Collaborative Research Initiatives GU-Q engages in a number of fruitful research collaborations that lead to conferences, symposia, colloquia, publications, and research grants.
THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD WORKING GROUP The researchers of the Indian Ocean Working group at GU-Q meet regularly to discuss books, plan conferences, symposia, and other events that promote research around connectivities in the Indian Ocean World.
One of the aims is to provide a “remapping” of the region through case studies that offer a wide variety of perspectives on circularities and identities forged in the wider Indian Ocean region. The group’s core team is from GU-Q, Qatar University, and Northwestern University in Qatar.
FUNDED COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS ONGOING PROJECTS
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Managing National Security Risk during and after the Blockade: Strategic Challenges and Opportunities for Qatar’s Energy Sector
Structure of the Nuclear Family in the Wake of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies Principal Investigator: Ayman Shabana
Principal Investigator: Rory Miller This project (NPRP12S-0210-190067) examines the challenges and opportunities that Qatar’s energy sector has encountered in managing national security risk since the start of the blockade launched against it in June 2017 and how the evolving strategic environment will result in new challenges and opportunities in the future.
New genetic and reproductive technologies pose considerable challenges to the established structure of Islamic regulations concerning the nuclear family, marital connections, and lineage regulations, especially traditional definitions of both paternity and maternity and the extent to which these two concepts should be tied to marriage. This project (NPRP8-1478-6-053) aimed to identify research lacunae in current scholarship on this important topic and suggest ways to fill these gaps.
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