[Tlc] The Announcement for Visiting Scholars and Small Research Grants, Year 2008-2009

Tue Apr 22 17:34:34 PDT 2008

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From: RCSD Chiang Mai University [mailto:rcsd at chiangmai.ac.th] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 15:32
To: RCSD Chiang Mai University
Subject: The Announcement for Visiting Scholars and Small Research
Grants, Year 2008-2009

To Whom It May Concern,

The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development
(RCSD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University would like to
inform you about the announcement for RCSD Visiting Scholar and Small
Research Grants, Year 2008-2009.  The fellowships aim to enhance
capacity of human resources in the Mekong Region by using social
sciences tools in exploring and understanding changes, relationships and
complexity of issues such as transborder, resource management,
ethnicity, cultural diversity, etc. in the context of regionalized
development. It also aims to enhance understanding, information sharing
and mutual learning regarding emerging issues of the Mekong Region,
linked to a deeper and boarder conceptual understanding and analysis.

The Visiting Scholar Fellowships will be granted to academics,
researchers, NGO workers from countries in the Mekong Region who would
like to spend time in a dynamic multidisciplinary academic environment
at RCSD for a period of three to six months. Fellows will be requested
to write working papers based on their research projects and areas of
their respective interests. 

The Small Research Grants will provide the opportunity for interested
people who are from both the academic and non-academic sectors such as a
non-government organizations and media, etc to conduct research in the
areas of social science and sustainable development focusing on the
Mekong Region. Mid-career researchers, NGOs workers, development
practitioners, and M.A and Ph.D. students who are pursuing their field
research are eligible to applying for the research grants. 

Both fellowships will be open to interested scholars, researchers, NGO
workers, and media from countries in the Mekong Region whose
citizenships were Thailand and neighboring countries in the Mekong
Region namely; Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Southwest China only. RCSD
will provide support which includes a monthly stipend, traveling costs,
health insurance, books and supplies for the visiting scholars. As for
Small Research Grants, the grant will also include monthly stipend,
field research expenses and book and supplies.

Please find the announcement enclosed and an application form. It would
be grateful if this information could be made available to the wider
public and those who are interested applying for the fellowships. More
information can be obtained by accessing our webpage: 
http://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th <http://rcsd.soc.cmu.ac.th/>  or contact us at
rcsd at chiangmai.ac.th.   

I would appreciate your kind attention to this matter.

Sincerely yours,

Chayan Vaddhanaphuti , Ph.D.

Director

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