Research Interest:
1. Language and Culture
2. Southeast Asian religious and socio-cultural perspectives
3. Multicultural diversity in India and ASEAN
4. India-ASEAN people to people connectivity
5. Indian diaspora in Southeast Asia
6. Language policy
7. Migration in Southeast Asia
Morakot Meyer
Ph.D. (History and Civilization)
Associate Professor
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia
Research Interest:
1. Contemporary Thai, Southeast Asian and European history
2. ASEAN, regional integration, and multicultural ASEAN
3. Transnational migration, multiculturalism and multicultural competency
4. Cultural politics, cultural policy, museum, multiculturalism and nationalism
5. International relations of ASEAN and its members with other key players in Asia from the perspectives of cultural politics and conceptual history
6. Cultural, socio-economic and political impacts of COVID-19 pandemic
Research Interest:
1. Health services research
2. Evaluation research
3. Transnational Health Care
4. Access to care
5. Organization theories
6. Quantitative research methodology
Research Interest:
1. Political Economy
2. Area Studies (ASEAN, China and East Asia)
3. State-Society Relations
4. Trade and Investment Issues
5. Trade and Development
6. Foreign Investment and Social and Economic Impacts
7. Developmental Studies
8. Social and Economic Development Policy
9. Labour Migration
10. Cross-border Issues
11. Economic Geography
Research Interest:
1. Music Education
2. Piano Performance and Pedagogy
3. Music Therapy
4. Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research
5. Performing Arts Medicine
6. Higher Education
7. Comparative Education
8. Business Administration and Management
Suphatmet Yunyasit
Ph.D. (Anthropology and Sociology)
Lecturer
Project for The Establishment of The Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies
Research Interest:
1. Buddhist minority in Malaysia, ethnic minority identity, religious minority group and majority-minority interaction
2. Anthropology of Peace, Religion in Conflict, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
3. Urban Anthropology
4. Community theory and identity formation and consolidation
5. Malaysian and Southeast Asian Studies and Conflict Transformation in Southeast Asian context
Research Interest:
1. Environmental management
2. Sustainable development
3. Environmental health
4. Occupational health and safety
5. Environmental biotechnology
6. One health
Research Interest:
1. Healthy Urban Planning and Management
2. Environmental and Health Risk Perception and Assessment
3. Environmental Health Policy and Planning
4. Strategic Sustainability Assessment
5. Community-based Risk Management and Resilience Assessment
Sureeporn Punpuing
Ph.D. (Resource Management and Environmental Sciences)
Research Interest:
1. Demography
2. Population-environment interactions and health
3. Migration and Health
4. Cross-border Migration
5. International Migration
Research Interest:
1. Plant Systematics and Evolution: surveys of plant resource diversity, review their taxonomic status, and infer their phylogenetic relationship
2. Plant Molecular Biology: study of taxonomic lineage using DNA technology
3. Botany Education: enhancing botanical learning ability via structural models and innovative computer software and curriculum
4. Ethnobotany: study of plant uses in ethnic tribes
5. Scientific Illustrations: study benefits of illustrations to science study
Research Interest:
1. Inclusive Education
2. Inclusion and Participation of Persons with Disabilities
3. Access to Information, Media and Technology
4. Disability Rights
5. Blind and Low Vision Studies
Vachararutai Boontinand
Ph.D (Human Rights and Peace Studies)
Lecturer
Project for The Establishment of The Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies
Research Interest:
1. Democratic Citizenship Education
2. Critical theory and pedagogy
3. Gender and women''s rights
4. Rights-based approach to development
5. Labor migration and trafficking