Southeast Asia & Oceania
Region Leader
Tara Alberts
Tara's research explores encounters and exchanges between Europe and Asia between c.1500 and c.1700. Her current project focuses on the circulation of medicines and the exchange of ideas about health and healing on the trade routes of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Southeast Asia
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York Asia Research Network
yarn@york.ac.uk
York Asia Research Network,
Department of History,
University of York,
Heslington, York,
YO10 5DD
Research highlights
SEnSOR
The Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Oil Palm Research Programme is concerned with biodiversity and carbon co-benefits to improve sustainable palm oil.
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IKnowFood
IKnowFood is taking an interdisciplinary multi-stakeholder approach to developing a unifying understanding of ‘food system resilience’ using tools and methods to integrate the knowledge and perspectives of hitherto disparate food system actors.
Photograph courtesy of Professor Bob Doherty
Peacebuilding in Asia
A new strategic network award from the ESRC has been awarded to an early career researcher at York for £92,000, for her network project on comparative peacebuilding in Asia.
Region Members
School for Business and Society
Antonios' research is mainly focused on the political economy of welfare and has published on familistic welfare capitalism, global welfare regimes, informal welfare and gender. He has been part of a team organising workshop activities aiming to encourage regional voices in academic writing and broaden academic networks available to Indonesian and Thai social welfare scholars (funded by British Academy).
International Relations Office
Elisha is the Global Partnerships Coordinator in the International Relations Office.
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School for Business and Society (Chair of Marketing)
Bob's research focuses on the study of hybrid organizations such as social enterprises in the Thai context. What have been the pivotal institutions, networks and cognitive framing leading to the development of the social enterprise sector and how does this impact on managing the dual social and commercial logics.
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Politics
Claire's main research interest is in comparative political scientist focusing on conflict and peace studies, especially in Southeast Asia. Other research interests include: democratisation, war-to-peace transitions, humanitarian interventions, ethno-religious violence, mass atrocities, civil war, politics of development in contested states, Indonesia, Myanmar and Timor-Leste. Secondary interests in horizontal inequalities, gender politics, multicultural citizenship and political Islam.
Health Sciences (PhD student)
Darius’s main research interests include: Global health; health economics and health insurance; health system in developing countries; policy evaluation using cross-section and panel data. His PhD project is on the evaluation of health insurance in Indonesia.
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Biology
Jane's research areas are: the impacts of habitat loss on biodiversity (esp rainforest species); testing environmental sustainability criteria of oil palm cultivation; impacts of climate change on species' distributions, and role of habitat connectivity.
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Department of Economics and Related Studies (PhD student)
Jahen's research interests are in Indonesia, Development Economics, Political Economics, Applied Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics.
Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU)
Janaka's research aims to develop new knowledge on dealing with uncertainties and dangers presented by disasters and conflicts in the region. He is collaborating with communities and institutions in countries such as Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Pacific Islands.
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Education
Jan's research interests include teaching and learning.
Stockholm Environment Institute
Jessica's research focuses on integrated air pollution and climate change planning in countries in South and South East Asia. She has worked on various action plans related to both the mitigation of greenhouse gases and air pollutants, linking these plans to other co-benefits with a particular focus on health.
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School for Business and Society
Karen’s research is concerned with labour economics and human resource management, her research topics include: wage bargaining; industrial disputation; the relative labour market position of women; job satisfaction; implications from considering networks; and consequences from using the family as the unit of analysis (including domestic violence).
Environment
Katherine is working on a project on Thailand: sea level changes from mangroves environments during the Holocene. She is also hoping to develop some work on pollen, health and air pollution in that region.
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Centre of Applied Human Rights, York Law School
Martin's research examines the role of the law, the legal professional and legal processes and institutions in protection, with a particular focus on the protection of refugees and activists at risk (human rights defenders).
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Politics (PhD student)
Ninh's research interests include Vietnam and its foreign policy towards China and the US, which is seen to greatly affect the Southeast Asia region's stability and peace.
School for Business and Society
My research interests include internationalisation of Anglo-American professional associations in emerging market economies (Asian economies).
Environment
Richard's research interest include transformations of rural society and urbanization; political economy of urbanization and changing patterns of poverty, vulnerability and risk; environmental governance and rights; development, climate change and natural disasters; specialist interest in Thailand and the Mekong region.
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Education / Language and Linguistic Science
Rui Qi studies the bilingual language acquisition of Mandarin and English in Singaporean children.
Economics and Related Studies (PhD student)
Suska is researching multidimensional inequality, income mobility, poverty, subjective well-being, informal labour and the fiscal policy of Indonesia.
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Global Opportunities, International Recruitment, Partnerships and Mobility (IRPM)
I'm interested in events, funding and study exchange opportunities for York students in Asia.
Accounting and Finance
My research interests include management accounting; Labour control; tea plantation; political discourse; Bangladesh; ready-made garments; identity
Department of History
Tara is a Lecturer in Early Modern History. Tara's research explores on encounters and exchanges between Europe and Asia between c.1500 and c.1700. Tara's current project focuses on the circulation of medicines and the exchange of ideas about health and healing on the trade routes of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Southeast Asia.
Health sciences
My research interests are on what learning approaches empower girls and women from marginalised and rural backgrounds, focusing on women folk from South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Her work focuses on raising awareness of the implications on health and wellbeing and community wellbeing by contemporary and non-mainstream pedagogical approaches within the context of disasters, conflict and uneven development.
History
Reza's research interests are in the intersection between consumerism, modernity, and intercultural exchange in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore during the early twentieth century. He is also interested in HSTM (history of science, technology, and medicine), bureaucracy, and identity in Southeast Asia.
Education (Psychology in Education)
My main research interests are learning difficulties and neuroeducation.
Contact us
York Asia Research Network
yarn@york.ac.uk
York Asia Research Network,
Department of History,
University of York,
Heslington, York,
YO10 5DD