Abstract Arab social science scholarship, and IR in particular, has been systematically underfunded sidelined by governments across the region. As such, scholars world have struggled to produce scholarship hostile authoritarian environments, let alone address efforts decolonise. Of few initiatives of indigenising that exist world, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) its founding institutio...

This article explores the short-term and (potential) long-term influences of COVID-19 on urban China its governance, which was characterised by increasing mobilities delocalised societies before outbreak. Through analysis 18 observation reports in 16 cities, it is revealed that outbreak enables government to (re-)build a location-based management system with participation residents facing pande...

Recently, designers have started using digital fabrication to create new solutions meet global challenges. However, many technology projects in the humanitarian and development sector been criticised for failing deliver sustainable solutions. This study responds these concerns by investigating sustainability of sector. A systems approach is used synthesise knowledge from 14 healthcare, educatio...

The recent move of public health back to English local government has reignited debates about the role of a medicalised public health profession. The explicit policy rationale for the move was that local government is the arena in which the social determinants of health can be addressed, and that public health specialists could provide neutral evidence to support action on these. However, if a ...