10/07/2025
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Call for participants!
We are excited to announce a new project, funded by the British Academy: Human Rights Education and Activism in South-East Asia: Developing the Publication and Grant-writing Capacity of ECR Scholar-Activists in Challenging Political Times. This project aims to develop the capacity of 24 ECR ‘scholar-activists’ in the fields of human rights education and activism in South-East Asia (SEA) to write for publication, to successfully apply for research funding and to cascade this learning to other scholar-activists.
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Project language: English.
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Participant/country eligibility: It is a criteria of the project that you must be an early career researcher who works on human rights education and/or activism issues, who is be based in, or does research on, the following countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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The detailed selection criteria are as follows:
(i) ECR within the fields of human rights education and activism with a research focus on South-east Asia within 10 years of PhD completion. If you do not hold a PhD but hold similar experience, please email us to discuss.
(ii) ECR with no more than 1 publication in any academic or human rights outlet in any language.
(iii) ECR who can evidence their ability to speak, listen read and write to IELTS 6 level in English, either through certification or written work e.g., from previous study. Please contact us if this is difficult to evidence.
(iv) Submission of an abstract of a paper that you will work on during the workshop programme.
(v) Committed to writing a draft skeleton paper ahead of the in-person workshop, with support from the pre-workshop seminars.
(vi) Committed to travelling and participating in a 3-day residential workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 5-7 February.
(vii) Interested in contributing to a journal Special Issue proposal.
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All travel, accommodation and workshop expenses will be funded. We also have additional funding for those with additional needs, e.g., childcare or eldercare that is needed to enable you to attend the workshop, disabilities.
We have funding for the following participants:
- Scholar-activists travelling from within Thailand: 11 people
- Scholar-activists travelling from outside Thailand but from within South-east Asian (limited to Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam: 10 people
- Scholar-activists travelling from outside South-east Asia: 3 people
We are committed to achieving gender parity in terms of participants, and so in order to achieve this, the above funding allocations may vary slightly.
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Please apply using the following form: https://forms.gle/WTnXM9dap453yVZi8
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For any queries, please contact the project administrator via email: [email protected]
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