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Director, Indonesia-Britain Education Centre (IBEC)

Satyadhi Hendra, with over 25 years of experience in the education business, began his career as the Personal Assistant to the Managing Director of KING'S Group of Education. Simultaneously, he worked as a junior counsellor at IBEC, receiving training from the British Council in both Indonesia and Manchester. Since 2003, he has served as the company's director. 

Indonesia: Tiara Brahmarani 
UK: Liina Turtonen  

Sonic Moves is a project that brings together electronic music and inclusive dance to create performances led by disabled women. It involves one disabled dance artist from the UK and five disabled artists from Bali, working together to develop a performance that mixes movement with music technology. The project will start with online workshops and continue with a five-day residency in Bali.

Executive Director, MABECS, Malaysia

Devina Sivagurunathan is the Executive Director of MABECS, Malaysia’s most experienced UK education agency. Devina has 20 years of student recruitment experience in Malaysia and the UK. She was an International Officer at The University of Warwick and SOAS, University of London. She had a short foray into the world of football when she spent a year as the International Marketing Manager at UCFB. 

UK: Scott Wilson, BEAST

Indonesia: Rumah Gagas

Panjago means 'guardian'. We aim to protect the vibrancy of our traditions while renewing them in international artistic collaborations. This project will combine the traditional movement art of Silek with 360-degree immersive electronic music and improvisation. ‘Live coding' techniques and interactive electronic music systems will create 'surround sound' over the 32-channel BEASTdome system.

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.