One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of June 17, 2026, VCSS2026 has received over 324 submissions from 68 countries and territories - including: the United States, Canada, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Thailand, Philippines, and Taiwan.
The following submissions have been accepted for presentation at VCSS2026.
Computational Social Science
- Pairwise Attraction-Repulsion Dynamics and Persistent Polarization in Multilayer Social Systems
Environmental and Health Sciences
- Mapping Climate Policy Narratives in the South Caucasus Using Computational Text Analysis
- When Industry Is Your Neighbor: Particulate Matter Exposure and Monitoring in Beaumont, Texas
- Understanding Diabetes Risk and Healthy Living Awareness Among Myanmar Merchant Seafarers
- Ethical Oversight Capacity in Tanzania: System-Level Challenges and Policy Implications for Health Research Governance
- Assessment of Macro-Plastics in Rivers and Coastal Waters in Selected Barangays of San Lorenzo, Guimaras
Globalization and Internationalization
- A Structural Model of Global Citizenship Competence and Peacebuilding in Multicultural Digital Societies
- Foreign Ownership and the Adoption of Open-Source Software: Evidence from Thailand
International Relations & Human Rights
- The Enforceability of the Right to Adequate Food
- The Language of Eroding Democracy: A Comparative CDA of Legitimisation Strategies in Geo-Political Populism of Trump, Orbán, and Saïed
- Rehumanising Social Risk in Fisheries Governance Through Participatory Visual Methods
- From Securitisation to Genocidal Warfare: Gaza as Method in a Decolonial Critique of Israel’s Counterterrorism Response Post-October 7
Technology and Applied Sciences
- The 2026 K-12 Technology Benchmarking Report: A Longitudinal Study of Canadian Independent Schools
Urban Studies
- Access and Action: Third Spaces as Everyday Preventive Health Infrastructure in Urban Wellbeing
- Power, Planning and Representation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Slum Redevelopment in Kolkata
Cultural and Media Studies
- Loneliness in the Link Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Doomscrolling Among Men from Generations X, Y, Z
- Cultural Continuity and Media Representation in Tibetan Identity Through Cinema and Digital Platforms in South Indian Contexts
- When Tragedy Becomes Punchline: Satirical Journalism, American Gaze, and the Iran Conflict in the Tonight Show
- Shared Moral Foundation Under Antagonism: The Mitigation of Polarization in Digital Game Reviews
Psychology & Social Psychology
- Family Functioning, Parent-child Relationships, and Online Game Addiction Among Malaysian Young Adolescents: A Qualitative Study
- Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance of the Family State and Family Function Scales
- Adolescent Well-Being and the Actualisation of Positive Psychology in Education: A Mixed Methods Approach
- More Than Meets the Eye: A Mixed-methods Study on the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help
- A Study of Organizational Management by Middle Management for Newcomers in a Collaborative Childcare Group with Low Turnover
- “Discrete, Masc4masc, No Fem”: Decoding Hegemonic Masculinity on a Gay Dating App in Türkiye
- Spiritual Disengagement an Inadvertent Outcome of Modern Workplaces: Argumentative and Phenomenological Inquiry into Workplace Spirituality and Spiritual Nourishment
- Formation Environment and Emotional Intelligence: an Empirical Study of Seminarians
- Promoting Self-Care Through a Forgiveness Bibliotherapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Counselors-in-Training
- Embodying Chronic Illness: Gendered Representations of Body Image Among Urban Communities in Ghana
- Examining the Interplay of Trauma and Abuse in Domestic Sexual Violence in the Philippines: Foundations for Culture-based Mental Health Interventions
Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences
- Elements of Sensory Integration in Clients with Neurodevelopmental Disorders from the Perspective of a Speech and Language Therapist
- Technostress and Knowledge Hiding in Digitally Intensive Workplaces: The Role of Work Exhaustion and Job Autonomy
Education and Social Welfare
- Charting the Course of Knowledge Management in the Digital Era: A Systematic Literature Review
- How Museums Contribute to the Formation of Students’ Citizenship Education: A Systematic Literature Review
- Young People’s Perceptions of the Youth Employment Technical Assistance (PATEJ) Training Programme in Facilitating Their Transition from Learning to Earning in Guinea
- Digital Orphanhood: A Systematic Review of the Landscape of Digital Citizenship and Civic Outcomes in Latin America
- Community-Based Educational Rehabilitation Through Decentralized Welfare Institutions: Evidence from the BUDS Initiative for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities in Kerala
Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies and Humanities
- Performing Climate Change: A Qualitative Exploration of Theatre for Development in Community Awareness and Dialogue
- Ala Kachuu Beyond Tradition: Gendered Violence and Coerced Consent in Kyrgyzstan
- Gender, Power, and Everyday Negotiation: Rethinking Leadership in Rural Haryana
- How Can the (B)ig State Handle the Biopolitical Crisis and Fix the Limits of Praxis?
- The Populist Cycle of Conflict
- Intercultural Negotiation Through Over-Tourism Tensions in Kyoto’s Trains and Buses
Demography, Human Geography & Population Studies
- Circular Mobility: Understanding Interprovincial Migration in the Philippines
- From Occupational Diversification to Deprivation: Employment Vulnerability and Multidimensional Poverty in the Stone Quarry Belt of Eastern India
Economics and Management
- Driving Organizational Performance Through People Analytics: Where AI, HR, and GRC Converge
- The Impact of Living Away from Home for Work on the Health of Male Employees in Japan
- Convergence of Firm Technology Adoption and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practices for Industrial Sustainability: An Emerging Economy
- The Economic Impacts of International Remittance on Household’s Education, Healthcare, and Consumption Expenditure: Evidence from Bangladesh
- Market Reactions to Ticker Symbol Changes: Does Company Performance Moderate Investor Response? Evidence from Thailand
- Protecting Heritage and Igniting Community Power with Gen Z’s Digital Climate Revolution
- A Regional Analysis of Credit Utilisation Efficiency in an Indian Case: A Multivariate Analytical Framework
- The Romanian Nuclear Project: A Great Economic Failure in a Period of Social Crisis and Population Impoverishment (1965-1989)
- Organisational Justice and Service-Oriented Citizenship Behaviour Among Moroccan Frontline Hospitality Employees: the Role of Organisational Trust
- The Relationship Between Ethical Climate as an Organisational Resource and Technostress Effects on Employee Well-Being
- Digital Knowledge Capabilities and Organizational Performance in an Emerging Economy: Empirical Evidence from Moroccan SMEs
- Human Capital Shock and Economic Development: Evidence from Partition of India
Politics, Public Policy, Law & Criminology
- Korea’s AI Fast-Track Textbook Policy: Risk Society, Algorithmic Governance, and Educational Inequality
- Freedom with Fear: Post-Release Psychological Trauma Among Survivors of Enforced Disappearance in Bangladesh
- The Rule of Law as an Economic Institution: Evidence from the Development of Emerging Markets
- Post-coup Community-Based Education Governance in Tanintharyi Region in Myanmar
- Legal Minds Meets AI: Exploring Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Integration in Legal Research Among Law Firms in Dasmariñas City, Cavite
- Local Violence, Global Crime: Multilevel Governance and State Capacity in Ecuador’s Security Crisis
- Enhancing Interoperability Among Government Agencies Within the Whole of Government Approach: A Systematic Literature Review
- The Limits of Normative Power Europe? AI and Digital Policy Convergence in the Western Balkans
Teaching and Learning
- Scaffolding Design Research: A Toolkit for Aligning Qualitative Research with Design Thinking
- Less Drill, More Thrill: Creativity and Collaboration in Tertiary EFL Classrooms
- Indigenous Education in MBA Ethics Teaching in Canada: A Framework for Reconciliation Focused Learning
- AI-Mediated Formative Feedback in Online Business Education
- Digital Pedagogical Mediations: A Critical Understanding of the Evolution in Foreign Language Teaching
- Large Language Models and AI Integration in Engineering Education: Empirical Evidence from the DRC and the PACE Curriculum Framework
- When Geography Becomes Irrelevant: Museums, Digital Access and Global Citizenship
- The DRIVE Model: Supporting Classroom Technology Integration Through Evidence-Informed Faculty Development
- Playful Approaches to Pedagogy in Universities, Colleges, and Polytechnics
- From Receiving to Acting: Using the C.A.R.E.R. Framework to Strengthen Students’ Use of Feedback
- Research Productivity in Selected Philippine State Universities
- The 5L Model: A Frugal Innovation Framework for Learning Media in Migrant Education
- Exploring the Role of AI in Enhancing Collaborative Learning in Educational Settings
- Preservice Teachers’ Digital Competence Development Through AI-Integrated Training Program for Learning Management
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender
- From Fear to Future: Girl’s Education in the Shadow of Terrorism in District Swat
Journalism and Communications
- Sensemaking Amid Ambiguity: Semantic Noise and Meaning Repair in Digital Recruitment Communication Systems
- Media Discourse and Affective Polarization on Migration During the 2018 Italian General Election
- Contending Media Models, Divergent Concerns: Press Coverage of the Strait of Hormuz Crisis by the BBC, Deutsche Welle, and Al-Jazeera
Research Methodologies, Quantitative and Qualitative
- The Relationship Between Employee Perception of Performance Appraisal Fairness and Work Performance
- Silence as Data: A Qualitative Methodological Framework for Analyzing Non-Responses in Sociological Interviews
Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
- Identity Crisis and Taiwanese Intellectuals: Taking Orphan of Asia as an Example
- Rethinking Caste and Social Mobility in South Asia: A Study of the Gandharva Community of Nepal
- Abyáng-Abyangán: Mixedness as a Determinant in the Endangerment of the Bulos Language in Doña Remedios Trinidad (DRT), Bulacan
- A Relational Vision for Teaching the Value of Diversity
Linguistics
- Why We Need Large-scale Language Screening Programs for Pre-schoolers, Exemplified by the German “Kindersprachscreening” (KiSS)
- Leveraging AI for Inclusive Excellence: A Longitudinal Study of MagniLearn in Higher Education as AI Reshapes Education, Instructors are Leveraging
- Cultural Perspectives on Communication: An Ethnographic Study of Language Skills
- Sign Language Recognition and Linguistic Rights of the Deaf Community in Bangladesh
- Modeling the Typological Principles of Grammar in Foreign Language Learning: A Developmental Learning Approach
- Gender Differences in Children’s German Language Skills: Medical vs. Sociodemographic Influencing Variables
- A Cognitive Pragmatic Study of Muhammad Ali Clay’s Responses in Selected Televised Interviews
Sustainability
- Placeless Climate Governance and Uneven Global Citizenship: Lessons from Africa
- Contributing Resilience: A Qualitative Inquiry in the Kaira Looro Nursery School Competition (2025) Case
- Extending the Technology Acceptance Model: The Role of Government Policy in Electric Micro-Mobility Adoption in the Philippines
- Extreme Temperature and Multi-Modal Transportation Demand: Evidence from a Subtropical Climate
Social Work
- From Erosion to Renewal: Regenerative Tourism as a Driver of Socio-Cultural Resilience
- Negotiating (in)visible Spaces of Homelessness in the Struggle for Social Change in Greece
- Barriers to Effective Social Work Practice with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors: Insights from Practitioners
- Evaluating Organizational Governance and Societal Contributions Using the ADLI Framework: A Case Study of a Higher Education Institution in Thailand
- Emerging Perspectives in Education: Addressing Cultural Lag for Global Citizenship
- Job Satisfaction and Work Life Balance Among Private School Teachers in Kerala
- Reforming Non-Contributory Disability Assessment in Albania: Historical Transformation, Bio-Psycho-Social Evaluation, and Stakeholder Perspectives
- Social Work and Women’s Empowerment in Contemporary India: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Social Development
Sociology
- Contested Surveillance: Gendered Citizenship and Political Participation in Egypt and Lebanon
- Navigating Digital Landscapes: the Influence of Social Media on Adolescents’ Psychosocial Well-Being
- Why People Obey: Identity Group Theory and the Sociology of Voluntary Regulation
- Online Gambling Platforms and the Coloniality of Digital Extraction: The Case of Bangladesh
- Sacred Spaces and Ecologies: Negotiating Ritual, Festival, Identity and Change in Indigenous Religious Practices of the Lepcha Tribe of Dzongu, Sikkim
Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
- Walking Out: Protest, Power, and Responsibility
- The Legal Status of Tibetan Refugees in India
- Depart to Comply, Protections Denied: Statutory Departure Under the INA and a Mobility-Based Critique of Consular Processing
- Determinants of the Wage Gap Among Venezuelan Migrants in Peru
- Nepal-Japan Migration Intentions Among Young Nepalese: Aspirations, Economic Pressures, and Awareness: A Pilot Study
- Findings from an Auto-ethnographic and Analytical Examination of the Australian Department of Home Affairs Asylum Decision-making Process
- Taiwan’s Chinese Nazis: Mapping Their Myth and Crisis
- A Systematic Approach to Identifying Career Management Skills and Facilitating Empowerment in the Introduction Programme for Refugees
Other
- Integrating AI in Knowledge Management
- Socio-cultural and Economic Determinants of Domestic Violence Among Married Couples in Edo State, Nigeria
- Girls Burdened and Boys Untouched: A Maternal Employment Effect on Domestic Work of Adolescent Children in India
Educational Policy, Leadership, Management & Administration
- Educational Leadership in Advancing Global Citizenship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Education / Pedagogy
- Supporting Autism Success in Regular Schools