One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of September 4, 2026, VCSS2026 has received over 550 submissions from 85 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
- The Emergence of the Digital University: Technology, Human Formation, and Institutional Life in Contemporary Universities
- Artificially Dreaming of Political Rights: Rethinking Awareness, Identity and Political Rights in the Age of Emotional AIs and Nonhuman Consciousness
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
- DIY Testing the Relationship Between the Price of Ready-to-Eat Vegetable Salad and the Safety Level from Pesticide Residue in Laksi
- Evaluating the Quality of EIA Reports for Filling Stations in Gauteng, South Africa
- Linking Teacher Practices and Attitudes to Student Performance in Environmental Science: Evidence from TIMSS 2023
Globalization and Internationalization
- The Team Europe Apparatus: Europeanness, Narrative, and the Reconfiguration of Development Diplomacy
- 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
- Degrees, Domesticity, and Delivery: Intersection of Income, Education, Family Life and Job Satisfaction Among the Delivery Riders in Dhaka City
- Sectoral Integration into Global Value Chains: Evidence on Employment Composition Across Countries
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
- Automated Authoritarianism: AI Surveillance and the Right to Privacy
- Metadiplomacy as Value-Based Diplomacy: Indonesia’s Diplomatic Heritage in a Divided World
- Human Trafficking, International Law, and Democratic Backsliding: Current Hurdles and Prospects for Anti-Trafficking Efforts and Reforms
- The Q’eqchi’ Mayan Language as a Tool for Accessing Justice: The Jalok U’ Collective in the Sepur Zarco Case, Guatemala
- India’s Government E-Marketplace (GeM): Architecture, Outcomes, and a Replication Framework for the Global South
- Rethinking Civil Service Reform: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Public Administration in Uzbekistan
Social History
- From Soviet Exploitation to National Standardization: the Social Evolution of the “Nuclear” Town of Ștei (1952–1989)
- Thucydides in Vienna: Classical Political Thought and the Social Science of Peace
Technology and Applied Sciences
- The 2026 K-12 Technology Benchmarking Report: A Longitudinal Study of Canadian Independent Schools
- Federated Learning for Inclusive Artificial Intelligence in Low-Income Countries: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Development
- AI-Powered Metaverse Adoption in SMEs: A DEMATEL-Based Causal Analysis of Barriers
Urban Studies
- ‘Clumsy’ Heuristics for Wicked Urban Redevelopment Challenges: A Practical Tool to Engage Stakeholder Pluralism Inclusively
- 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
- When the Cloud Lands: AI Infrastructure, Livelihood Precarity and Environmental Justice in Peri-Urban Hyderabad, India
- Does Public Transport Accessibility Affect Men and Women Differently Within the Same Household? Evidence from a Tier-II Indian City
- Assessing the Impact of Social Housing on Urban Regeneration in Gauteng, South Africa
- Administrative Decentralisation for Urban in Transition
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
- KPIs vs. Kindness: An Exploratory Case Study on the Communicative and Cultural Impact of the Ejada System at UTAS Nizwa
- Parallel Belonging: Extending Perspectives on Migrant Identity and Acculturation Across Digital and Offline Contexts
- Reclaiming Narrative Agency: The Haptic Media Interface as Counter-Archive
- The Platform Society Paradigm: Interrogating Digital Power, Culture, and Social Change in the Twenty-First Century
- Traces of Folklore in Creative Media: The Folktale Influence on Editorial Cartoons with Reference to Selected Salient Features
- When Literacy Isn’t Enough: Media Literacy, Cognitive Processing and Misinformation Detection Among Indian Diaspora Young Adults
- Mediating Climate Change Through Everyday Religiosity: Urban Muslim Mothers and Changing Media Ecologies in Indonesia
Psychology & Social Psychology
- South African Police Service Officers’ Narratives of Experiences of Tertiary Trauma Post Exposure to Secondary Victims’ Plight: Explorative Case Studies
- Identity Without Settlement: Belonging Across Physical and Digital Spaces
- Deferred Dreams: Work, Identity, and Human Flourishing in Contemporary Society
- A Qualitative Analysis of Factors Supporting Therapeutic Presence in Videoconference Psychotherapy
- When the Wound Becomes Identity: A Psychoanalytic and Literary Framework for Recognizing Resistance to Healing
- Implementation of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools in the Psychology Program at Algebra Bernays University
- Understanding User Experiences of Students with ChatGPT: A Qualitative Exploration of human-AI Interaction
- Comparative Study of Psychological Well-being and Stress Among Single Mothers and Mothers Raising Children with Special Needs
- Mobilising Community Assets: Exploring the Impact of Community Engagement to Improve the Holistic Wellbeing of People Who Have Experienced Homelessness
- Understanding Newlyweds’ Experiences of Change: A Study on the Shift from Cohabitation to Marriage
- I Just Became a Caregiver: Life Narratives of Siblings Becoming Primary Caregivers in Families Providing Long-Term Care
- 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
- “The Girls Are Lonely”: A Nursing Perspective on Community, Emotional Wellbeing, and Digital Community-Building in Post-Pandemic Society
- 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
- Bidirectional Political Socialisation in Japanese Families: Parent-Adolescent Political Discussion and Youth Political Interest
- The Disabled Self in a Globalizing World: Psychological Identity and the Fragility of Citizenship
- Social Influence and In-group Bias as Predictors of Cyber Bystander Behaviour Among Youths
- Healthcare-Related Stigma, Identity Concealment, and Psychological Distress Among Gender and Sexual Minority Individuals in South Africa
- Household Health Capability in Thai Communities: A Structural Model of Self-Efficacy, Social Support, Health Behavior, and Health Status Across Health
- Repositioning Lived Experience in Public Healthcare: Structural Inequality and Employee Wellbeing in South Africa
- A Study on the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on the Psychological Well-Being and Attachment Styles of Young Adults
- Developing a Health-Literate Community to Improve Health Behaviors and Family Well-Being Among Spouses at Risk of NCDs: Action Research
- Examining School Violence and Individual Weaponization Through Ecological Systems Theory: A Systematic Review
- Digital SEE FAR CBT Stimuli for Online Trauma Intervention: Behavioral and ERP Responses in Sexual Assault Survivors with PTSD Symptoms
- AI- Mediated Digital Platforms and Psychosocial Support Among Indian First-time Mothers: An Exploratory Study
- Impostor Syndrome and Burnout: The Protective Role of Perceived Social Support
- Personality Traits as Predictors of Work-Related Rumination Among Corporate Employees
- The Relationship Between Social Media Addiction and Sleep Quality Among University Students
- Operational Vigilance: Insights from Singapore’s Border Security Officers
- Black Trainee Clinical Psychologists’ Experiences of Racism Whilst Training: A Grounded Theory Analysis
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
- How Do Parents Shape Children’s Emotions? A Network Approach of Parental Meta-Emotion Philosophy and Children Emotion Regulation
- Simulated Bonds, Real Revenue: Virtual Influencer Monetization
- Cognitive Development of Binary Gender: Reading Symbolic Annihilation of Transgender in Childhood Behaviours
- Study of the Emotional Experience of Jealousy and Compersion in Non-Monogamous Relationships: From a Social to a Clinical Perspective
- Do We Obey Men More Than Women? Experimental Evidence on Gender Bias, Authority, and Compliance in Public Administration
- Playscapes for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Understanding the Designer’s Approach
Education and Social Welfare
- Mapping Collective Care Practices for Social Workers in the Philippines
- Educating for Financial Inclusion: Exploring Indian Women’s Digital Banking Access Through Machine Learning-Based Text Analysis
- Assessing the Impact of Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana (MKUY) on Preventing Child Marriage in Bihar, India
- Bridging the Access Gap: Technology and Affordable Higher Education in India
- Leadership Education in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Future Competencies for Ethical Leadership
- Exposure to Brainrot Content and Its Relationship with Students’s Communication and Language Use Among Senior High School Students
- Reducing Fear of Negative Evaluation Through Communicative-Based Learning Among First-Year College Students
- Explore How Rwanda Is Integrating Global Citizenship Principles into Its Educational System, Highlighting Successes, Obstacles, and Strategies for Fostering Active Global Citizens
- Teachers’ Perspective of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in the Secondary Schools’ Curriculum
- Cross-Cultural Assessment of AI Literacy: A Turkish Adaptation of the Critical Thinking in Generative AI Use Scale
- 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
- From Classrooms to Communities: Education, Social Welfare, and the Struggle for Equitable Futures in Contemporary India
- Digital Literacy Challenges Among Philippine Elementary Teachers, and Impacts on Learner Outcomes
- Integrating Artificial Intelligence Applications into Primary Science Learning for Sustainable Future Education
- Socioeconomic Vulnerability and the Role of School: A Gendered Regional Analysis of 15-Year-Olds in Eastern Europe
- It Is the Student Mind that Needs Surgery in an AI Education Theatre: Rethinking Instructional Design Approach to Material Development
- Exploring the Relationship Between Interpersonal Stress, Morning Fatigue, and Burnout Among Faculty: Case of Azerbaijan
- Twenty-First Century Skills and Graduate Employability in Higher Education Through Digital Technologies and TPACK for Sustainable Teacher Education
- Communities of Practice as Sites of Transformative Learning for Working Professionals: A Text Mining Study of University-Led Programs in Japan
- From Moral Reasoning to Ethical Action: Decision Pathways and Corruption Pressures Among Civil Engineering Students in the Philippines
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
- Lotha Naga Monolith: Tradition, Adaptation, and the Living Stone Today
- The Social and Affective Life of Organic Waste: Disgust, Decomposition, and Community Participation in Urban Waste-to-Food Systems in Indonesia
- A Poetics of Conceptuality: City-ness Through Graffiti
- The Spice of Sovereignty: Arab Culinary Legacies and Resistance to Western Culinary Imperialism in India
- Initiation Rites and Secondary School Dropout at Luntha and Umod Secondary Schools in Zomba, Malawi
- Popular Beliefs and Their Socio-Political Influence: A Historical Perspective in the Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia
- Human Becoming in an Age of Artificial Intelligence: HumanOS as an Interdisciplinary Framework for Sustainable Humanity
- The Undead and the Greedy: How Men in Chinese Digital Manospheres Use Self-Deprecating Jokes to Legitimize Unacceptable Indices of Desire
- Intersectionality, Territory, and Combating Multiple Inequalities: Limits and Possibilities of the Arariboia Social Currency as a Municipal Public Policy
- Work Culture and Subjectivity of Centennial Workers in the Context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Comparative Study Spain and Colombia
- Has Professionalization Narrowed the Intellectual Horizons of the Humanities?
- Initiation Rites and Secondary School Dropout at Luntha and Umodzi Secondary Schools in Zomba, Malawi
- Weaving Identity: Gender, Labour, and Livelihood in Handloom Craft Communities- Special Reference to Weaving Cooperative Societies in Kannur, Kerala, India
- Beyond Biomedical Menopause: Creating Alternate Forms of Knowledge Through Documentaries
Demography, Human Geography & Population Studies
- Distressed Financing of Healthcare in India: Socioeconomic Inequalities and the Role of Inpatient–Outpatient Dynamics
- 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
- When AI Threatens,Employees Hide: The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety in Linking Job Insecurity to Innovative Work Behaviour and Task Performance
- Human Capital Shock and Economic Development: Evidence from Partition of India
- Urbanization and Child Health in India: Declining Mortality but Rising Nutritional Risks
- A Helping Hand or a Gendered Burden? Daughters and Intra-household Parental Time Allocation in India
- Local Economic Inequality and the Socioeconomic Inequality Early-Life Health: Evidence from Indian Districts
- Trade Share Reallocation, Not Just Trade Decline: Sanctions Intensity and the Shift in Russia’s Trade Partners
- Tensions with China and Philippine Structural Upgrading
- AI-Human Capital Complementarity in Workplace Decision-Making
- Consumer Attention to Restaurant Price Changes and Dining-Out Expenditure: Evidence from Korea
- The Impact of Contactless Service Adoption on Business Performance and Employment: Evidence from Korean Restaurant Businesses
- The Role of Economic Infrastructure Investment in Enhancing Trade Flows: Evidence from Morocco (1990–2024)
- Workplace Narratives as Identity-Forming Mechanisms in Organizational Behavior
- From Credit to Enterprise: the Impact of Self-Help Group on Household Entrepreneurship in India
- Nexus Between Blue Economy, Renewable Energy, and Ecological Footprint in the MENA Region: A Revisit Using Panel Threshold Regression
- Inclusive Leadership and Breakthrough Innovation Among Expatriate Employees: A Knowledge Based Approach
- How European Countries Cope with Economic Crises in the 21st Century: A Comparative Cross-Country Study
- Beyond Aggregate Comparisons: Accounting for Generational Differences in Cross-Country Socio-Economic Analysis
Politics, Public Policy, Law & Criminology
- Compulsory Financial Security and Human Rights Protection at Sea: Seafarer Compensation and Repatriation in Asia
- Algorithmic Electability: Generative AI, Gendered Political Bias, and LGBTQ Candidates
- 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
- Hope, Utopia, and Politics: An Overlooked Bond
- Universal Basic Income in Mexico: An Approach with a Case Study of the Elderly Welfare Programme
- Role of Major Powers in Afghanistan: Geopolitical Rivalries, Regional Dynamics, and Strategic Implications
- A Partially Free Republic: Evaluating the Systematic Erosion of Dissent in India
- Strategic Planning and Institutional Resilience in National Emergency Management Systems: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria
- Imported Algorithms, Invisible Populations: AI Risk Assessment and the Global South Gap in Child Sexual Offence Sentencing
- State Governance and Implementation of Women’s Welfare Schemes in Sikkim Since 2019: An Analytical Study
- Mapping the Unknown Pillar of European Comprehensive Defence: Private Sector in Psychological Resilience Building. Evidence from Latvia (2019–2025)
- Determining the Law Applicable to Cloud Computing Contracts: A Comparative Analysis of Turkish and EU Private International Law
Teaching and Learning
- 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
- Exploring Continuous Coaching‑Driven Leadership Development for Executives of a Long‑Established Department Store in Japan
- Preservice Teachers’ Digital Competence Development Through AI-Integrated Training Program for Learning Management
- Effectiveness of Course Registration Systems in Higher Education: Perspectives of Academic Support Staff in the Context of Digital Universities
- Human-AI Critical Judgment Competency (HACJC): A Theoretical Framework for Graduate Education
- Preparing Future Accountants for an AI-Driven Profession: Exploring Digital Readiness for AI-Driven Accounting Information Systems
- Teachers’ Perspectives on Computational Thinking Skills in the Teaching of Coding and Robotics
- Ethical Use of AI in Design: Perspectives of Students, Faculty and Industry
- The Effects of the Gamified Simulation-Based Learning Activities Integrated with Online Applications on Student Engagement in World War History
- Development of 21st-Century Skills Among High School Students Through Leading an Academic Camp for Elementary Students: A Pretest-Posttest Study
- Spatial Hierarchy as a Framework for Promoting Human Development
- Integrating Artificial Intelligence Applications into Primary Science Learning for Sustainable Future Education in Indonesia
- Teaching Practical Laboratory-Based Chemistry in Grade 12 Advanced Classes in the UAE: Challenges and Opportunities
- AI-Driven Microlearning for Enhancing Student Engagement and Academic Success in Higher Education: A Data-Informed Approach
- Beyond Knowledge Transmission: Taiwanese Science Teachers’ Conceptions of Teaching for Self-Regulated Learning with ICT
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender
- An Organic Crisis of Capitalist Life-Making: “Cost of Living Crisis” as a Crisis of Social Reproduction
- Henrietta Cerf: The Intersectional and Scientific World of a Nineteenth Century Botanist
- Women as Catalysts of Community Empowerment: Leadership, Cultural Heritage, and Rural Innovation in Odisha’s Ikat Weaving Clusters
- From Fear to Future: Girl’s Education in the Shadow of Terrorism in District Swat
- Plural Masculinities in African Contexts: Rethinking Hegemonic Scripts
- Gendered Dimensions of Labour Migration in Albania: Towards Gender-Sensitive Migration Policy and Practice
- The Unfinished Promise of Workplace Dignity: Sexual Harassment Law, Institutional Failure, and Gender Justice in India
- Understanding the Spectrum of Theological and Practical Responses of Gender Based Violence Among Faith Based Leaders in South Africa
- The Person Behind the Robe: Unveiling the Hidden Experiences of Pastors in Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Church Settings
- The Visual Language of Queerness: Symbolism and Identity in South Asian and Diasporic Art
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
- Artificial Intelligence as an Algorithmic Actor: Transforming Knowledge, Power, and Public Relations Practice (2020-2025)
- Migration Literacy: Digital Media Driven Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes Towards Migration to Europe from the Horn of Africa
- Mediatization of Social Media in Indonesian Local Online Media
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 among Taiwanese Intellectuals: Orphan of Asia as a Case Study
- 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
- The Petak Umpet Resilience Model: Navigating Economic Apartheid and Reclaiming Pedagogical Agency in the Global South
- A Relational Vision for Teaching the Value of Diversity
- Unsung Heroes and Heroines of Ethnic and Border Communities in South Africa Who Sustained the Liberation Struggle: A Comparative Analysis
- Nature as Deity: Sacred Ecologies in the Indigenous Faith Traditions of Assam
- Analysis of the Dynamics of Political Processes in the Amudarya Border Region
- The Hidden Cost of Workplace Exclusion: Organisational Cynicism Among LGBTQ Employees
- The Contemporary Identity of Bulgarian Citizens as a Hybrid Construct – Between the National, the European, the Ethnic and the Local
- Ethnic Renewal, Boundary Making and Struggle for Tribal Recognition in North-East India
Linguistics
- The Tagamoa Accent Through Agha’s Enregisterment Framework
- Lexical Innovation in Digital French: The Integration of English Social Media Vocabulary into French Lexicon
- A Deeper Dive into the Formulation of a Multilingual Language Policy Implementation Plan in Institution of Higher Learning
- 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
- 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
- Gen Z and Foreign Language Learning in the Age of AI: A Comparative Study of Traditional and Technology-Assisted Learning Preferences
- Affirming Translanguaging, Practising with Caution: Tutors’ Experiences and Stance at a South African University
- From Erasure to Scaffolding: an AI Framework for the Preservation of Linguistic Threads in Formulaic Language Learning
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
- Sustainable Futures and the Crisis of Modernity: Reimagining Human Responsibility in the Age of Climate Anxiety
- Navigating the Twin Transition: How Regional Ecosystems and Firm Capabilities Drive Green and Digital Innovation in European Manufacturing SMEs
- Examining and Strengthening the Sustainability of School Feeding Programme in ECE and Primary Schools: A Case of Bauleni Special Needs Project and Mulenje Primary School in Lusaka Province
- From Cultural Preservation to Community Empowerment: Developing a Multi-Stakeholder Framework for Sustainable Community-Based Tourism
- Handblock Printing of Pipad: Driving Sustainability Through Economic Empowerment
- Why Do Consumers Resist Alternative Proteins? A Hierarchical Analysis of Adoption Barriers in India
- Reimagining Industrial Landscapes Through Urban Agroforestry for Nature-Positive Development
- Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures and Climate Justice: A Human Rights Framework for Data Center Governance in the Global South
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
- 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
- Social Work, Community Resilience and Sustainable Development in Contemporary India
- The Relationship with the Other from the Perspective of Probation Officers Working with Foreigners in Poland
- Oncology Social Work Interventions with Muslim Migrant Women with Gynecological Cancer in Australia
- Recruitment Policy and Employees’ Performances at Action Africa Help International South Sudan Program
- How Do People with Alcohol Use Disorder Move Toward Abstinence? A Qualitative Study of Recovery Facility Directors on the Contemplation-to-Action Transition
Sociology
- Perceptions and Readiness of Students with Disabilities on Digital Learning in Malaysian Higher Education
- 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
- The Moral Economy of Wealth and Redistribution in Poumai Naga Community
- Family Secrets, Hidden Struggles: Complicity, Rape and Gender-based Violence in the Rural Eastern Cape
- Conjugal Power Relations and Couples’ Participation in Reproductive Health Decision-Making: A Study in Selected Areas of Dhaka City
- The Unbeliever’s Dilemma: Negotiating Atheist Identities in the Shadow of India’s Religio-Moral Order
- The Death of Distance and the Birth of Proximity: Hybrid Work and the Reconfiguration of Urban Sociality
- Economic Irrational Syndrome (EIS): A Three-Layer Causal Model and Five-Phase Framework for Economic Decision-Making
- Crowd Psychology and Loss Aversion in an Enclosed Theme Park
- What If Intelligence Looks Like Survival?: Human Cognitions and the Shadow of Precarity
- Care, Affection, and Emotional Labour: What Artificial Intelligence Cannot Replicate, According to Costa Rican Caregiver
- Living Through Technology: Everyday Life, Consumerism, and Environmental Denial: A Sociological Analysis
- From Beneficiaries to Co-creators: Urban Agroforestry as a Social Innovation Platform for Community Resilience
- Evidence-Based Policy Recommendations for Infant and Maternal Health Promotion: Solutions for Diaper Need
Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
- Between Staying and Returning: How Temporary Protection Fosters and Hinders Integration at the Same Time
- 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
- Supporting Immigrant Women to Employment: Experiences from Collaboration Between the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration and Immigrant Organizations
- Mentor as a Catalyst for Onboarding in the Health Sector: A Case-study from Integration Work in Norway
- The Evolution of the Human Right to Adequate Housing in Taiwan: Immigrant Integration, Judicial Practice, and Comparative Reflections
- Women’s Migration in Southwestern Coastal Bangladesh: A Gendered Perspective
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
- Implementation Challenges of Omnichannel Order Management Among Small Food Cart Businesses: Implications for Business Operations
- Rule, and the Struggle for Order in Post-Gaddafi Libya
- Beyond Written Archives: Oral Poetry, Praise Songs, and Environmental Memory
- Legal Awareness and Access to Legal Assistance Among Overseas Filipino Workers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Data Privacy and Consent in Wearable IoT Fashion Products Targeting Health Monitoring
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