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Welcome to our participants!

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This month, the team selected 24 participants for the project. We had almost 100 applications from brilliant scholar-activists right across Southeast Asia, so this was a really difficult task! Our project administrator has been working tirelessly to organise this process (thank you, June!) We wish we could include everyone. We hope that even those who were not selected this time will keep in touch with the project in the future. We have now sent out the news to participants and we are getting ready for the first event: our first online seminar! This will be held in November 2025 (date TBC). In this seminar we will share our motivations for starting this project, get to know each other a little better, and support participants to write a draft skeleton version of an article that will be peer reviewed before the in-person workshops in Chiang Mai on 5-7 February 2026. Part of the aim of our project is to share all our resources on this website, so that others can use them to teach about w...
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Call for participants!

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  Call for participants! We are excited to announce a new project, funded by the British Academy: Human Rights Education and Activism in South-East Asia: Developing the Publication and Grant-writing Capacity of ECR Scholar-Activists in Challenging Political Times. This project aims to develop the capacity of 24 ECR ‘scholar-activists’ in the fields of human rights education and activism in South-East Asia (SEA) to write for publication, to successfully apply for research funding and to cascade this learning to other scholar-activists.   ------ Project deadline: 5 September 2025 ------ Project activities: 1. Online pre-workshop seminars (October 2025 and January 2026) 2. In-person workshops (5-7 February 2026, Chiang Mai, Thailand) 3. Post-workshop mentoring and dissemination of publications (March 2026-March 2027) ------ Project language: English. ------ Participant/country eligibility : You must be an early career researcher (ECR) who works on huma...
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Human Rights Education and Activism in South-East Asia: Developing the Publication and Grant- writing Capacity of ECR Scholar-Activists in Challenging Political Times (2025-2027)

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Writing workshops funded by the British Academy 🇹🇭 🇵🇭 🇱🇦 🇮🇩 🇲🇾 🇰🇭 🇲🇲 🇻🇳 🇹🇱 🇬🇧  In May 2025, we officially launched the project! Call for participants will be released in July 2025. Watch this space! Led by: Helen Hanna (University of Manchester, UK), Pisith Nasee (Chiang Mai University, Thailand), Chris Millora (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), Ngamsuk Ruttanasattian (Mahidol University, Thailand) Contact: milkteaeducation@gmail.com Hosted by: Chiang Mai University Research Center for Multiculturalism and Education Policy: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Bo4Z7JHqz/
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