5 November 2026
Irregular migration remains one of the most contested governance issues in South Africa. As the region’s largest and most diversified economy, South Africa continues to attract migrants from neighbouring states and the wider African continent....
Women experiencing intimate partner violence may disclose abuse to personal contacts, approach institutions, or use both. We examined the frequency, correlates, and combinations of these responses in Ecuador. The 2019 National Survey on Family Relati...
Social media platforms collect, process, and monetise personal data on a scale that has made control over personal information a central concern for users and regulators. Research on digital sovereignty has largely addressed this concern at the level...
Norway has been found in violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights in a number of child welfare cases, particularly concerning restrictions on family life and contact between children in care and their biological parents. This...
Eco-health challenges in the Global South increasingly require integrating endogenous and academic knowledge into sustainable development. This study examines an inclusive forum-debate in Senegal that used the frieze method to decentralize and divers...
Argumentation instruction has been associated with structural improvements in students’ writing, but whether students carry these skills into public life has received less attention, particularly in Chinese higher education. This study used a s...
This study examines the “Grok crisis” that unfolded in Türkiye on 8–9 July 2025 to analyze the AI agency and ethical boundaries of AI-based chatbots in the digital public sphere. Designed as a qualitative case study, it draws o...
The current study fills several research gaps by conducting a meta-analysis to evaluate (1) how overall influencer source credibility and its dimensions (expertise, trustworthiness, and attractiveness) impact purchase intention and (2) the moderating...
There is an association between frequent Accident and Emergency (A&E) hospital attendances—high-intensity service use—and contact with the justice system. This paper addresses the lack of evidence regarding the scale and nature of hig...
Care work during emergency situations like the COVID-19 lockdowns increases among working parents, including academics. While research on academic mothers’ experiences has been extensive, evidence on academic fathers remains scarce and mixed. H...
Social networks are widely expected to ease immigrants’ incorporation, yet the value of a tie depends on the labor market in which it operates. Drawing on 8183 first-generation immigrants aged 16–65 who arrived in Spain between 1996 and 2...
Using data from India’s National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5, 2019–21), this study identifies subgroups of children who share combinations of social position and estimates how much of the national stunting burden each subgroup carries....
Internationally, anti-migrant policy narratives claim that migrants add pressure to a nation’s welfare state provision to legitimise punitive bordering practices that exclude migrants from welfare state services. In this paper, we reject this p...
Equal pay for work of equal value is a target of the 2030 Agenda (SDG 8.5), and aggregate statistics suggest that Chile’s gender wage gap narrowed after COVID-19; whether this narrowing was general or segment-specific is unclear. Using pooled 2...
Why do elite coalitions in some electoral authoritarian regimes hold together when shrinking rents, contested legitimacy, and credible exit options should produce defection? The post-Soviet “blackmail state” literature shows that rulers c...
Wells Fargo Bank, based in San Francisco and one of the largest banks in the United States, if not the world, has been the subject of a long-standing fraud investigation. Subsequent investigations by the Los Angeles City Attorney, the Consumer Financ...
Who is the enemy of the human future? In the public talk of the best-known space founders, it is stasis: the momentum lost after Apollo, the organisation that cannot move and, in its most politically charged form, the permit, the committee and the ru...
Cross-national studies usually reduce women’s economic position to one or two composite indices, so it remains unclear which dimensions of gender inequality are most closely associated with long-run growth in low-income economies. Drawing on 12...
Sport management has increasingly adopted a multidisciplinary approach to understanding sport and its effects on contemporary societies. Yet the relationship between sport policy and electoral decision-making remains comparatively underexplored, part...
Background: Hospitalized Indigenous older adults experience separation from family, community, culture, and familiar environments. Virtual reality (VR) can offer comfort but is rarely developed in partnership with Indigenous older adults, risking con...
Institutional revictimization refers to additional harm generated through institutional practices, procedures, interactions, or omissions after survivors seek formal protection. This study examined how women survivors of intimate partner violence (IP...
Crisis news increasingly reaches people through algorithmic feeds, where users may keep scrolling despite anxiety and exhaustion. This practice, known as ‘doomscrolling’, has largely been examined through quantitative measures of psycholo...
Post-coital financial extortion, colloquially known as “pay or be a jailbird”, is an under-researched form of sexual–economic exploitation in rural South Africa. This phenomenological qualitative study explored the lived experiences...
The rapid circulation of misleading information through digital media has made credibility assessment increasingly challenging for journalists and audiences. This study examines how linguistic and visual credibility cues contribute to the appearance...
Digital transformation in hospitality has centred on guest-facing and operational technology, and most of its jobs cannot be done away from the premises. This paper examines how collective agreements on telework treat such a workforce, as a decent-wo...
The reintegration of offenders into society remains a critical concern within criminal justice systems across the world. Community-based reintegration interventions have increasingly been implemented to facilitate social inclusion and the engendering...
Media coverage extends high-profile intimate partner violence (IPV) trials beyond the courtroom, establishing them as public sites where credibility, consent, accountability, legal legitimacy, and policy responses are negotiated. This study examined...
The energy transition is still widely treated as technological substitution, yet its social outcomes depend on the local ecosystems that turn new devices into new relations. This article reads renewable energy communities as a field of social innovat...
Male participation in female-dominated professions such as teaching and caring for young children in the foundation phase (FP) remains under-researched in countries such as South Africa, where teaching in this educational phase is perceived as women&...
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Qualitative studies may report saturation without specifying what was judged sufficient, supporting evidence, or scope. This systematic review examines how studies of gig-worker experiences report saturation and other sample-adequacy rationales. Sear...
Online dating applications appear to offer the potential to disrupt inequalities in romantic partner selection by expanding access beyond existing social networks. Yet despite South Korea’s extensive digital infrastructure and widespread intern...
Young learners often have limited access to interactive, engaging, and targeted scientific content in early childhood education. For many years, the focus has been on literacy and numeracy due to the perception that those subjects are more critical i...
Increasingly, young Australian tertiary students find themselves being placed in a position of vulnerability to homelessness and housing insecurity in response to the growing cost of living crisis. Despite the escalation in this precarious situation,...
Background: Medical malpractice is situated at the intersection of clinical uncertainty, expert evidence and legal liability. This narrative review analyses the Romanian framework from a forensic perspective and compares it with selected European app...
This study examined the availability of youth-serving organizations (YSOs) and the after-school programs (ASPs) they provide to newcomer students in Canada, with a focus on supporting learning, integration, and adaptability within school contexts. Da...
In this conceptual article, we explore possible relationships between the need for cognitive closure (NCC), uncertainty regulation, ideological rigidity, and the conditions of democratic deliberation. Kruglanski’s lay epistemic theory accounts...
This article examines how social work education can prepare students for professional practice in situations characterised by wicked problems, where uncertainty, competing interpretations, and changing circumstances challenge linear models of problem...
This article examines why, across Central American countries, higher social public spending is not associated with lower inequality or narrower territorial development gaps, a pattern ECLAC describes as a structural “trap” in which inequa...
This study examines geographic and socioeconomic patterns in interprovincial first-time placements to foundation universities in 12 destination provinces in Türkiye in 2024. The analysis distinguishes four mutually exclusive groups: undergraduat...
Deaths from natural causes (e.g., cardiovascular disease, respiratory illness, and cancers) are increasing in prisons in England and Wales. Many are believed to be avoidable and related to prisoner premature mortality. The circumstances around each d...
Research on African immigrants often aggregates national-origin groups, obscuring differences in language background and employment. Drawing on 2018–2022 IPUMS USA American Community Survey data (n = 17,906), this study examines employment, com...
Digital media are settings in which early adolescents negotiate privacy, respect, consent, responsibility and care. This focused mixed-methods secondary analysis brings together responses from 612 Year 8 students in Malta and interviews with 19 educa...
Student-athletes are individuals who are simultaneously involved in sports and academic activities—a dual career. In order to support their parallel career paths, public support policies are necessary, including those related to athletic grants...
Despite the existence of formal Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for homicide investigation, little is known about how these procedures are implemented in resource-constrained policing environments. This study explores the disconnection between f...
What counts as meaningful change in a closed forensic inpatient institution when social reintegration and independent living are not realistic possibilities? Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in Belgian forensic psychiatry, this article...
Repeat drink driving remains a road-safety and criminal-justice problem whose recurrence cannot be understood from sanctions alone. This study used a contextually adapted McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI) to examine how incarcerated multiple-...
Social innovation has moved from the margins of academic debate to the centre of scholarly and policy conversations about how societies can respond to grand challenges such as climate change, inequality, ageing populations, and economic instability....
This study examines whether the association between residents’ perceptions of policing and their sense of safety varies across individual characteristics and neighbourhood contexts. Using survey data from 1738 residents of the Humberside region...
This paper draws on survey data from 54 undergraduate social work students at Queen’s University Belfast to explore their perceptions of community development teaching within social work education and their preparedness for community developmen...
