Research Clusters

Global Citizenship and Education

  • Ben Haworth
  • Carine Zanchi
  • Ismael Louber
  • Ismail Lala
  • Nermeen Kassem
  • Marta Tryzna
  • Victor Parra-Guinaldo

Networks and Exchange

  • Carine Zanchi
  • Ismael Louber
  • Ismail Lala
  • Jennifer Lofkrantz
  • Manal Hosny
  • Nermeen Kassem
  • Soonhyuck Park
  • Thorsten Botz-Borstein

Labour, Movement, and Mobility

  • Ismael Louber
  • Jennifer Lofkrantz
  • Nermeen Kassem

Health and Disability

  • Ismail Lala
  • Mehrunisha Suleman
  • Shahd Alshammari

Communication, Media, and Expressive Culture

  • Bahtiyar Kurambayev
  • Cristina Navarro
  • Ismael Louber
  • Ismail Lala
  • Nermeen Kassem
  • Martin Loyato
  • Soonhyuck Park

Recent Publications/Creative Works by GSC Faculty

  • Alshammari, Shahd. (with Esra Abdelzaher). 2025. “Writing Disability and Breaking Language: A Collaborative Essay.” Life Writing.
  • Botz-Bornstein,Thorsten. 2024. Conspiracy and Contingency: How to deal with Fake Necessities. London: Anthem Press.
  • Haworth, Ben. 2024. Shakespeare's Liminal Spaces: Contesting Authority on the Early Modern Stage. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Hosny, Manal. and Carine Zanchi (with Louiz Driss). 2021. "La continuité pédagogique au Koweit et au Maroc: état des lieux et mesures prises". Didactique du FLES : Recherches et pratiques. Enseigner le FLE depuis la COVID-19 : défis et enjeux. 2 (1) https://www.ouvroir.fr/dfles/index.php?id=221
  • Kassem, N. 2023. “Which civil society? State-run media and shaping the politics of NGOs in post-uprising Egypt.” Policy Studies, 1-23.
  • Kurambayev, Bahtiyar (with Karlyga Myssayeva). 2025. "“You Receive Gos-Zakaz, Keep Your Mouth Shut”: How State Information Policy De-Professionalizes Journalism". Journalism Practice. Online First. Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2025.2505943
  • Lala, Ismail. 2025. "Eco-Theological Anthropology inChristianity: Imago Dei and Ecological Preservation.” HTS Theological Studies 81(1): 1-8. Eco-theological anthropology in Christianity: imago Dei and ecological preservation | Lala | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
  • Lofkrantz, Jennifer. 2024. “Local Civilian Responses to the Boko Haram Crisis in Yola Nigeria.” International Journal of African Historical Studies 57 (2): 209-233.
  • Louber, I (with M Almayez, M) 2023. “There’s no separation of Church and state”, a metaphorical analysis of Muslim native speaker teachers’ representations of English language teaching and Islam in Saudi Arabia. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 21(2): 223–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2023.2235449
  • Navarro, Cristina (with C Mothes, C Mellado, etal). 2024. "Spurring or blurring professional standards? The role of digital technology in implementing journalistic role ideals in contemporary newsrooms." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241246692
  • Park, Soonhyuck (wth Dhari AlOtaibi and Shamlan AlQuenaie). 2024. “Request: A KuwaitiCultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (KCSSARP).” Journal of Cognitive Science 25(2): 275-308. 2024.
  • Parra-Guinaldo, V (with J.M Ryan). 2023. "Trends of diminutive relexification in Neapolitan: A lexicographic analysis with comparisons to Spanish and Italian". Athens Journal of Philology, 10(1), 9-34 [doi=10.30958/ajp.10-1-1] https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.10-1-1
  • Tryzna, M., (with I Ivanov & Y AlBader). 2025. “Definiteness at the syntax-semantics interface: testing the acquisition of English articles by Kuwaiti Arabic speakers in relative clause contexts.” Lang Test Asia 15, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40468-025-00351-2