagement, and reduced international dominance

Examines the determinants of Gen-Z’s intention to adopt and use personal electronic health records (PAEHRs) in Turkey, highlighting the effects of social influence, performance expectancy, privacy concerns, and trust in the health system.

Evaluates the impact of behavioral interventions on tobacco consumption in an ultra-poor rural area in Bangladesh, where traditional policy tools like taxation and warning labels are often ineffective.

Investigates the security and trust challenges organizations face in implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) networks and explores existing and emerging solutions to address these issues.

Explores the rise of cybercrime as a pervasive form of gender-based violence in Bangladesh, with specific attention to its impact on women and girls’ safety, social reputation, and access to online spaces, highlighting challenges in legal and social responses.

Analyzes the discrimination, exclusion, and legal barriers transgender individuals face across Asia, exploring varied regional attitudes, policies, and cultural perspectives toward transgender rights, and proposing recommendations for policy reform and improved data representation.

Explores the complex evolution of queer culture and LGBTQ+ rights in Poland since the early 2000s, with particular emphasis on the impact of nationalism, Catholic influence, and Polish identity on LGBTQ+ visibility and activism.

Investigates the impact of the Nobody’s Listening VR exhibition on Iraqi participants’ understanding, emotional connection, and empathy for the Yazidi genocide, and explores the exhibition’s potential as a tool for human rights advocacy and education.

Examines how storytelling workshops can foster patient-public involvement in breast cancer research, providing insight into patient perspectives on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery

Analyzes trends and socioeconomic inequalities in the co-coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) interventions and examines associations with stunting, wasting, and minimum dietary diversity (MDD) among children in Ethiopia.

Examining the relationship between cocoa production and children’s work in Ghana, particularly differentiating types and intensities of work and comparing cocoa with other agricultural activities.

Examining the interaction and effectiveness of truth-seeking and criminal justice mechanisms in the Liberian (2005) and Kenyan (2008) transitional justice processes, with attention to complimentarity of truth seeking and criminal accountability in the two jurisdictions and contexts.

This research investigates the evolution, structural challenges, and political dynamics affecting Zimbabwe’s local government systems, detailing the impacts of central government interference, political conflicts, and resource limitations on local governance.

Examining how the use of audiovisual aids, particularly videos, influences motivation and language acquisition among French language learners in selected Ghanaian high schools.

Understanding how the brain separately processes value by assessing others’ confidence, distinct from firsthand experience, to illuminate social influences on decision-making.

Examining the integration of Industry 4.0 technologies with circular economy practices to enhance sustainable development in MENA countries, focusing on Egypt as a case study for implementing national policy frameworks to address environmental and industrial challenges.

Analysing the impacts of economic complexity, income, globalization, and non-renewable energy use on environmental sustainability in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, with the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis.

Exploring anthropology’s future as a discipline bridging local ethnographic understanding and global insights while re-evaluating ethical commitments and expanding its role in addressing contemporary challenges.

Investigating how intersecting factors of ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and geography shape healthcare-seeking behaviours of rural ethnic women in northern Bangladesh, specifically among Santal communities.

This study presents a practical, card-based toolkit designed to improve nontechnical participants’ understanding of AI concepts, empowering them to actively participate in co-design sessions for AI development.

This study examines how adolescents in Tamale, Ghana, use social media to access reproductive health information and services, analyzing factors influencing utilization, usage patterns, and associated challenges.

This study evaluates whether educational interventions can enhance adherence to a training monitoring program among recreational athletes, and examines the effect on burnout, stress, and recovery while exploring athlete perspectives.

This paper critically examines the Ratification of Foreign Agreements by Parliament Bill once debated in the Pakistan’s Senate. It emphasises the need for stronger parliamentary oversight in treaty ratification and withdrawal processes, arguing that such oversight is essential for ensuring the democratic legitimacy and accountability of foreign agreements.

This study explores the gender dynamics in Pakistan’s real estate sector through the lens of intersectional feminist economics, focusing on systemic barriers such as cultural norms, financial exclusion, and gender biases. It introduces the FemRestate framework to promote gender equality and empowerment within real estate entrepreneurship.

This research investigates how cyberspace, particularly social media, has become a key platform for the expression and mobilization of xenophobic sentiments and actions against African migrants in South Africa.

This paper investigates whether Africa has regional hegemons, using South Africa and Nigeria as case studies, and explores whether group hegemonic leadership better explains regional hegemonic behavior in Africa.

This pilot report evaluates the effectiveness of the Unlearning Intervention, which aims to mitigate gender bias and gender-based violence in Pakistan’s educational institutions by addressing the cognitive heuristics that sustain these biases.

This chapter critiques the power-centric approach to conflict prevention, arguing that it often fails to protect civilians effectively. Yet this power-centric approach is often consider as a natural approach to conflict due to the hegemonic conception of masculinity security discourse. The naturalisation of hegemonic masculinity in security affairs leads to an emphasis of the use of power and militaristic strategies.

This report examines the control, relations, and permeability of the borders between Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, focusing on actors of control, patterns of border openings and closings, and issues of corruption and violence.

This research tries to assess Iraq’s attempt to democratise away from the shadow of the U.S. invasion.

My research examines corruption in Iraq, which is a highly corrupt country in terms of human rights. High corruption levels have persisted for years, especially since the collapse of the regime in 2003

The paper tries to falsify the argument that identity politics is declining in Iraq. It argues that the alleged decline in identity politics is not a true change happening in politics in Iraq. Group needs and demands are still there, and have still not been addressed. The dominant socioeconomic needs, in my view, has only temporarily masked identity politics.

This research talks about the period before and after ISIS. It focuses on how we can change the conflict between tribes and between people in Anbar to attain peace.

My book explored Iraq’s modern history and the fundamental issues that have shaped its political development. It has a chronological approach, starting in the Ottoman period and looking at how the state was created after the First World War.

This paper focuses on how the role of the local police is perceived in two districts in Mosul: Hay al-Tanak, a Sunni neighborhood in the west side of Mosul. And Hamdaniya, which is a multi-ethnic district with 80% Assyrian Christian and other minorities.

The research paper zooms in on the perspectives of young urban university students across the Kurdistan region of Iraq. We focus on young people (mostly university students) from four urban localities (Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok, and Halabja). Our aim was to understand their perspectives about the purpose and quality of education, and the challenges they face.

This research is a comparative study of two of Iraq’s leading media platforms (in terms of reach) newsroom practices, which is the government broadcaster and the main privately owned, leading television channel, Al Sharqiya.

This research paper posits that integrating storytelling-based practices, such as restorative justice dialogue and restorative education, within Iraq’s legal and educations systems can promote an inclusive, cross-communal public discourse and facilitate bottom-up and inclusive peacebuilding practices to counter decades-long elitist, top-down, empty reconciliation efforts.

This research focused on the transitional justice programmes in Iraq since 2003 to now. But it has not been successful, since we still have victims and survivors who have not experienced justice or resolution. Women’s empowerment is a key focus of the research, as gender norms and restrictions on women’s rights have been exacerbated by extremism and long periods of conflict.

Based on merged data from the World Value Survey and Arab Barometer data from 2010 to 2018 in Iraq, this research examined civic cultural attitudes. So it looked at whether there was a correlation between trust in institutions and staying informed on politics, and the effect of these variables on support for a democratic system versus an autocratic system.

My book documents the impact of the 2003 invasion on the civilians of Iraq up until 2019. It examines the civilian cost and the patterns of violence caused by the alleged ‘War on Terror’.

Through the 2003 Iraq occupation, this book demonstrates the journey of ideology from corporate elite networks through to national security strategy and finally, how this looks as policy and actual decision-making on the ground. The book shows the level of involvement US corporate elites had in their own privatisation agenda in Iraq, which thus created a similar elitist Iraqi political system.

My book looked into track records of 35 UN peacekeeping operations and unilateral operations, and assessed problems of violence.

This began as a health systems project to look at resilience policy discourse in the context of Nepal, but instead it found a disconnect between well-intentioned policymakers and the people most affected by the 2015 earthquake

This research explored the Chinese construction of Lesotho’s parliament building, focusing on how it was done.

It was about making visible some of the challenges and the gender-based violence that women construction workers in Sylhet faced due to being perceived as ‘bodies out of place’, and how opportunities to develop their creative skills not only enhanced self-worth but also enabled them to build a social enterprise.

The research examines the differences between a primarily Bangkok Establishment sample and a middle class Thai Lao educator sample on the socioeconomic and political inclusion of the Thai Lao, who face unacknowledged structural inequalities. Furthermore, it prescribes policies to promote inclusion.

Our research centred on HIV policy adoption in Zimbabwe and its related implementation within health facilities. We compared health facility data at two time points to examine changes in service provision, and assess whether there was a noticeable increase in the number of patients receiving HIV care and treatment

This article examines gender, class and age as variables – and shows how these variables can significantly impact the adaption for climate resistant crops. In Vietnam, as women do most the farm labour, by not listening including women, policies and initiatives will fail.

Indigenous knowledge from elders and farmers on extreme weather must be integrated and considered alongside expert knowledge seasonally, and Zambian agriculture policy must consider this knowledge.

Gender discrimination in Nepal is perceived differently by different socio-demographics background groups, and some socio-demographics background group have lack awareness that they are being discriminated against.

Our findings illustrate the stark contrast and health inequities between trans and non-binary people and the general population, especially in the areas of mental health and wellbeing, including the very high rates of psychological distress and suicide attempts within our communities.

Trafficked women are entitled to self-respect, human rights and dignity. They should be treated like any other person and are capable of exercising their own agency

This research examines explicit and implicit ways women’s leadership bodies are gendered. I interrogate the visibility of women in leadership positions and the performance of gender.

Self-worth training can support marginalised people to escape pschological aspects of the poverty trap, and needs to be considered alongside material aspects when designing programmes to alleviate poverty.

My research is on how immigration policies in Britain impact migrants psychologically and emotionally, and what kind of policies can be formulated to ensure their perspective on British society remain positive.

Digital technologies are increasingly being used as tools for the perpetration of domestic violence. Little empirical research to date has explored the nature and impacts of technology-facilitated domestic violence, and even less attention has been paid to the experiences of immigrant and refugee women.

This work explores the role of sex-integrated martial arts and combat sports in challenging sexist understandings of gender.

This research considers the exclusionary nature of gendered language within entrepreneurship training and education in universities.

This research draws attention to where the law is denying decision-making on the basis of gender, and closely examines women, disabled women and gender minorities.

This work considers how the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda can better include LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and queer) voices in gender, peace and security initiatives. Central to including lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in WPS is confronting heteronormativity and cisprivilege.