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Shankaran Nambiar is Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research, is also a distinguished member of the academic advisory council at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). As Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Nambiar brings a wealth of expertise to his research role. Nambiar's international engagements include being a visiting scholar at ...

Internationalised higher education literature draws attention to the tension between the economic returns of recruiting overseas students and the personal, social and cultural possibilities offered. This paper advances the idea that fostering cosmopolitan values might be an educational focus for internationalisation. However, it appears that the creation of higher education learning environments which promote such values, offering opportunities for students to become more interculturally aware i...

The Capability Approach, a concept introduced in our previous column (“The quest for well-being in turbulent times,” Jan. 19), centers on well-being: of living a life of value. As a powerful framework used to guide and measure the development and impact of public policy, its force is focused on quality of life and the ability […]

Several pieces of data and statistics will be thrown around to prove an unprovable hypothesis as is the nature of our heavily and increasingly less informed politics despite mountains of statistics and data at the disposal of the political landscape from Stats SA.

Introduction: Economic evaluation currently focuses almost exclusively on the maximization of health, using the Quality-Adjusted Life-Year (QALY) framework with instruments such as the EQ-5D, with a limited number of health-focused dimensions providing the assessment of health benefit. This evaluative framework is likely to be insufficient for setting priorities in dementia care because of its exclusive concern with health. Data are also often collected from the perspective of a proxy, limiting ...

Turbulent times have given rise to fundamental questions about our future individual and collective security. This has brought considerable attention to the concept of well-being, generating a range of explanations as to what it means and why it is important, especially in the realm of public policy. The World Health Organization defines well-being as “enabling […]

Sustainable development, in recent times, is a global issue on which there is wide agreement.

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Date Time Working with Colombia’s indigenous Kankuamo people to support post-conflict wellbeing A University of Liverpool project will seek to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the indigenous Kankuamo people of northern Colombia, after securing funding through The Newton Fund, ESRC and Minciencias. The University’s Dr Ross White and Dr Anna Chiumento will work in partnership with the in-country Externado University of Colombia team, led by Prof Diego Mauricio Aponte, on the 30 mont...