The fifth issue of Volume 9 of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations has been published.

Volume 9, Number 5 contains:

• A Space for Gray: The Dialogue between Diverse Voices by Debbie R. Schallock.
• Peer Assisted Study Sessions to Facilitate Transition for International Students by Lisa Schmidt and Julia Miller.
• An Effective Design for Intercultural Training Programs: Boosting Participants’ Program Learning Outcomes by Megumi Morisue.
• Does Gender Make the Difference? An Analysis on Sport Coaches by Michela Cortini.
• Beyond Corporate Diversity: Antiracist Education for Social Justice by Katrin Reimer.
• Towards a National Discursive Construction of Nurses’ Diversity Related Competencies? by Annie Aarup Jensen and Kirsten Jæger.
• Recognising Ecological Contexts of Diverse Ethnic Groups: Experiences of British-Indian Adult Children of Divorce by Chaitali Das.

• Methodological Challenges of Researching Positive Action Measures by Uduak Archibong, Aliya Darr, Jite Eferakorho, Andy Scally, Karl Atkin, Carol Baxter, Mark R. D. Johnson, Mark Bell, Lisa Waddington, Katrin Wladasch, Tara Bedard, Oluyinka Adejumo, Phyllis Sharps and Pat Bradshaw.
• Perceptions of the Impact of Positive Action in EU and non-EU Countries by Uduak Archibong, Jite Eferakorho, Aliya Darr, Andy Scally, Karl Atkin, Carol Baxter, Mark R. D. Johnson, Mark Bell, Lisa Waddington, Katrin Wladasch, Tara Bedard, Oluyinka Adejumo, Phyllis Sharps and Pat Bradshaw.
• The Distance from Home: Sense of Involvement in Homeland Politics among Overseas Japanese by Momoyo K. Shibuya.
• Algeria’s Political and Economic Reforms: An Assessment by Omar C. Bourouh and Mohamed Hennad.
• Preservice Teachers’ Perceived and Measured Knowledge of Diversity by Lynn Spradlin.
• Japanese Teachers’ Perception of Homogeneity: Foreign Students as Exceptions by Mito Takeuchi and Francis Ebenezer Godwyll.
• The Ethnicity Factor in the Vote Against Bilingual Education in California by Ronald Sylvia.

Congratulations to all of the International Award for Excellence finalists:

• Journeying towards Leadership: Personal Accounts of Experiences of Corrective Action by Managers in NHS Organisations by Fahmida Ashraf and Uduak Archibong.
• Intergenerational Conflicts in the Indian American Adolescents by Srilata Bhattacharyya.
• Recognising Ecological Contexts of Diverse Ethnic Groups: Experiences of British-Indian Adult Children of Divorce by Chaitali Das.
• Using or Abusing the TRC? Efforts to Transform a South African University by Vivian de Klerk.
• Participatory Action Research in Cultural Heritage Management for Indigenous Cultural Heritage: The Gabbie Kylie Foundation, Esperance, Western Australia by David Rhys Guilfoyle, Dr. Andrew M Guilfoyle and Doc Reynolds (to be published in an upcoming issue)
• Harassment at Work: UK’s Legal Solutions by Victoria Howes.
• The Saga of Border Crossers: Social Adjustment of Japanese Female Students in a Midwestern U.S. University by Sumiko Miyafusa and Francis Ebenezer Godwyll.
• Socioeconomic Factor and First-Degree Graduate Employability: The Malaysian Scenario by Sharifah Md Nor and Bahaman Abu Samah.
• The Ethnicity Factor in the Vote Against Bilingual Education in California by Ronald Sylvia.

The fourth issue of Volume 9 of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations has been published.

Volume 9, Number 4 contains:

• A “Mad” Critique of the Social Model of Disability by Essya M. Nabbali.
• The Globalization of Culture: Myth or Reality? by Daniel Robert Morris.
• Hate Crime Based on Ethnicity and Religion: A Description of the Phenomenon in the United States Since 2000 by Mitchell Sherr and Max Montesino.
• Embedding Diversity in the University: A Case Study by Patrick J. Ashton.
• How the Internet Influences our Worldview of Ethnic Representation by Beau Basel Beaudoin.
• South Asians in Britain: Acculturation, Cultural Identity and Perceived Discrimination by Lena Robinson.
• Managing the Culture of Diversity: National and Cultural Identities as the basis of Sustained Competitive Advantages in Globalised Markets by Andrejs Chirjevskis and Iveta Ludviga.

• Troubling Diversity? Exploring Nurses’ Discursive Construction of Intercultural Encounters in Healthcare Settings by Kirsten Jæger and Annie Aarup Jensen.
• Differing Backgrounds/Differing Perspectives: Wrestling with Diversity and Democracy at an Institution of Higher Education by Shirley Wade McLoughlin.
• A Community of Practice Model for Social Inclusion: An Evaluation by Mina Singh, Cheryl Prescod and James Radner.
• Emotional Intelligence, Achievement Motivation and Academic Achievement Among Students of the Public and Private Higher Institutions by Rahil Mahyuddin, Habibah Elias and Nooreen Noordin.
• Identity and Belonging in a Culturally Diverse Classroom in Cyprus by Evgenia Partasi.
• The Saga of Border Crossers: Social Adjustment of Japanese Female Students in a Midwestern U.S. University by Sumiko Miyafusa and Francis Ebenezer Godwyll.
• Intergenerational Conflicts in the Indian American Adolescents by Srilata Bhattacharyya.