Understanding media in paths of political change: the case of the Arab Spring
Understanding media in paths of political change: the case of the Arab Spring

The ongoing democratic backsliding in the Middle East and North Africa questions the promises brought by the Arab revolts on rights, dignity and a democratic governance in the region. They also give ground to those who argue for an incompatibility between the region and the very notion of democracy. The meagre gains in structural reforms, some of them are mere cosmetic change, empowered a return to a nationalistic discourse that frames change as a danger to the stability, national security and even the national identity. It is not a surprise to see a triumph of the nostalgia of old days, including former dictators, perceived as a safer option, despite their legacies of crimes and human rights violations. The ongoing counterrevolutions are empowered by a vicious use of new media, turned from a tool of liberation to a weapon of indoctrination, disinformation, and surveillance.

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma Arshadmedia, media & commuications, politics, Middle East, North Africa
Does the elderly population have available and accessible telehealth solutions during the Covid-19 pandemic?
Does the elderly population have available and accessible telehealth solutions during the Covid-19 pandemic?

Telehealth is the delivery of healthcare services by healthcare professionals through information and communication technologies, where distance separates between the participants. During the last years, with the impressive development of the Internet and communication infrastructure, telehealth has become a convenient and safe method for patients to obtain reliable information and medical consultation.

There are many benefits in using telehealth, especially in routine care and in cases where a direct patient-healthcare provider interaction is not mandatory.

Since December 2019, the world has been facing an epidemic threat to global health, caused by a novel coronavirus, “SARS-CoV-2".

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma ArshadSARS-coV-2, telehealth, Healthcare, COVID-19
How Do Human Resource Management Practices Affect Innovation?
How Do Human Resource Management Practices Affect Innovation?

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are one of the engines for inclusive economic growth. Yet little is known about the contribution of human resource management (HRM) practices to the success of SMEs. This study empirically examines how HRM practices determine different categories of innovation of SMEs in the context of a transition economy.

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ResearchDeepa LintoHuman Resource Management, Vietnam, Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Transition Economy
Connecting Research and Reality – Where is the bridge?
Connecting Research and Reality – Where is the bridge?

Most of us got into academia because we wanted to contribute to society – whether directly through applied subjects or indirectly through the system of knowledge production (which may then feed back into practical applications). The realm of research is indeed thriving with progress made in terms of interdisciplinary work, and increasing inclusivity and decolonialisation efforts. Unfortunately, these progress parallels growing gap between research and the community. Our ivory tower is somehow getting higher and higher.

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma ArshadSussex Hive, research hive, university of sussex
Race and the Probability of Becoming a Head Coach for the National Football League
Race and the Probability of Becoming a Head Coach for the National Football League

I’ve never had good timing. I buy stocks before a crash, I start binging a new TV series just as it’s erased from public consciousness, but, for once, my timing was impeccable. On February 1st, my coauthors (Josh Pitts and John Johnson) and I published a paper in The Review of Black Political Economy. The paper aimed to determine if there is racial bias in the hiring process of NFL Head Coaches. That same day, former Miami Dolphins Head Coach, Brian Flores, filed a lawsuit against the NFL and three NFL franchises alleging racial discrimination in the hiring process of NFL head coaches. Talk about good timing…

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma Arshadrace, NFL, national football league
Connecting the Disconnected: The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Women’s Livelihood Restoration
Connecting the Disconnected: The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Women’s Livelihood Restoration

In Chennai, Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (DIDR) pushes the urban poor to resettlement sites in the outskirts of the city. One of those sites is Kannagi Nagar, located 15 km from the city centre, in which women suffer from more significant livelihood deprivation. As there is evidence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) being useful in development, this study aims to explain the role of ICT in the livelihood restoration and enhancement of the social and financial capital for women in Kannagi Nagar.

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ResearchDeepa LintoICT, Resettlement, Chennai, Urban poor, Livelihood restoration
Making the Invisible Visible
Making the Invisible Visible

For far too long, LGBTQIA+ individuals have been absent from the halls, curricula, and conversations of K-12 classrooms. The unfortunate truth is that, even in 2022, queer individuals remain de-centered in educational spaces. This de-centering makes it hard for queer youth to envision a world where they thrive. In society, we have allowed our educational spaces to remain unwelcoming, and often hostile, towards the LGBTQIA+ community because of our own discomfort and biases. For some queer youth, this act of hostility costs them their lives.

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma ArshadLGBT+, LGBT, LGBTQIA+
February 28th is Rare Disease Day – A day on which the rare disease community shouts to all that can hear RARE IS MANY, RARE IS STRONG, RARE IS PROUD!
February 28th is Rare Disease Day – A day on which the rare disease community shouts to all that can hear RARE IS MANY, RARE IS STRONG, RARE IS PROUD!

But what does that mean? Rare diseases are not rare? Rare is many - There are over 7,000 different rare diseases that have been identified and that number is growing. Collectively, in the United States 25-30 million people, over half who are children, have a rare disease. That is 1 in 10 people have a rare disease – this is almost as many people as have diabetes, and more people than have cancer, HIV, and Alzheimers combined.

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma Arshadrare disease day, rare disease, disease
Urban Flood Risk Assessment and Development of Urban Flood Resilient Spatial Plan for Bhubaneswar
Urban Flood Risk Assessment and Development of Urban Flood Resilient Spatial Plan for Bhubaneswar

Urban flooding is growing as a serious development challenge for cities. Urbanization demands the conversion of pervious land to impervious land by pushing the transformation of water bodies, flood plains, wetlands and green spaces into built-up spaces. This affects the hydrological setting of the city’s geographic area. This article explores various avenues for making a flood resilient city through spatial planning. To understand the flood and its consequences, a flood hazard and vulnerability map was prepared by overlaying the existing social and infrastructure networks, and flood risk zones were generated through analytical spatial modelling in GIS.

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ResearchDeepa LintoUrban Flood, Resilient city, spatial planning, Land use planning
Interview with Open Access Monograph Author Dr. Bill Edgar
Interview with Open Access Monograph Author Dr. Bill Edgar

Bailey: I understand that you wrote this monograph with a couple of different audiences in mind. Tell us about your target audiences and how this work addresses their needs.

Bill: We wrote this monograph for two audiences. The first is researchers, primarily faculty members, in management, especially strategic management. The second is key executives, managers, and intellectual leaders within corporations. We intend this monograph to serve both academics and professional managers simultaneously. As we mention in the Introduction, we hope we have made the monograph sufficiently conceptual to support academics’ research on core competencies and sufficiently practical to support managers’ understanding and application of core competencies.

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Research, Editor's PicksMoazzma Arshadmonograph, interview, Open Access, open access week
Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction on Turnover Intentions and Job Mismatch Among Millennial Employees
Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction on Turnover Intentions and Job Mismatch Among Millennial Employees

The millennials have become the largest cohort in the workforce, and their retention has become challenging for policymakers and organizations. Millennials are career-oriented and are ready to switch jobs if there is a mismatch in skills and job requirement. The purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating role of job satisfaction on turnover intention and job mismatch among millennial employees in Bengaluru.

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ResearchDeepa LintoMillennial, Mediation, Overeducation
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science

In celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke to Dr Leigh Hoath (author & Senior Professional Practice Fellow at Leeds Trinity University) and Heena Dave (author & secondary science teacher). What do they have in common other than both being women in science? They are SAGE authors, they both have – and continue to - challenge stereotypes and they both have important things to say about what it is like being a woman working in science. We asked them to put some words together around their experience in their field and here’s what they had to say…

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ResearchMoazzma ArshadGirls in science, International day of women
‘The Magical Train’ - The Original Hospital Train Reaching the Unreachable, Providing Excellent Healthcare to Rural India
‘The Magical Train’ - The Original Hospital Train Reaching the Unreachable, Providing Excellent Healthcare to Rural India

India still being a developing country has majority of people living in rural areas where quality healthcare is not only difficult to avail but sometimes even hard to access. In such circumstances, an initiative like Lifeline Express (LLE) has provided the people with access to quality healthcare which has been crucially needed. It is a very simple idea but incredibly complex in terms of execution throughout the whole region. The LLE is a hospital which moves throughout rural India in a form of a fully equipped train.

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ResearchDeepa LintoRural Health Care, Medical Services, India, Lifeline Express, Hospital Train
Dimensions of Psychological Well-being and Subjective Happiness in the New Normal: An Exploration
Dimensions of Psychological Well-being and Subjective Happiness in the New Normal: An Exploration

The pandemic has brought in unprecedented changes in societies across the globe. It has altered the equilibrium and forced individuals to move out of their comfort zone, leading to disturbance in psychological well-being in the new normal (Kuster, 2021). This empirical study examines the effect of psychological well-being (PWB) on subjective happiness (SH) of students of higher educational institutions (HEIs) during the global pandemic.

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ResearchDeepa LintoPsychological well-being, New Normal, Higher Education, pandemic, happiness
What does professionalism mean for today’s GPs?
What does professionalism mean for today’s GPs?

Like any doctor, I am humbled to be considered a member of the “world’s most trusted profession”. However, this headline does not reflect the professional challenges that GPs are currently facing. Providing the high-quality care expected from society and upholding public trust have become increasingly challenging. In our recent InnovAiT article, we examined some of the main professional dilemmas affecting GPs today. This blog shares my personal views on some of these issues and expands further on the case scenarios in the article.

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Research, Editor's PicksMoazzma Arshaddoctor, GP, general practice, InnovAiT, professionalism
Adding Plain Language Summaries to Support Research that Address Social Inequities
Adding Plain Language Summaries to Support Research that Address Social Inequities

As part of SAGE’s mission of building bridges to knowledge and commitment to fostering a more inclusive and diverse publishing community, SAGE Journals is adding Plain Language Summaries (PLS), or nontechnical abstracts, as an option authors can add to their articles for select journals participating in the pilot. The summaries will appear wherever abstracts are available (just below the abstract) and are open to all readers. As an initial priority, SAGE’s goal is to add the PLS function to a limited trial of journals that highlight research representing oppressed, marginalized or otherwise silenced communities.

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Author Services, ResearchMoazzma ArshadDEI, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, SAGE, PLS, Plain Language Summary
AIRLINES AND VACCINES: STILL AN OXYMORON… OR NOT?
AIRLINES AND VACCINES: STILL AN OXYMORON… OR NOT?

This research emerges from the need to shed light on the ongoing debate about vaccine passport policies for dealing with COVID-19. We analyze the way two essential airline stakeholders assess vaccine passports: investors—for whom the following question is posed: Is the implementation of vaccine passports positively evaluated by airline investors?—and passengers, for whom the question to be examined is To which extent do vaccine passports help in reducing perceived health risks?

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma Arshadvaccinations, COVID-19, travel, airline, covid-19 vaccine, covid-19 passport
Introducing the Sussex Research Hive Scholars for 2021/2022
Introducing the Sussex Research Hive Scholars for 2021/2022

The Research Hive is a dedicated space within the University of Sussex Library, created especially for researchers. Supported by SAGE Publishing, it allows researchers the possibility of engaging with other members of the community at the university.

Each year three doctoral researchers are selected to be Research Hive Scholars, to provide additional support to the community through events, activities and communication.

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Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma ArshadSussex Hive, university of sussex, research hive, LGBT+, Diversity
Whistleblowing and the ‘Person-Situation’ Conundrum: What Matters More?
Whistleblowing and the ‘Person-Situation’ Conundrum: What Matters More?

This article extends the knowledge on whistleblowing by studying the impact of two individual antecedents (moral foundations and personality traits) and two situational factors (ethical leadership and leader–member exchange) on whistleblowing intentions. It was found that ethical leadership was positively, and leader–member exchange negatively related with whistleblowing.

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ResearchDeepa LintoWhistleblowing, Personality, Ethical leadership