Tubtim Tubtim, Regional Program Officer (Chiang Mai, Thailand)

Tubtim is a social science researcher specialising in community-based natural resource management. She obtained a Masters degree at the Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University, in 2001. Her Masters thesis examined common property as enclosure, involving a participatory study of community-based fisheries management in southern Laos. Tubtim is a cotutelle PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University and the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. Her thesis examines the characteristics of peri-urban Chiang Mai in the context of rapid agrarian change and social encounters associated with in-migration into the area.

Tubtim has extensive experience with research projects in Thailand and Lao PDR as well as in facilitating community-level processes throughout the Mekong Region. As AMRC’s regional program officer, Tubtim coordinates the Mekong Learning Initiative, as well as other AMRC activities within the Mekong Region.

Languages: Thai, Lao
Supervisor: Dr Kurt Iveson

Home Office: 224 M. 5, T. Nongkwai, A. Hangdong, Chiang Mai 50230, Thailand
Tel: +66 (0) 819873699
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Selected Publications

• Tubtim, N. and P. Hirsch 2005.Common Property as Enclosure: A Case Study of a Backswamp in Southern Laos." Society and Natural Resources 18: 41-60.