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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Briefs & Reports
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| Blockade on Business |
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| Qutteina Y, Nasrallah C, Kimmel LG, Khaled SM. Relationship between social media use and disordered eating behavior among female university students in Qatar. Journal of Health and Social Sciences. January 2019. DOI: 10.19204/2019/rltn7 |
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Khaled SM. Prevalence and potential determinants of subthreshold and major depression in the general population of Qatar. Journal of Affective Disorders, 252 (2019) 382-393.DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.04.056
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Khaled SM, Wilkins S, Woodruff P. Lifetime Prevalence and Potential Determinants of Psychotic Experiences in the General Population of Qatar. Psychological Medicine. April 9, 2019. https:// doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719000977
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Khaled SM, Gray R. Depression in migrant workers and nationals of Qatar: An exploratory cross-cultural study. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. May 26, 2019.
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El-Kassem, R.C ( 2019) “ Antecedents and Consequences of Work-Family Conflict in Qatar.” The Journal of Social Sciences Research , Academic Research Publishing Group, Vol. 5. Issue.6, pp. 1010-1019.
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Peer Reviewed Publications
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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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| 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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