9 Minutes To ReadYaw Bawm Mangshang shares a hopeful story of environmental recovery in Shan State. In today’s world, the daily news is overwhelmingly bleak with both man-made and natural disasters. Uplifting stories […]
Tags: economy, environment, opium, policy, research, Shan State
March 1, 2026
9 Minutes To ReadShona Loong, Anders Kirstein Moeller, Radka Antalikova, Dan Seng Lawn, Peter Suante The authors reflect on the politics of producing borderland knowledge in Myanmar after the coup.
Tags: autonomy, borderlands, education, knowledge production, marginalization, research
July 21, 2025
2 Minutes To ReadThe hybrid 15th International Burma Studies Conference will be held from 9-11 June 2023 at the University of Zurich.
Tags: burma studies, featured, research
November 7, 2022
2 Minutes To ReadUpcoming event: Social Research and the Internet in Post-coup Myanmar (December 7, 8:30pm MMT/ 9am EST) “Cyberspace and Freedom of Expression in Post-coup Myanmar” Join Tea Circle and the SecDev Foundation on Tuesday, 7 December […]
Tags: event, internet, myanmar coup, research, social media
December 2, 2021
8 Minutes To ReadIn Part 2 of a 2-part post on digital conduct concerning Myanmar, Benedict Mette-Starke lays out practical digital communication considerations for Myanmar scholars and others outside Myanmar. Avoiding Pitfalls in Engaging with […]
Tags: activism, digital rights, digital security, ethics, research
March 15, 2021
8 Minutes To ReadBenedict Mette-Starke analyses Myanmar digital communication considerations in Part 1 of a 2-part post on digital conduct concerning Myanmar.
Tags: activism, communication, digital rights, digital security, ethics, media, research
5 Minutes To ReadMatt Venker, Nicole, and Ma Ei Ei consider the role that foreign researchers can play in the critical time after the coup.
Tags: activism, Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), democracy, research
February 10, 2021
5 Minutes To ReadFrancesco Obino, Zaw Oo and Edgard Rodriguez introduce a report on the state of social science research in Myanmar.
Tags: development, equity, ethics, higher education, myanmar, policy, research
July 27, 2020
6 Minutes To ReadEdgard Rodriguez considers the role of investing in think tanks to support Myanmar’s ongoing reforms.
Tags: democracy, development, policy, research
February 26, 2020
3 Minutes To ReadRadka Antalikova discusses the newly launched Graduate Research Diploma on peacebuilding and research at the Thabyay Education Foundation.
Tags: conflict, peace, peacebuilding, research, Thabyay Education Foundation
July 5, 2018
15 Minutes To ReadDavid Scott Mathieson suggests new ways to understand the world’s oldest civil war.
Tags: burma studies, conflict, conflict studies, ethnic conflict, insurgency, journalism, policy, research
May 7, 2018
3 Minutes To ReadKyaw Sint urges Facebook to be more proactive in engaging in Myanmar.
Tags: Facebook, hate speech, journalism, research, social media
April 12, 2018
4 Minutes To ReadAlice Dawkins describes discoveries in the uncatalogued section of the Australian National University’s Menzies Library.
Tags: archives, history, research, socialism
March 19, 2018
4 Minutes To ReadImage by Nikita Ti Call for Submissions: SOAS-Oxford Graduate Student Workshop: “New Directions in Research on Myanmar”11-14 June 2018
Tags: research
February 9, 2018
8 Minutes To ReadJoanna Dolińska discusses features of community interpreting in Myanmar.
Tags: interpreting, language, research
November 23, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadPia Jolliffe interviews anthropologist Mikael Gravers.
Tags: anthropology, ethnicity, Karen, nationalism, research
July 6, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadPia Jolliffe interviews anthropologist Mikael Gravers.
Tags: anthropology, ethnic conflict, ethnicity, Karen, nationalism, research
July 5, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadEMReF researchers consider the role of Myanmar’s local parliaments.
Tags: civil society, democracy, federalism, law, research
May 17, 2017
12 Minutes To ReadGiulia Garbagni draws on the St Antony’s archives to describe the Karen petition for statehood.
Tags: archives, history, Karen, nation-building, research, United Nations (UN)
April 19, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadThe Programme on Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in collaboration with SOAS, University of London, will host a Graduate Student Workshop entitled “New Directions in Research […]
Tags: research
December 21, 2016
4 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind suggests new ways to understand change and its manifestations in Myanmar.
Tags: land, research, transition
May 11, 2016
4 Minutes To ReadMatthew Walton considers the range of topics in recent work on Myanmar.
Tags: burma studies, Burmese, democracy, Karen, refugees, religious conflict, research
November 4, 2015