Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bereich Sozialanthropologie (Prof. Nguyen)
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bereich Sozialanthropologie (Prof. Nguyen)
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bereich Sozialanthropologie (Prof. Nguyen)
EDUCATION
2013-2018
PhD Degree in Social Anthropology. Goldsmiths, University of London.
2014
Intensive Lao language study at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison equivalent to a full year’s language study (pass with distinction)
2013-2014
Postgraduate Certificate in Research Training, University of Hull
2011-2013
Master of Applied Social Research (Sociology and Anthropology), University of Hull
2002-2005
Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons) Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018-ongoing
Research Associate in the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2016-2018
Associate Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology. Goldsmiths, University of London
2014-2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hull
I am also a qualified immigration lawyer and worked full time giving legal advice to asylum seekers in the UK between 2006 and 2011.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
September 2018
Bielefeld Young Researcher Award
June 2018
Early Career Award from the Association of Southeast Asian Studies UK for post-doctoral research
February 2018
Sutasoma/Radcliffe Brown Trust award administered by the Royal Anthropological Institute for outstanding doctoral research
August 2017
Goldsmiths Anthropology Department additional funding award
June 2016
Funds for Women Graduates scholarship for maintenance and living expenses
May 2016
Richard Stapeley Trust scholarship for maintenance and living expenses
May 2016
Goldsmiths Graduate School conference funding award
June 2015
Emslie Horniman Scholarship Fund award for doctoral fieldwork from the Royal Anthropological Institute
March 2015
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore conference funding award
June 2014
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute University of Wisconsin-Madison tuition fee scholarship (for Lao language)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Southeast Asian Studies UK
Association for Asian Studies
Centre for Lao studies
European Association of Social Anthropologists
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Currently I am pursuing a project entitled ‘One world: one dream? The rise of China in Laos’, which aims to document perceptions of China in Laos through the building of the Lao-China Railway under China’s One Belt: One Road initiative.
I am also interested in digital ethnography.