Do a thesis topic and the research elements belong to the doctoral student or to the supervisor? The complexity of these legal aspects creates a gray area where both researchers and thesis supervisors sometimes appropriate or claim the data collected and the results. The scientific output itself then gets lost in the haze of administrative ambiguity.
On Monday, 232 researchers from Morocco and abroad launched a petition urging the International Sociological Association (ISA) to reconsider the program for its fifth World Forum, scheduled to take place in Rabat from July 6 to 11, 2025. Although the ISA has suspended the membership of the Israeli sociological body, three Israeli researchers remain listed as participants. In response, sociologists have stepped up their mobilization efforts and announced a boycott.