2020 Fieldwork Scholarship Awardee
andar.nubowo irasec.com
Mr. Andar NUBOWO is a doctoral student in philosophy and epistemology at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Under the supervision of Mr. Makram Abbes and Mr. Rémy Madinier, his thesis is on "The genesis of a current of Islam of the just middle : a sociohistory of the currents of Indonesian progressive Islam". Associate Research Fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, (...)

Pal nyi'ri is professor of global history in an anthropological perspective at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His most recent book is Mobility and Cultural Authority in Contemporary China (University of Washington Press, 2010). He is currently writing an ethnography of how Chinese correspondents report on the world.
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Dr. Tom Obokata is a Japanese scholar, a Lecturer in Law and the Assistant Director of the Human Rights Centre of the Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. His research focus has been on the trafficking of human beings and he has served as a Specialist Advisor on Trafficking to the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights. Previously, he was an independent expert for a joint European Union/Council of Europe project on the subject. In 2006, he published a book entitled (...)

Head of Department of Urban and Regional Planning,
Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University
Khaisri Paksukcharern (Ph.D.) is now the Head of Department of Urban and Regional Planning and currently teaches at Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University. She has also co-established Urban Design Development Center (UddC), the first of its kind in Thailand, acting as an academic and professional platform for urban regeneration projects in Bangkok since October 2012. (...)

Dr. Florence Pasnik is a French Health Economist (PhD in Economic Sciences, University La Sorbonne) with more than 20 years of-professional experience in the field of public health, she is the founder and director of the NGO AIDéTouS (Association Internationale pour le Développement, le tourisme et la Santé : France, Cambodia, Madagascar, Burkina Faso).
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Patarapong Intarakumnerd is Deputy Director of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program and Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan. He is a regional editor and member of international editorial boards of several international journals relating to innovation management and policies. He has worked as an advisor/consultant for the World Bank, UNESCO, UNCTAD, OECD, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), German Development (...)

Eva Pejsova joined the EUISS in January 2014. She works on the Asia-Pacific region, following security developments in East Asia, EU-Asia relations and maritime security issues. She also manages regular dialogues with EU’s strategic partners in Asia and coordinates the EU membership at the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP).
Eva holds a PhD in Strategic Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore, with a focus on maritime (...)

Ahmad-Norma PERMATA is a political scientist interested in the intersections between religious piety and the pragmatism of political competitions. He is working mostly with new-institutional and cognitive theories, in understanding the way actors adjust their religious commitments and self interest calculations to proceed morally sound AND self interestedly advantageous political behaviours. He published his studies on how religiously conservative groups became politically pragmatic after (...)

Awardee the IRASEC 2018 Field Scholarships

Louise Perrodin is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Paris-Est, France. She holds a research Master in political science and international relations from Sciences Po Paris. In her research, she focuses on international norms relating to the right to asylum based on the Malaysian case study.
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Deputy Director of IRASEC from 2014 to 2018
Research Topics
Environmental policies and sustainable development in Thailand, governance and preservation of forest resources. Anthropology of nature, cosmologies and rituals, relationships between humans and non-humans, spiritual landscapes. Hybridization of knowledge systems on nature. Land issues and civil society in Thailand. Social uses of the Internet, digital humanities, open access.
Experience
Abigaël Pesses is conducting (...)