Yiu Chu Kong received his PhD in Police Studies in the University of Exeter in the UK in 1997. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Fellow in the Centre for Criminology at the University of Hong Kong. He is also one of the founding members of the Asian Association of Police Studies (AAPS) and the Hong Kong Juvenile Delinquency Research Society (HKJDRS). He has been invited by various police forces in Asia and Europe to give guest lectures on Chinese (...)

Architect, professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), former dean.

Supat CHUPRADIT (CELS, Faculty of Education, Chiang Mai University) is a PhD student in Research and Development in Education. His thesis topic deals with dual vocational training in secondary education in Thailand, and its role in skills and knowledge formation and transmission. He has taken part in CELS-conducted research projects, including the one funded by NRCT (National Research Council of Thailand) on education and (...)

Étienne Clément is a lawyer (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB, 1978), specialised in international law and cultural heritage law. As a UNESCO official from 1984 to 2015, he contributed to the elaboration of international conventions for the protection of cultural heritage (illicit trafficking, armed conflict, underwater heritage). He headed the UNESCO offices in Cambodia and the Pacific. He was Deputy Director of Field Operations (at Headquarters in Paris) and of the Asia-Pacific Regional (...)

Jayeel Serrano CORNELIO is the Director of the Development Studies Program at the Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. He writes on Christianity and society. He is also the author of Being Catholic in the Contemporary Philippines : Young People Reinterpreting Religion (...)

Guilhem Cousin-Thorez is a contract doctoral candidate in history at Aix-Marseille University, affiliated with IrAsia (UMR 7306). His research focuses on the contemporary religious and political history of Vietnam and on the modernization of Buddhism in the twentieth century. His dissertation examines the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV, in Vietnamese Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Thống Nhất, 1964–1975), privileging local sources and dynamics to analyze the UBCV as a project of Buddhist (...)

Dr. Soizick Crochet is a French Social Anthropologist (PhD in Social Anthropology, University Paris X, France) working as an independent scholar. Member of the Research Centre “Cultures, Santé, Sociétés” (CReCSS. JE 2424, University Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseilles 3). Her on-going research includes children and women health, HIV transmission and the socio-cultural dimension of hygiene in Cambodia. She spent several years investigating in Cambodia, on behalf of the CNRS and other institutions, (...)

Member of the team of ANR FORSEA
Magali Croese is a PhD Student at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam) in Paris, member of LISE (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Economic Sociology), joint research unit Cnam-CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research). She holds a master’s degree in human resources management and sociology of work from Cnam and a master’s degree in materials engineering and supply chain management from Polytech’ Montpellier. After a first career in (...)

Chercheur

Joseph Nathan Cruz a un master en études littéraires et est doctorant en sociologie à l’Université nationale de Singapour. Ses recherches portent sur la sociologie de la religion et les migrations ; il est aussi intéressé par l’idée de modernité et la mondialisation. Après avoir passé son enfance en milieu rural, avec ses parents il migre à Manille où il est élevé dans des bidonvilles. Il est donc attentif aux luttes et aux stratégies quotidiennes des pauvres tout autant qu’aux (...)

Resident Researcher from 2008 to 2011
Dr. Christian Culas, Anthropologist at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Centre Norbert Elias (UMR 8562), EHESS, Marseille, France.
He is in charge of the Franco-Vietnamese cooperation project for the study of social change and development in Vietnam (2010-2012), collaboration between the Norbert Elias Centre (EHESS-CNRS, Marseille), the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Lao Cai province (Vietnam) and the Institut (...)