Research Forum 2022

Fourth ACSS Research Forum | June 20-24, 2022 | Beirut

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) held its Fourth Research Forum on June 20-24, 2022 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Bringing together ACSS grantees, fellows, trustees and selection committee members, the Research Forum serves as an important venue for the ACSS community in the following ways:

• The Forum is an opportunity for grantees to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their ongoing research. 
• The Forum aims to be a productive space for collaboration across the Arab region and across disciplines.
• The Forum is an intensive learning experience for general academic issues such as research methodologies, writing and publishing, research ethics, career opportunities and so on.
• The Forum is an occasion for all participants to get to know other researchers in the region, to thicken their networks, create new relationships, and increase dialogue.
• The Forum is an important vehicle for working together towards a more dynamic and cooperative research culture, for bettering the overall quality of produced research from the region and for increased regional and global publications and dissemination. 

Participants were drawn from the following ACSS programs: the Research Grants Program on Environmentalism, Impoverishment and Social Justice Movements, the Research Grants Program on Health and Livelihoods in the Arab Region: Wellbeing, Vulnerability and Conflict, the Early Careers Fellows Program, the New Paradigms Factory Program on Gendered Resistance, the Small Grants Program on the Initiatives on Ethical Dilemmas, the Research on the Arts Program in partnership with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), and the ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in partnership with Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.

In addition to the grantees' research presentation and discussion sessions, the event included roundtables on Research Ethics in the Social Sciences in Turbulent Times, Health Policies and Social Science Research on Health in the Arab Region, and ways of involvement with the ACSS.

On the sidelines of the event, ACSS and AFAC organized an exhibition displaying artistic material from selected projects funded by the Research on the Arts Program. Participants were invited to participate in AMEWS/ACSS joint reception on the occasion of AMEWS conference.

The ACSS Research Forum is held once every two years.