Possible topics with global themes:

Impact of financial recession on mental health in Portugal or maybe a comparison before

and during the international economic crisis.
How can we gather and analyse of average decrease in family income in last decade.
Will possible correlation between unemployment and average earnings of the last
twenty years with the following indicators of mental health (affective disorder), visits
to emergency and outpatient psychiatric clinics, suicide, homicide, mortality and
divorce during the last decade lead to better understanding of the given scenario.
Small scale mining and water pollution- environment (statistical analysis of destruction
of habitat including flora, fauna, natural watersheds and drainage pattern and of
aquifer that causes lowering of water table) and health (rise in respiratory damage
through the high levels of dust and other chemicals)
Forced evictions in the slums; human rights and health; look into data revealing access to
medical care, food, water, and sanitation. Can we calculate population density by
finding large concentrations of poor living in informal settlements? Can this be related
to psychological, social, and material deprivations of people? How can they collect
data regarding Forced evictions exacerbate the living in poverty, disrupting social
networks, survival strategies.
Understanding of Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota
Anthropology; historical evidence and reservation legalities of standing rock and
explore in terms of cultural identity and heritage (rights of indigenous people to their
historic, religious, and cultural heritage).
Equality and inequality can be understood by looking into if Native Americans were
involved at any stage in the project DAPL. Was pipeline re-routed from Bismarck due to
concerns about the water supply? If unjustified force was used by law enforcement
officials, and private security firms on opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline.
environment sustainability; students can be asked to look into history of oil spill via
pipeline and relate it to prospective threats to the aquatic ecosystem and the impact
on the safety of reservation water supply by the pipeline beneath the nearby Missouri
river.

Unemployment and social unrest- Does Arab spring has any links to unemployment
and underemployment. Is there any reliable way to assess the deep underlying
structural impact of factors like demographics and economics on unrest? Can
proliferation of citizen protests and petitions determine the unrest, income and its
change? Can determinants of subjective well-being (unhappy people, dissatisfied with
life, are any likely to be socially discontented) explore the relationship or balance
between the two? Can we compare increased economic stress on social programs as

well as on taxpayers in different timelines? Do effects of income have a role in

economic inequality, and economic insecurity on subjective wellbeing?
Questions to be asked:
Is the topic having any glocal significance? Can we apply it in any other globally
relevant phenomenon for better understanding? Is it inviting interdisciplinary and
multiple perspective to comprehend it the core aspect? If yes we can go on.
Though my students do understand the role of interdisciplinary approach in
understanding of the topic yet they often struggle while establishing global
significance. Sometimes I find it has transferability issues.