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Full-length, author-attributed manuscripts from the Community Leadership and Social Change Program Research Scholars — complete with abstract, methodology, results tables, limitations and references. Open access under CC BY 4.0.
Community Leadership and Social Change Program Research Scholars, Department of Graduate Institute, DHI University (DHIU), India
Research article · Migration & brain drain ·
The Flight of Gen Z: A Data-Driven Analysis of Brain Drain Dynamics and Youth Aspirations in Kerala
67.7% intend to leave Kerala, but 74.8% intend to come back — migration reads here as a financial strategy rather than a permanent exit.
Mujthaba Shamil Sha
Read articleResearch article · Civic engagement ·
From Grama Sabhas to Algorithms: Shifting Paradigms of Civic Awareness and Community Engagement in Gen Z
57.4% have no idea how ward governance works and 55.4% do not know their Panchayat holds youth-specific funds — an information and access gap, not apathy.
Muhammed Nizamuddeen
Read articleResearch article · Digital wellbeing ·
The Digital Panopticon: Smartphone Overdependency, Dopamine Burnout and the Local Youth Mental Health Matrix
86.2% of respondents exceed three hours of daily phone use and nearly half report frequent anxiety — yet fewer than two in a hundred name professional counselling as their first response to severe stress.
Sadakathulla M. M.
Read articleResearch article · Education & employability ·
The Degree Is Not Enough: Gendered Perceptions of Employability and Self-Directed Skilling Among Generation Z Graduates in Kerala
Male respondents were twice as likely to call their degree completely insufficient, while self-directed digital learning and generative AI have displaced the classroom as the reported source of job-ready skill.
Muhammed Noufal Chappanangadi
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