The Arab Council for Social Sciences is pleased to announce the launch of the eighth
round of the Research Grants Program on the topic of "Health and
Livelihoods in the Arab Region: Well-being, Fragility and Conflict".
The program includes three courses on the same topic, and this
session is the second of it. The Research Grants Program provides a funding
opportunity that aims to support research across disciplines and different
methodological approaches to major topics of interest to the Arab region.
Funding for this program comes from a grant
provided by the Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC) , the
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) , and the Andrew W.
Foundation. Melon for the Arab Council for Social Sciences.
The topic "Health and Livelihoods in the
Arab Region: Well-being, Fragility and Conflict" responds to the ongoing
economic and socio-political changes in the region, especially during the past
decade that has witnessed conflicts and unrest that led to massive displacement
and forced migration. These changes were accompanied by a sense of intense
insecurity and social injustice, especially among vulnerable or vulnerable
groups, which include refugees, displaced persons, and disadvantaged groups in
host societies. At the same time, marginalization, social injustice, and
deprivation have also spread among vulnerable groups in countries that have not
witnessed major conflicts or socio-social changes. It is therefore important to
explore and analyze the implications of these factors for health and well-being
through social science approaches.
This call encourages the presentation of
innovative research on health related to the Arab region and the health crises
and challenges raised and exacerbated by conditions of vulnerability, conflict,
fragility, and insecurity. Research proposals must be innovative, demonstrate
critical thinking, and adopt well-established approaches in the social sciences
to study health in conditions of conflict and volatile situations in the Arab
region.
Topics or research areas that the proposals
could address include, but are not limited to:
- The intersection of health and
livelihood in everyday life.
- The impact of migration
(forced, voluntary, illegal, or otherwise) on health and well-being.
- The role of the global
humanitarian system in providing health services at the national and local
levels.
- The role of culture (local, global,
and public), religion and faith, social structures and societies in
shaping, supporting or undermining health care and health insurance.
- Experiences and narratives of
fragility and resilience in the context of conflict and poverty.
- Healthcare systems: healthcare
system structures and services in the Arab region; The impact and dynamics
of global, regional, rural and urban healthcare systems.
- Biosecurity, National Sense,
and Boundaries Control: Discourses, Politics, and the Politics of Health
and Disease.
- Historical approaches to health
in the Arab region (for example: history of health practices, health and
medicine under colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial conditions).
- National policies and
conditions for health within a global, political, and economic context
(for example, neoliberalism and the privatization of health services, the
role of companies affecting health conditions and food (insecurity) food).
- Study of health from an
institutional perspective: the role of the state, NGOs, and practitioners
in defining a healthy and sick body, and the impact of health education on
societal understanding of health and well-being.
- Producing knowledge about
health, livelihood and well-being in the Arab region: types of research,
their agendas and their contents, validating international and local
health procedures and concepts, global diagnostic tools and methods for
implementing them in a local context, and developing locally established
alternative tools.
- Ethics and Profession of
Healthcare Professionals: Bioethics and the Relationship between Health
Care Providers and Patients.
- Research ethics; And research
on vulnerable groups in the context of conflict and violence.
- Pandemics, epidemics, and
endemic diseases: responses and their implications for livelihoods, health
care systems and providers, and patient experiences.
- The COVID-19 Pandemic:
Differentiated Responses in Different Environments and Their Implications
- Artistic and cultural
embodiments of medicine, health, illness and disease, care, and medical
practice.
Funding Information
- Grants are available to
individual researchers (each grant is up to a maximum of $ 20,000), research
teams (each grant is up to a maximum of $ 35,000), and active research
groups and institutions (each grant is worth a maximum of $ 50,000) who
focus their research Mainly on Arab societies.
- The duration of the scholarship
does not exceed 18 months for individuals and research teams (beginning on
June 1, 2021 and ends on November 30, 2022), and does not exceed 24 months
for active research groups and institutions (beginning on June 1, 2021 and
ending on May 30. May 2023).
Eligibility Criteria
This program is open to
individual researchers, research teams, active research groups, and
institutions. For the purposes of this invitation:
- Research teams include
researchers from institutions, geographical regions, and specializations
themselves or from different institutions, geographical regions, and
specialties, provided that they are interested in conducting
multidisciplinary research on the mentioned topic.
- The Active Research Group is an
independent and informal group of researchers who may not be registered as
an institution, but have worked collaboratively on a specific topic or
area of interest for many years. The group should have an operational
(mission) statement and set of practices or outputs that reflect its
identity and goals. Unlike research teams, which may include researchers
from one or different institutions, in active research groups, only
members of the same group are principally responsible for the research
project.
- Institutions are formal legal
entities, which may be a university or college in a university, a think
tank, a non-governmental research organization, etc.
- Research teams, active research
groups, and institutions must submit their requests within teams of no
more than four members, including the principal investigator and co-researchers.
- In the case of individuals:
researchers have:
- nationality of an Arab state
(namely , the state Arab state affiliated with the League of Arab
States),
- residents in the Arab country
for a long time, (staff five years ago , at least in an organization
based in the Arab region, And that they have produced academic work about
the region, and will continue to reside in the region and participate in
it for the foreseeable future,
- refugees and stateless persons
from an Arab country and currently residing in the Arab region.
Preference in selection will always be given to researchers currently
residing in an Arab country.
Post Date - 16-Oct-2020