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Profile
College / Department
Teaching areas
Research areas
Public opinion, political behavior, women in politics, Arab Gulf politics
Education
PhD, Political Science, Texas A&M University, United States, 2014
Professional experience
Research Associate, Social And Policy Sciences, University of Bath, 2018 - 2019
Research Associate, The Social And Economic Survey Research Institute (sesri), Qatar University, 2014 - 2018
Contact
+971 6 515 2477
Dr. Bethany Shockley
Assistant Professor
PhD, Texas A&M University, United States
I am a social scientist who investigates issues of governance, identity and decision-making. Currently, I teach political science and research methods at the American University in Sharjah, UAE. Previously, my work at SESRI (The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute) focused on designing surveys and analyzing survey data both for academic research and external clients.
Publications
Michael Ewers And Bethany Shockley. Graduate migration, partisanship, and city preferences: An experimental approach to place-consonant migration decisions, Population, Space And Place, 2023
Bethany Shockley And Stephen Louw. Targeted Benefits and Social Cohesion: Evolving Social Welfare in the UAE, Apsa Mena Spring Newsletter, May 2023
Bethany Shockley And Justin Gengler. Sharing Citizenship: Economic Competition, Cultural Threat, and Immigration Preferences in the Rentier State, Political Science Research And Methods, May 2023
Michael Ewers, Justin Gengler And Bethany Shockley. Bargaining power: A framework for understanding varieties of migration experience, International Migration Review, 2021
Justin Gengler, Bethany Shockley And Michael Ewers. Refinancing the rentier state: welfare, inequality, and citizen preferences toward fiscal reform in the Gulf oil monarchies, Comparative Politics, 2021
Michael Ewers, Justin Gengler And Bethany Shockley. Bargaining Power: A Framework for Understanding Varieties of Migration Experience Authors, International Migration Review, May 2021
Bethany Shockley And Sean Yom. Public Opinion and Attitudes
Bethany Shockley, Lorraine Charles, Ilan Pappé And Monica Ronchi. Positionality and Access: Doing Surveys and Empirical Research in the Middle East, March 2021
Bethany Shockley, Noora Lari, Engi El-maghraby And Mohammad Al-ansari. Social media usage and support for women in community leadership: Evidence from Qatar, 2020
Hanan Abdul Rahim, Said Ismail, Amel Hassan, Tasnim Fadl, Salma Khaled, Bethany Shockley, Catherine Nasrallah, Yara Qutteina, Engi Elmaghraby, Heba Yasin And Others. Willingness to participate in genome testing: a survey of public attitudes from Qatar, Journal Of Human Genetics, 2020
Bethany Shockley And Justin Gengler. Social identity and Coethnic voting in the Middle East: Experimental evidence from Qatar, Electoral Studies, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2020
Bethany Shockley, Noora Lari, Engi El-maghraby And Mohammad Al-ansari. Social Media Usage and Women’s Empowerment in Qatar: Evidence from a National Representative Survey, Women’s Studies International Forum
Nada Benmansour, Noora Lari And Bethany Shockley. Exploring Local Governance and E-Services in Qatar, International Journal Of Public Administration In The Digital Age (ijpada), 2019
Justin Gengler, Bethany Shockley And Michael Ewers. Refinancing the Rentier State: Citizen Preferences towards Spending, Subsidies, and Taxation in a New Economic Reality, Comparative Politics
Michael Ewers, Bethany Shockley And Yioryos Nardis. Mobility Competitiveness and Security: Expatriate Perspectives from Qatar, 2018
Bethany Shockley, Noora Al-lari, Engi Elmaghraby And Mohammad Al-ansari. Social Media Usage and Women's Empowerment in Qatar: Evidence from a National Representative Survey, 2018
Michael Ewers And Bethany Shockley. Attracting and retaining expatriates in Qatar during an era of uncertainty: Would you stay or would you go?, Population, Space And Place, 2018
Bethany Shockley. Competence and Electability: Exploring the Limitations on Female Candidates in Qatar, Journal Of Women, Politics \& Policy, 2018
Bethany Shockley, Michael Ewers, Yioryos Nardis And Justin Gengler. Exaggerating good governance: Regime type and score inflation among executive survey informants, Governance, 2018
Salma Khaled, Bethany Shockley, Yara Qutteina, Linda Kimmel And Kien Le. Testing western media icons influence on Arab women’s body size and shape ideals: An experimental approach, Social Sciences, 2018
Michael Ewers, Sundos Ashi And Bethany Shockley. Public awareness and perceptions of taxation in a changing Gulf economy, 2017
Bethany Shockley. Supplemental Information for" Exaggerating Good Governance: Regime Type and Score Inflation among Executive Survey Informants", 2017
Michael Ewers, Glnar Eskander And Bethany Shockley. Public Acceptance of Taxation in Qatar, Policy, 2016
Salma Khaled, Bethany Shockley And Hanan Abdul Rahim. The effects of citizenship status on service utilization and general satisfaction with healthcare: a cross-cultural study, International Journal For Quality In Health Care, 2016
Bethany Shockley. Women and political interest in Qatar: Moving ahead but not catching up, Journal Of Arabian Studies, 2016
Bethany Shockley. Local Representation in the Context of Decentralization: Mayors, Citizens, and Local Governance in Latin America, 2014
Conference Presentations
Belonging Across Generations and Geographies: Evolving Attachment to the UAE, 24 Gulf Research Center Cambridge Conference, 19 July 2024
Microfoundations of Political Inclusion: Exploring candidate preferences among the young and the educated of the UAE, Ins Department Colloquium, October 2021
Refinancing the Rentier State: Citizen Preferences towards Spending, Subsidies, and Taxation in a New Economic Reality, Annual Meeting Of The Middle East Studies Association (mesa), November 2019
Grants and sponsorships
Sponsored Research, Understanding Female Labor Force Participation in Heavy Industry, Emirates Global Aluminium, 1 November 2024 - 25 June 2025
Grant, Transforming Societies: Generation, Geography, and Belonging in a Diverse State, American University of Sharjah, June 2023
Grant, An Experimental Study of Support for Women in Politics, American University of Sharjah, June 2020 - 30 June 2021
