Thailand
Imperial College London
Punnapa Yoswaris aims to address climate change through interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration with the Grantham Institute. She seeks to advance her career in sustainable consulting services by integrating climate science with business principles.
Indonesia: Rona Mentari
UK: ROY GAL-OR
This cross-cultural collaboration between storytellers from Indonesia and the UK, reimagines folktales to address today’s ecological crisis. Online sessions, research, and an in-person residency in Indonesia will help the artists craft and perform a storytelling work, weaving together ancestral wisdom with environmental themes.
Singapore
Precision Medicine at the University of Manchester
Su Wei Lim was given a toy microscope as a young child, and it mesmerised her. That curiosity about how things work at a microscopic level grew stronger. Her MSc will give her the tools to work at the intersection of genomics, data science, and healthcare, enabling her to contribute to Singapore’s growing national precision medicine efforts, developing personalised and effective healthcare solutions.
Vietnam
University of Warwick
Ha Phuong Thao Nguyen is working on developing skills to support her ambition to become an impact entrepreneur. She has engineering skills and wants to learn business management in this area before establishing a startup.
UK: Karel Doing
Indonesia: Lab Laba-Laba
“Patterned Vegetation” is a collaboration by Lab Laba-Laba and Karel Doing that explores the challenges of analogue filmmaking and seeks an alternative approach to capture and narrate ecological shifts in the West Java rainforest. This project will focus on a technique called Phytography. Refined by Karel Doing, phytography uses the internal chemistry of plants to make detailed images on photographic emulsion.
Thailand
Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Manchester
Tayida has been drawn to the way science tackles questions and searches for answers since childhood. She believes that studying Clinical Biochemistry will help her to pursue a career in diagnostics and pharmaceutical research. She hopes to build bridges between research in Thailand and the UK and help position Thai scientific contributions more prominently on the world stage.
Indonesia: Bakudapan Food Study Group
UK: Matthew Austin
The Hunger Tales is a collaboration between Bakudapan Food Study Group and Bristol curator/producer Matthew Austin. It explores the politics of food in changing cities through play and storytelling. At the centre is a board game, redesigned as an open-source tool for communities to share and reshape food stories.
Country Head for Vietnam, AECC Global, Vietnam
A UK alumnus with a commitment to international education, Van specializes in student mobility rooted in career orientation. He has represented Bournemouth University across Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, and now serves on AECC's global leadership team, focusing on strategic partnerships and sustainable recruitment practices.
Vietnam
University of Warwick
Lam Ngoc Ngan aims to improve healthcare quality in rural Vietnam. With an interest in cancer research, she has identified individuals she would like to learn from at University of Warwick. She intends to work in an academic institution to study cervical cancer after graduation.
Deputy Head of International and Postgraduate Recruitment
The University of Edinburgh
Louise Tracey is Deputy Head of International and Postgraduate Recruitment at the University of Edinburgh. With over 20 years’ experience in Scottish higher education, she has focused on international admissions and student recruitment. She also serves as Chair of the BUILA Southeast Asia Regional Interest Group, championing sector-wide collaboration.