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Understanding intercultural transitions of medical students (2015)
Journal Article
Hayes, A. L., Mansour, N., & Fisher, R. (2015). Understanding intercultural transitions of medical students. International Journal of Medical Education, 6, 26-37. https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.54e7.b57f

Objectives: The aim of this research was to explore the transition of medical students to an international branch campus of a medical university established in Bahrain.

Methods: In order to gain insights into this transition, we explored two cultu... Read More about Understanding intercultural transitions of medical students.

Bringing the Outside In: Somaliland, Statebuilding, and Dual Hybridity (2015)
Journal Article
Richards, R. (2015). Bringing the Outside In: Somaliland, Statebuilding, and Dual Hybridity. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 9(1), 4 - 25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2014.991074

International norms of what it means to be a state dictate domestic policy within developing and unrecognized states but must co-exist with internal demands. With a mutual dependence between internal and external considerations and, indeed, legitimac... Read More about Bringing the Outside In: Somaliland, Statebuilding, and Dual Hybridity.

Social solidarity, social work and Chinese people (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Social solidarity, social work and Chinese people. International Social Work, 773-786. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872814559557

Differences in social solidarity among Chinese in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom have been identified from two linked studies. Significant differences emerged between the two Chinese communities. Notably, respondents in Hong Kong reported a higher... Read More about Social solidarity, social work and Chinese people.

Sexing War/Policing Gender Motherhood, Myth and Women’s Political Violence (2015)
Book
(2015). Sexing War/Policing Gender Motherhood, Myth and Women’s Political Violence

Overall, this book argues that maternalist war stories function to reiterate traditional heteronormative gender roles. This is how a ‘body politics’ of war is not only policing gender norms but actually writing ‘sex’ itself.

What's Queer about Political Science? (2015)
Journal Article
Lee, D. (2015). What's Queer about Political Science?. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 49 - 63. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.12037

<jats:p> Research Highlights and Abstract </jats:p><jats:p> The study of gender, sexuality—and, in particular, queer theory—is central to the social sciences and humanities. Our analysis of citation practices shows that queer theorist Judith Butler i... Read More about What's Queer about Political Science?.

Identity and cross-border student mobility: The mainland China–Hong Kong experience (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Identity and cross-border student mobility: The mainland China–Hong Kong experience. European Educational Research Journal, 65-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904114565155

This article is drawn from research in an ongoing multiple case study of the identity constructions of tertiary-level border-crossing students from mainland China to Hong Kong. It begins by outlining the contextual and conceptual background of the st... Read More about Identity and cross-border student mobility: The mainland China–Hong Kong experience.