Despite growing recognition of the importance of mental health, postgraduate psychiatric training in Africa faces significant challenges. This brief article considers the current state of psychiatric education, its key obstacles and potential solutions to these challenges. There is a need to balance international standards with local contexts to address the tension between global psychiatric norms and Africa’s unique healthcare landscape. Ultimately, enhancing postgraduate psychiatric training is essential for cultivating competent specialists capable of addressing Africa’s mental health needs.

In the years following independence, history-writing increasingly became a strategic instrument of nation-building and a means of constructing a “usable past.” Using the South African writer Bloke Modisane’s research on the Maji Maji War in Tanzania as its point of departure, this article examines how newly independent African states navigated the politics of historical production in the early postindependence period. Although deeply invested in African history, Modisane was not a formally trained historian and remained on the margins of the emerging Dar es Salaam School of History. His uneasy reception in Tanzania not only underscores the tension between Pan-African ideals and national imperatives, but the challenges faced by intellectuals working outside official or institutional structures. While he never completed his research to the point of publication, revisiting his experience reminds us that the history of African history was also shaped by incomplete, interrupted, and forgotten efforts to write the past.

This European Review Focus is based on a conference on the topic ‘Institutional Perspectives on Universities’ held at the Wenner-Gren Centre in Stockholm on 21−23 May 2025 with the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundations. The conference was part of a series arranged by the Higher Education, Research and Culture in European Society (HERCulES) group within Academia Europaea.

Introduction to the roundtable of four short essays on Academic Freedom: Conflict, Political Instability, and State Repression.

This special issue is devoted to the question of sentience and its ethical implications. Sparked by debates in contemporary science and bioethics, the theme addresses one of the most fundamental and contested concepts in moral philosophy: what it means to be sentient, why it matters, and how our understanding of it should guide practices, policies, and ethical reasoning. While the idea of sentience has long been central to questions of moral standing, recent developments—from neuroscientific models to artificial intelligence—have made it increasingly urgent to clarify its nature, scope, and significance. The contributions in this volume approach these issues from a range of philosophical, scientific, and applied perspectives, showing how the concept of sentience both challenges and enriches contemporary ethics.

International access to and sharing of biospecimens is critical to answer important questions about complex diseases, and to ensure the diversity in biospecimen collection necessary to advance science and develop therapies that benefit all. However, many challenges exist. These include the lack of harmonized ethical, legal, and policy frameworks regarding secondary uses of biospecimens and associated data; regulatory and policy hurdles; and differences in cultural perspectives and practices across regional and national jurisdictions.

In this manuscript, a set of ethical principles is presented with the intent to address some of these challenges by ensuring better alignment in ethical practices related to biobanking and the global use of human biospecimens. In addition, these principles could serve as a basis for promoting more consistency among national regulations and policies. The ultimate goal is to develop an international framework for global biospecimen and data sharing.

Business management education is increasingly making use of artificial intelligence as an emerging technology that will lead to major societal changes in learning and knowledge endeavours. This editorial article focuses on the link between business management and artificial intelligence as an enabler of social policy changes. This means considering the history of artificial intelligence and how business management education has evolved in recent years. By doing so, it encourages more focus on creative uses of social policy in terms of discussion about educational initiatives. This is helpful in gaining more insight into the novel and entrepreneurial ways business management education can embed artificial intelligence and improve overall learning outcomes.

This study developed and pilot tested a transdiagnostic family intervention for urban refugee families in low- and middle-income countries with limited access to evidence-based mental health services using a task-sharing approach. A family support design team designed the low-intensity family support (LIFS) model, trained facilitators and oversaw implementation. The model was piloted with 70 Syrian refugee families (n = 111 adolescents and n = 104 adults) recruited from six community-based organizations in Istanbul. Measures on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing were collected at baseline, and post-intervention at 1 month and 3 months after baseline. A mixed methods design assessed the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of the LIFS model. General psychological distress and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) decreased significantly for adults and adolescents. Among adults, attitudes regarding mental health and satisfaction with parenting significantly improved. Family comfort discussing distress mediated the intervention’s impact on psychological distress and PTSD. Qualitative findings identified benefits resulting from participation in the LIFS intervention, especially increased emotional regulation, knowledge of mental health, mental health help-seeking and family communication. Results indicated that the LIFS model was feasible, acceptable and potentially efficacious in decreasing psychological distress and PTSD in adolescent and adult urban refugees.

The Journal of Management and Organization (JMO) is the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. It is an international journal publishing work of global authors but has a distinct Australian and New Zealand heritage based on cultural and social pursuits. This means it is important to highlight how Australian and New Zealand management research has developed over the years and to acknowledge its uniqueness in global academia. This editorial focuses on JMO 2026 in terms of addressing needs to further ponder how values and context influences management research and practice. The role of research contexts and policy are discussed with the goal of enabling a future research agenda that specifically combines an Australian and New Zealand mindset.

We conducted an exploratory cross-sectional analysis of ethical principles and practices in forty-one published research papers with empirical data on HIV prevalence, incidence, or risk factors in humanitarian settings. We identified ten key concepts pertinent to ethical principles and applications, and presented recommendations to inform future HIV prevention research.