International research collaboration (IRC) has been relevant for the development of national
scientific systems. In Africa, given the limited resources devoted to research and …

What does it mean to collaborate with people affected by issues of interest to social science
researchers? How can political scientists approach the people they study as research …

The ageing population and society (APS) nexus is one of the key grand challenges of this
millennium. And yet, the systematic analysis of scholarly literature on the APS nexus has …

Researchers studying conflict, violence, and human rights in dangerous settings across the
globe face a complex set of ethical, personal, and professional dilemmas. Especially in more …

It is widely recognised that science in Africa will benefit from international research
collaboration (IRC), and therefore studies have been done on IRC in Africa (hereafter: Africa …

Urgent political action is required to arrest the rise in global temperature within the 1.5° C
target of the Paris Agreement. Rising to this challenge, a series of Just Transition Energy …

The complex nature of civil conflict makes it inherently difficult to study, which is exacerbated
by the challenges of conducting field research in volatile conflict zones. How do these …

In this article, we scrutinise the importance of researchers' positionality vis-à-vis the 'Global
South'/'North'binary in the field of international and comparative education. Accounting for …

A push for evidence-based approaches to the study of politics, dubbed the 'credibility
revolution', has resulted in a proliferation of experiments and randomized control trials …

Partnerships between researchers and conservation practitioners are essential for gathering
the information needed to diagnose conservation problems and to determine what actions …