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The arts and research festival in Yangon is launching now. @EMReF_Myanmar Director Myat Thet Thitsar opens by talking of our shared humanity; @jaskaurphd talks about the importance of nurturing relationships and working with each other’s rhythms... 
And Sayama Ma Thida of PEN Myanmar gives a powerful keynote speech about art as the search for truth, and for us to consider research as art too. @ahrcpress
Panel discussion: pursuing arts in research.
Arts and research are natural collaborators and the festival is paving the way to amplify the potential of this relationship
Arts and research are natural collaborators and the festival is paving the way to amplify the potential of this relationship
Today our #P4P Grant project spotlight shifts to #Myanmar, and Dan Seng Lawn (@dansenglawn) & Maran Ja Htoi Pan's examination of political representation of the ethnic Kachin people in Kachin state.
This is @dansenglawn's second #P4P Grant. His first was for a project analysing discourses of representation, instability and exclusion in newspapers in the post-Independence period in #Myanmar, with special reference to Kachin state; & included @britishlibrary archival research.
The new project brings into focus the unresolved and tense relationship between unionism, federalism, and minority rights in Myanmar.
Today's #P4P Grant spotlight falls on yet another vital and timely project, led by Assefa Fiseha and Nicole Beardsworth (@NixiiB), and examining #Ethiopia's youth and their relationship with state and federal politics.
Young #Ethiopians affected by recent protests in the country form an integral part of this research: they will be trained in ethnographic video-making to help express their unfiltered views on access to political representation and representatives.
These ethnographic films will then form the foundation for conversations and advocacy with state and federal level politicians, in order to improve their engagement with, and outreach amongst, #Ethiopia's youth and make them part of critical reform processes in the country.
Next up, we are thrilled to introduce you to the #P4P Grant project team of Netsanet Gebramichael and Aklile Solomon (@aklile_solomon), two leading #Ethiopian feminists whose research will explore Ethiopian women's resistance to political exclusion from the 1970s onwards.
Netsanet Gebramichael is a lecturer at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, and previously worked as Director of Addis Ababa University's gender office as well as being a Social Science Research Council Fellow.
@aklile_solomon has worked as a women's rights activist for more than eight years. She has received the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, and has co-founded Addis Ababa University's Yellow Movement, which generates dialogue about gender-based violence
We are mid-way through our #P4P programme, which supports #Ethiopia and #Myanmar based researchers studying issues of political representation, participation and engagement in the global south, using approaches that integrate the arts and humanities... @ahrcpress @GCRF @SOAS
So, all this week we'll be sharing news of our latest #P4P Grant awardees and their projects...
1st up are Mikiyas Bekele Kidane (@MickyEthiopia), Abel Wabella (@Abelpoly), Solen G. Megersa (@solen_gemechu) & Michael Million - with 'The Participation of Target Groups in Civil Society Organizations and the Role of Civil Society Organizations in Federal Law-Making Processes'
Unlocking the Creative Potentials of Research workshop is underway in Yangon with introductions by the ‘Reducing Inequalities in Public Engagement’ #RIPE team
We're committing to ourselves to #DecarbonisingResearch. Join the conversation, share your practices, and let's commit together to thinking and doing research differently @ahrcpress @SOAS @GCRF @Changing_Story_ @NahreinNetwork @rftdnetwork @AKNetwork1 @KeyTravel
Since 2017 the #GRNPP team has worked with partners in Myanmar and Ethiopia to discuss and imagine what democratic politics might look like in a more engaged and inclusive political world.
Our approach is based on the creation and maintenance of strong and enduring networks. Skype is nice but nothing beats meeting face-to-face. But we recognise that travel comes at a cost.
