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The Middle East and North Africa Social Policy Network (MENA) is dedicated to open discussion about social justice and social welfare issues.
Our policy themes
Childhood & youth
The approach we adopt is child- and youth-centred, prioritising the voices and perspectives of children & young people.
Conflict & security
Focusing on technology & security, identity & conflict, complexity & crisis management, international order & supranational governance.
Environment & sustainability
Encompassing international climate change negotiations, national environmental politics, carbon markets, CSR & behaviour change.
Global political economy
Our research is concerned with policies at local, national & global levels that will better harness the global political economy to the public good.
Governance & policy design
Our research seeks to understand policy-making and the institutional, social, economic and political processes involved.
Health & wellbeing
We seek to improve the evidence base from which practitioners & policy makers draw policies & practices for health & wellbeing.
Poverty, work & justice
We seek to improve relevant evidence bases & to build research collaborations relating to work, poverty and social justice.
Our experts
Our senior academic staff have established major reputations in policy research, both nationally and internationally.
Our networks
Our networks are central to our vision as an interactive hub, central to the University’s strategies to engage with major challenges of the modern world.
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