SGP Grantees (2023)

Introduction

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is pleased to announce a call for applications under the “Small Grants Program on Ethics of Social Research”. An amount of up to USD 4,000 will be available to eligible academic, development and advocacy institutions from Jordan and Palestine whose projects are accepted for funding.

The “Ethics of Social Research” is one of the ACSS programs that seek to engrain the culture of research ethics in the Arab region. This has been done through 1) training programs for ACSS grantees; 2) Small grants on “Ethical Dilemmas in Social Science Research” for individual researchers (two cycles) and 3) Small grants on “Ethics of Social Research” targeting Jordanian and Palestinian institutions to encourage them to reflect on their institutions’ ethical principles, protocols, and practices.

The Ethics of Social Research Program is funded by a grant provided to the ACSS by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.

Cycle 6 Ethics of Social Research (2023)

Selection Committee

Islah Jad is an associate professor and lecturer on gender issues and politics at the Institute of Women's Studies and the Institute of Cultural Studies at Birzeit University, which she directed from 2008 to 2013 and also Acting Director for the year 2021. She is a founding member of the Master's Program in Women's Studies and the first PhD program in social sciences at Birzeit University. She is the author of several books and academic articles that dealt with the role of women in politics, Palestinian women, the relationship between them, Islam, and non-governmental organizations. Jad is also a gender advisor at the United Nations Development Program and has co-authored the United Nations Development Report on Women's Empowerment, as well as three other books. She obtained her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 2004.

Jamil Mouawad is a Senior Fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative in charge of the independent professional associations project in the Arab world. He is also a lecturer in politics at the American University of Beirut, where he teaches courses in Public Policy, Political Science and Lebanese politics. He holds a PhD in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is a former Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. Jamil is a founding member of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies, and the coordinator of the Ethics in Social sciences project initiated by the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). His research interests in state-society relations span the subfields of comparative politics and political economy. He has several scientific publications and is a regular commentator on Lebanese politics.

Mai Abu Moghli is a senior researcher at the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) and a Co-PI on the British academy bilateral chair in education in conflict at the University of Cambridge and CLS. Mai works with teachers in Lebanon and her research focuses on teachers' experiences in conflict and contexts of mass displacement, decolonizing higher education and teachers' activism.

Small Grants Program Grantees 2023:

Institutions

Jerusalem Center for Women

Luna Orikat

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: تطوير بروتوكولات اخلاقيات البحث النسوي

The Royal Scientific Society

Yara Shaban

Nationality: Jordanian

Project Title: The road to ethical social science research: A blueprint for establishing an Institutional Review Board at the Royal Scientific Society

Jordan University of Science and Technology

Omar Khabour

Nationality: Jordanian

Project Title: Development of an online training module entitled “Publishing using Open-Access Journals: How to avoid predatory ones”

Al-Quds University

Munir Nusaibah (Principal Investigator)

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: أخلاقيات البحث العلمي- الأبحاث القانونية ومتعددة المناهج

Insaniyyat-Society of Palestinian Anthropologists

Laura Adwan (Principal Investigator) & Dina Zbbeidy (Co-Investigator)

Nationality: Palestinian

Project Title: Insaniyyat’s Code of Ethics for Ethnographic Research