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    Got sick of surveys or lack of social capital? An investigation on the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on institutional surveying

    The use of surveys to better understand students’ experiences and teaching quality in higher education has a long history of implementation and critical review. Although research on student feedback surveys ha...

    Adam Possamai, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy in The Australian Educational Researcher (2024)

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    Ramadan: devotion, compassion, and purification in Sydney

    While Ramadan in Western societies has been studied extensively in relation to health issues, no research to date has explored its representation through social scientific lenses. This article uses the Greater...

    Adam Possamai, Kathleen Openshaw, Pedram Khosronejad, Ayesha Rasheed in Contemporary Islam (2022)

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    Relational spirituality and quality of life 2007 to 2017: an integrative research review

    Despite the increasing number of evidence-based research on relational spirituality (RS) and quality of life (QoL) in medical-health research, little is known about the links between RS and QoL outcomes and th...

    Victor Counted, Adam Possamai, Tanya Meade in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes (2018)

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    Sufism, spirituality and consumerism: the case study of the Nimatullahiya and Naqshbandiya Sufi orders in Australia

    This article is a comparative study of two well-known Sufi orders, the Khaniqahi (Nimatullahi) and Haqqani (Naqshbandi). This is a preliminary work that draws on in-depth qualitative interviews to examine the ...

    Milad Milani, Adam Possamai in Contemporary Islam (2016)

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    Cosmopolitan tensions: religious diversity in an Australian university

    This paper examines ideas of cosmopolitanism, particularly social theorists’ interests in a cosmopolitan ‘disposition’, to consider how religiously diverse students experience campus life in a multi-faith Aust...

    Arathi Sriprakash, Adam Possamai, Ellen Brackenreg in The Australian Educational Researcher (2014)