Projects

The pre-review consists of rapid assessments of the conference papers, independent of the peer-review and editorial decisions of partnered journals. The pre-review is performed by the IIAS Board of Reviewers, an emerging community in the IIAS. The group is composed of truly diverse Ph.D. students and young scholars, with expertise in a wide variety of fields.

We conformed our first group of reviewers in September 2020, who have received guidelines and training from our international network to orientate their work. The review has three key characteristics: double-blind, systematic, and transparent. The reviewers will complete a form in ConfTool following five criteria as well as provide substantive comments to the authors. These criteria correspond to: shaping the development of administrative sciences, research quality, theoretical interest, practical relevance, and readability (organization, clarity).

The IIAS Academy aims to provide a platform of dialogue on research methods, Ph.D. thesis developments, key contemporary topics and critical issues to young public administration researchers, Ph.D. and master students, and civil servants. The Academy also provides advice for professionalization and community integration. IIAS Academy is also a network of networks for methods and theoretical approaches exchanges.

Its tasks cover on evaluating the MPM against the indicators of the Programmes win a college Review Handbook published by Bahrain's authority for Quality Assurance (BQAL The project identified potential noncompliance areas and set course for an action plan to comply with BOA standards, advising MPM staff to prepare the program for BQA and international accreditations.

The project from 2014 to 2019, a qualitative internet-based survey within the European PA community was conducted to assess and document opinions and concerns. Four major Pars were developed and discussed: Disciplines, Futures Cultures Practices