- Middle East Politics and Society
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Public Spaces through Art
- Critical Theory and Political Philosophy
- Political theory and Gramsci
- Communism, Protests, Social Movements
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Socioeconomic Development in MENA
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Turkey's Politics and Society
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
Queen Margaret University
2019-2024
University of Edinburgh
2014-2017
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) disproportionately affect people living in fragile contexts marked by poor governance and health systems struggling to deliver quality services for the benefit of all. This combination can lead erosion trust system, affecting health-seeking behaviours ability individuals sustain their health. In this cross-country multiple-case study, we analyse role NCD contexts. Our analysis triangulates multiple data sources, including semi-structured interviews (n = 102)...
Changes to the labour process in home credit sector have exposed industry’s agency workforce increased levels of digital managerial control through introduction lending applications and algorithmic decision-making techniques. This article highlights heterogeneous nature impact digitalisation on worker autonomy – specifically, terms workers’ engagement unquantified emotional labour. By considering limitations relation qualitative elements process, it becomes evident that has scope be a source...
For asylum route refugees, the existence and persistence of structural barriers to navigating statutory systems are well-documented. Even when initial overcome, further transitions may disrupt refugees’ lives. One such is arrival in UK family members from whom they had been separated during their flight persecution. This paper draws upon data gathered using a Social Connections Mapping Tool methodology with reunited refugee families make three contributions field studies. Firstly, families’...
Abstract Refugees can be formed as “subjects” they navigate forced displacement in countries that are not their own. In particular, everyday life the politicized Other, and humanitarianism’s depoliticized beneficiary, constitute them political subjects. Understanding these produced subjects subjectivities leads us to conceive of – or “refugeedom” a human condition experience (sub)alterity, within which inhere distinctive subjectivations subjectivities. Drawing on fieldwork Beirut, Lebanon,...
Refugeedom and its various politicisations, as a complex human experience of political alterity, poses unique challenges for the visual aesthetics refugee subjecthoods subjectivities. In contrast to media humanitarian visualities, aesthetic engagement with what is contentiously referred 'refugee art' might have potential create more possibilities open new subjective spaces by enabling different epistemic access experiences refugeedom's constituted subjects. We turn Jacques Rancière's...
Abstract One of the defining features home credit sector is role played by its agents—workers who act as intermediaries between lending companies and borrowers to facilitate collect repayments. There a prevailing pervasive narrative in that women make superior agents, largely based on belief female agents can manage relationships with more successfully than their male counterparts. This article analyzes data from 349,078 accounts (loans), well 71 interviews company managers, evaluate both...
scholar Terry Flew draws on a breadth of literature to gauge the degree which it would be possible conceive creative industries as truly global in scale.This examination is undertaken through six chapters: 1) Industries, 2) Production, 3) Consumption, 4) Markets, 5) Places, and 6) Policies.Throughout book, upon wide range concepts traditions, well various case studies, attempts pool them coherently under umbrella global.In "Industries," first chapter compares categorizations industries, such...
"Studies of video practices: Video at work edited by Mathias Broth, Eric Laurier, and Lorenza Mondada." Visual Studies, 32(1), pp. 91–92