The Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action - Calls

Lebanon Support is looking for a researcher to develop a factsheet on Right to Health for Jordan. The fact sheets aim to map out existing right to health services and practices, as well as assess their possible enhancements from a rights based approach perspective.

Lebanon Support is looking for a researcher to develop a factsheet on Social Protection on Tunisia. The fact sheets aim to map out existing social protection schemes and practices, as well as assess their possible enhancements from a rights based approach perspective.

Lebanon Support is looking for a researcher to develop a factsheet on Social Protection on Tunisia. The fact sheets aim to map out existing social protection schemes and practices, as well as assess their possible enhancements from a rights based approach perspective.

Lebanon Support is looking for a researcher to develop a factsheet on Social Protection on Jordan.The fact sheets aim to map out existing social protection schemes and practices, as well as assess their possible enhancements from a rights based approach perspective.

Lebanon Support is looking for a research consultant to review and update the data of the Mapping of Gender Actors in Lebanon.

Civil society in the Middle East has continued to centre initiatives and projects on gender equality and women’s rights over the past few years. In many ways, this can be read as a part of a long history of both activist and feminist engagements in the region. Lebanon Support is seeking submissions for the issue titled "Challenging Power and Inequality: Gender and Social Justice in the Middle East".

Social sciences research – which we broadly define as any form of research that uses scientific approaches and tools in order to produce empirical-based knowledge about society - is a social activity that faces multiple constraints. Lebanon Support is seeking submissions for the issue titled "Political economy of research in social sciences in the Arab world".

The Bassem Chit Fellowship for the Study of Activism aims to give early career scholars the opportunity to conduct research on activism in the Arab world. It invites them to examine political processes from below, with a focus on contentious politics, and collective action while steering away from the idea of the cultural exceptionalism of the “area”. The fellowship particularly seeks to encourage research that explores the genealogy of mobilizing actors, their action repertoires, their framing processes, their modes of actions, and their demands. 

The Migration Study Week offers a participatory, interdisciplinary, innovative, and intensive immersion in migration issues in the Middle East. It aims at providing practitioners, junior researchers, and journalists that work with and on refugees the opportunity to reflect critically on the main problematics that shape migration, mobility, and circulation in the Middle East.

Forced migration, a widely debated concept due to its polysemic nature, is by no means a contemporary phenomenon in the Middle East (Al Khouri, 2004). Yet, in 2018, this geographic area (notably Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt), as well as Turkey, is witnessing one of the largest-scale displacements in history, not only as a source, but also as recipient of the largest number of (internally) displaced people (Forced Migration Review, 2017).