Publication
SESRI’s research team primarily employs computer-assisted personal interviewing techniques. The institute houses state-of-the-art call centers through which investigators conduct telephone interviews with respondents.
SESRI’s Policy unit complement’s the research efforts by synthesizing, probing more deeply, and analyzing from a different perspective the Institute’s expansive inventory of survey data. All projects and results can be found below.
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Lambert L.A., (2018). Book Review – Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East, by Eckart Woertz. Oxford University Press. Review of Middle East Studies (ROMES), Cambridge University Press, Vol. 52: 2, pp. 435-437. |
El-Kassem, R.C., Sellami, A. & Elawad, E.F.E.( 13 November 2018), “Antecedents and consequences of perceived student employability in Qatar: parental perspective”. International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Volume 15 PP: 1–15 |
El-Kassem, R. C. (2018). “Work-Life-Balance in Qatar: Implementing TOWS Analysis as a Variant of the Classic Strategic Tool, SWOT.” Journal of WEI Business and Economics (JWEIBE). |
Alimukhamedov, F., Lambert, L.A. Bin Hashim, H., 2018. Ethical Commitment and Raison D’Etat in Rentier States: Asylum-Seeker Policies in the Gulf Cooperation Council and Central Asian Republics During the Refugee Crisis, Alternatif Politika, 10: 3, pp. 406-426. |
Salma M. Khaled ,Bethany Shockley ,Yara Qutteina ,Linda Kimmel , Kien T. Le. Testing Western Media Icons Influence on Arab Women’s Body Size and Shape Ideals: An Experimental Approach. Social Sciences. 2018; 7(9): 142 |
Maryam A. Al-Thani, Salma M. Khaled. “Toxic pleasures”: A study of eating out behavior in Arab female university students and its associations with psychological distress and disordered eating, Eating Behaviors, Volume 31, 2018, Pages 125-130 |
Franziska V. I. Saller & Salma M. Khaled. Potential psychosocial influences on gender differences in physical activity among Qatari adolescents: a first insight through descriptive observation. International Journal of Adolescent and Youth. October 3, 2018. Pages 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2018.1515087 |
Laurent A. Lambert and Hisham Bin Hashim. 2017. “A Century of Saudi-Qatari Food Insecurity: Paradigmatic Shifts in the Geopolitics, Economics and Sustainability of Gulf States Animal Agriculture”. The Arab World Geographer |
Salma M. Khaled, Linda Kimmel, and Kien Le Trung. 2018. “Assessing the factor structure andmeasurement invariance of the eatingattitude test (EAT-26) across languageand BMI in young Arab women”. Journal of Eating Disorders. |
Laurent A. Lambert et Luc Descroix. 2018. “CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES ET ESSOR DJIHADISTE AU SAHEL: UNE APPROCHE CRITIQUE POUR DES SOLUTIONS PLUS ADAPTÉES”. Conseil québécois d'études géopolitiques. |
Descroix L, Guichard F, Grippa M, Lambert LA, Panthou G, et al. Evolution of Surface Hydrology in the Sahelo-Sudanian Strip: An Updated Review. Water. 2018; 10(6):748. |
Lambert, L.A. and Lee, J., 2018. Nudging Greywater Acceptability in a Muslim Country: Comparisons of different greywater reuse framings in Qatar. Environmental Science & Policy, 89, pp. 93-99. |
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Qatar Against The Blockade - قطر في مواجهة الحصار |
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From the "Fareej" to Metropolis: Qatar Social Capital Survey II |
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Policy Brief 12: Greywater for Qatar’s Water & Food Security |
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Policy Brief 11: Public awareness and perceptions of taxation in a changing Gulf economy |
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Policy Brief 10: Needs, Preferences, and Recommendations of Charity Executives and Experts |
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Policy Brief 8: Education in Qatar: the complex reality of citizen satisfaction |
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Policy Brief 9: Public Spending Priorities in Qatar |
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Peer Reviewed Publications
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Laurent A. Lambert and Hisham Bin Hashim. 2017. “A Century of Saudi-Qatari Food Insecurity: Paradigmatic Shifts in the Geopolitics, Economics and Sustainability of Gulf States Animal Agriculture”. The Arab World Geographer |
Ewers, M.C., R. Dicce, J.P.H. Poon, Y.W. Chow & J. Gengler (2017). Creating and Sustaining Islamic Financial Centers: Bahrain in the Wake of Financial and Political Crises. Urban Geography. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/02723638.2016.1268436 |
Poon, J.P.H., J. Pollard, Y.W. Chow, and M. Ewers (2017). The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. Volume 51, Issue 10, pages 1443-1453. doi:10.1080/00343404.2016.1214254 |
Murphy, T., C. Brannstrom, M. Fry, and M. Ewers (2017). Economic development stakeholder perspectives on boomtown dynamics in the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas. Geographical Review. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/gere.12226 |
Diop, A., K.T. Le, and M.C. Ewers, (2017). Working and Living Conditions of Migrant Workers in the GCC. In S. Irudaya Rajan (Ed.), India Migration Report 2016: Gulf Migration (pp. 75-89). New York: Routledge. |
Ewers, M.C. & Dicce, R. (2017). Expatriate mobility, firm recruitment and local context: Skilled international migration to the rapidly globalizing city of Dubai. In M. van Riemsdijk and Q. Wang (Eds.) Rethinking International Skilled Migration (pp. 194-208). New York: Routledge. |
Diop, A., K. Le, T. Johnston & M. Ewers. (2017). Citizens’ attitudes towards migrant workers in Qatar. Migration and Development, 6:1, 144-160. |
Ewers, M.C. (2017). International knowledge mobility and urban development in rapidly globalizing areas: Building global hubs for talent in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Urban Geography. 38:2, 291-314. |
El-Kassem, R.C.(2017) Determinants of Banks’ Profitability: Panel Data from Qatar. Open Journal of Accounting , 6, 103-111. |
Diop, Abdoulaye, Johnston T., and Le T. K.: Donating Time or Money? “The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar”, Social Indicators Research, 2017, pp 1-19. |
Diop, Abdoulaye, Yaojun Li, Majed Mohammed H. A. Al-Ansari, and Kien T. Le: “Social Capital and Citizens’ Attitudes towards Migrant Workers”, |
Nakkash, R., Qutteina, Y., Nasrallah, C., Wright, K., El-Alti, L., Makhoul, J., & Alali, K. The Practice of Research Ethics in Lebanon and Qatar: Perspectives of Researchers on Informed Consent. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2017; doi:10.1177/1556264617730643 |
James-Hawkins, L., Qutteina, Y., & Yount, K.M. The Patriarchal Bargain in a Context of Rapid Changes to Normative Gender Roles: Young Arab Women's Role Conflict in Qatar. Sex Roles, 2016; doi:10.1007/s11199-016-0708-9. |
Sellami, Abdellatif, El-Kassem, Rima, Alqassass, Haneen, & Al-Rakeb, Noof. 2017. “A Path Analysis of Student Interest in STEM, with Specific Reference to Qatari Students.” Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education(EJMSTE), 13(9): 6045-6067 |
Sellami, Abdellatif, Kimmel, Linda, Wittrock, Jill, Hunscher, Bryan, Cotter, Anna, Al-Emadi, Ahmed, & Al-Emadi, Darwish. 2017. “Factors Shaping Qatari Students’ Career Expectations in STEM, Business, or Public Sectors Fields.” Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (EJMSTE), 13(10): 6491–6505. |
Lambert L.A., Hassan H., 2017, MOOCs and International Capacity Building in a UN Framework: Potential and Challenges. In: Leal Filho W., Mifsud M., Pace P. (eds) Handbook of Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development. World Sustainability Series. Springer. |
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Qatar Education Study 2015 – The Curriculum Report |
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Qatar Semi-Annual Survey (QSAS) |
Doha News: 26/4/2016 Doha News: 27/11/2015 Doha News: 31/10/2015 |
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Students' Motivation and Parental Participation Report |
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Qatar Education Study 2015: School Facilities Report |
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Policy Brief 7: Shadow Education: Private Tutoring and Education Reform |
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Policy Snapshot 3: Subsidy Reduction and Trends among Lower Income Qatari Households |
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Policy Brief 6: Views of the Gulf Cooperation Council among Qatari and other Gulf Nationals |
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Policy Snapshot 2: Climate Change and Temperature Warming in Qatar |
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Policy Brief 3: Housing Tenure and Economic Inequality among Qatari Citizens |
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Policy Brief 1: Citizen and Resident Satisfaction with Public Services in Qatar |
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Policy Brief 4: Public Acceptance of Taxation in Qatar |
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Policy Snapshot 3: Subsidy Reduction and Relative Poverty Among Qatari Households |
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Policy Brief 2: Worker Welfare Index |
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Policy Brief 5: Perceptions and Impacts of the Oil Crash in Qatar |
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Peer Reviewed Publications
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LARI, NOORA,AHMED (2016) GENDER AND EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE – A STUDY OF QATARI WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS. Doctoral thesis, Durham University. |
Abdelkader, Nada. 2017. "Patterns, Trends and Issues in Qatar’s Higher Education Sector.” Gulf Affairs, Spring 2017 |
Khaled, Salma M, Shockley, Bethany, Abdul Rahim, Hanan F. 2016. “The effects of citizenship status on service utilization and general satisfaction with healthcare: a cross-cultural study” International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2016, 1–8 |
Al Emadi, Ahmed, Kyriaki Kaplanidou, Abdoulaye Diop, Michael Sagas, Kien T. Le, and Semsia Al-Ali Mustafa. Forthcoming 2016. “2022 Qatar World Cup: Impact Perceptions among Qatar Residents.” Journal of Travel Research. |
Diop, Abdoulaye, Ashley E. Jardina, Mark Tessler, and Jill Wittrock. Forthcoming 2016. “Antecedents of Trust among Citizens and Non-citizens in Qatar.” Journal of International Migration and Integration. |
Ewers, Michael C. and Ryan Dicce. Forthcoming 2016. “Expatriate labor markets in rapidly globalizing cities: reproducing the migrant division of labor in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. |
Gengler, Justin and Jocelyn S. Mitchell. Forthcoming 2016. “A Hard Test of Individual Heterogeneity in Response Scale Usage: Evidence from Qatar.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research. |
Seah, Kiat Ying, Eric Fesselmeyer, and Kien T. Le. Forthcoming 2016. “Estimating and decomposing changes in the White–Black homeownership gap from 2005 to 2011.” Urban Studies. doi: 10.1177/0042098015619870 |
Abdelkader, Nada. 2016. “Public-Private Partnership in Tunisia: Enfidha Airport Assessment of an Infrastructure Achievement.” International Journal of Public Administration 39(7): 552–562 |
Badahdah, Abdallah and Kien T. Le. 2016. “Parenting Young Arab Children: Psychometric Properties of an Adapted Arabic Brief Version of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire.” Child Psychiatry & Human Development 47(3): 486–493. |
Elawad, Elmogiera, Abdoulaye Diop, Mohamed Agied, and Isam Abdelhameed. 2016. “Giving two answers to the same question: applying survey re-interview techniques.” African Journal of Science and Research 5(2): 35–37 |
Elawad, Elmogiera, Mohamed Agied, and John Lee Holmes. 2016. “Why do people participate in surveys in Qatar?” Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies 4(2): 125–131 |
Gengler, Justin and Laurent A. Lambert. 2016. “Renegotiating the Ruling Bargain: Selling Fiscal Reform in the GCC.” Middle East Journal 70(2): 321–329. |
Kaplanidou, Kyriaki, Ahmed Al Emadi, Abdoulaye Diop, and Gerald Fritz. 2016. “Business legacy planning for mega events: The case of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.” Journal of Business Research69(10): 4103–4111. |
Shockley, Bethany. 2016. “Women and Political Interest in Qatar: Moving Ahead but Not Catching Up.” Journal of Arabian Studies 6(1): 53–73 |
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FIFA Views |
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Omnibus 2015 |
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Qatar Education Facilities |
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Social Cohesion Report |
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Regional Integration in the Gulf |
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Policy Snapshot 1: Qatar Central Municipal Council |
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Alice Ann Crandall, Hanan F. Abdul Rahim, and Karen M. Yount. 2015. “Validation of the General Self-Efficacy Scale among Qatari Young Women.” Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 21(12): 891–896. |
Diop, Abdoulaye, Kien T. Le, and Mike Traugott. 2015. “Third Party Presence Effect with Propensity Score Matching.” Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 3(2): 193–215. |
Diop, Abdoulaye, Trevor Johnston, and Kien T. Le. 2015. “Reform of the Kafāla System: A Survey Experiment from Qatar” Journal of Arabian Studies 5(2): 116-137. |
Lambert, Laurent. 2015. “South-South Solutions for GCC Food Security and East African Agricultural Development: What potential role for the IsDB and Qatar in North Mozambique?” Journal of Business, Economics and Political Sciences: 4(7) 3–11. |
Sayre, Edward, Nada Abdelkader, and Samantha Constant. 2015. “The Determinants of Youth Unemployment in Qatar.” Topics in Middle Eastern and African Economies 17(2): 216–249. |
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Qatar Education Curriculum |
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Qatar World Values Survey |
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Qatari Attitudes Towards Foreign Workers |
Doha News: 30/05/2014 |
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Abdul Rahim, Hanan, Abla Sibai, Yousef Khader, et al. “Non-communicable Diseases in the Arab World.” Lancet 383(9914): 356–367. |
Le, Kien T., Abdoulaye Diop, Jill Wittrock, Darwish Al Emadi, and Elmogiera Elawad. 2014. “Gender Pre-specified Sampling for Cost Control.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 26(4): 441–452. |
Makhoul, Jihad, Leila El-Alti, Yara Qutteina, Catherine Nasrallah, Carol Sakr, Rima Nakkash, and Khalid Alali. 2014. “‘Protecting’ or ‘Policing’: Academic researchers’ view of IRBs in an Arab Context.” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 9(5): 25–35. |
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