Amphone Vongsouphanh

visiting researcher/lecturer

 

E-Mail: a.vongsouphanh@nuol.edu.la

 

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Current Research Project:

PhD candidate on the title: Re-thinking the Agricultural Cooperative Movements in Laos: A Diachronic Appraisal from the Revolutionary Period to the Developmentalist Era

Fields of Research:

• Cooperative Movement in Laos (Self-Help Groups, Production Group and Cooperative).
• Community dialogue, movements and organizing
• Rural Development
• Social Protection and Resetlement Management
• Child Early, and Forced Marriage
• Gender Empowerment and Gender-Based Violence

Short CV

Present Position

Deputy Head of Social Work and Community Development Department, Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), National University of Laos (NUOL), Lao PDR.
Director of Research and Training Center on Social Impact Assessment and Resettlement Management (RTC), FSS, NUOL

Educational background

2002-2007 BA in political sicience from the National University of Laos, Lao PDR

2015-2016 MA in development practice from the University of Queensland, Australia.

2022-2025. A PhD candidate at ULB, Brussels, Belgium.


Work experiences  

Amphone is an expert in community dialogue & movements, rural development, and community organizing. His research also focuses on rural development, child marriage, gender empowerment and cooperative systems in Laos (Self-Help Groups, Production Group, and Cooperative). He has about 15 years of experience as a researcher and lecturer at the National University of Laos (NUOL) and in research collaboration with national and international development agencies. He has also been assigned as a project coordinator for many project collaborations such as: Erasmus+ on student and staff mobility program between NUOL and ULB, Belgium; Save Children International (SCI) on child protection and gender-based violence; Sae Maul Undong (new village movement) with a focus on community development and movement; UNFPA on Development of social work counseling program of NUOL; and UNICEF on evaluating and improving social work curriculum of NUOL. With his expertise, he has also been a national research consultant for a number of international organizations such as ACIAR (small-scale agricultural development), and PLAN International Laos, on child early marriage and Comprehensive Sexuality Education.


Selected research & consultancy projetcs

1. Vongsouphanh, A. (2024). Informal Knowledge-Based Learning Approaches: Case Study of Bamboo and Bio-compost Production Promotion in Laos. National University of Laos, Laos
2. Vongsouphanh, A. (2024). Forestry-Area-Conservation Ecotourism and Local Sustainability: Namkat Yolapa Ecotourism Project, Oudomxai province. National University of Laos, Laos;
3. A research consultant for Plan International Laos on the research project collaboration “Informative Studies on Parents/guardians Engagement in CSE Access for Adolescent boys and girls in Northern Laos, August to December 2021.   
4. A national consultant on the research project: Child Early Marriage in Paktha district, Bokeo Province, Lao PDR for Gender Development Association (September-December 2020). This project is under the EU funded project “Ethnic Girls Rights Advocacy” Project, (March 2018 – February 2021). Gender Development Association and Plan International Laos supported this research study.
5. A joint research project with National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) and National Institute for Economic Research (NIER) on the project Stakeholder Analysis of Agricultural Cooperative in Laos: Current status and ways forwards funded by Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) (1-12/2021)
6. A lead consultant for the research project: The 16-Year Experiences of Poverty Reduction Fund in Community Driven Development in Rural Laos under the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Fund (1-12/2020);
7. A joint research project with National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) on agricultural cooperative Development in rural Laos: Challenges and opportunities funded by Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Fund (1-12/2020);
8. Petit, P in collaboration with Singthong, S., & Vongsouphanh, A. (2020). The Past inside the Present: History, Memory, and Territorial Cults among the Tai Vat of Laos. London: Routledge.
9. A national consultant on the research project “Understanding Drill Seeding of Rice (DSR) techniques and business models in southern Lao PDR for sustaining adoption funded by ACIAR, Australia (6/2018-9/2019);
10. Data analysis and literature reviewer for the Feminism and Agriculture Transition Employment in Southern Laos project funded by Bern University, Switzerland (1/2017 to 12/2021)

Follwoships

From 12.07.2024 to 12.10.2024 and 13.12.2024 to 11.09.2025 (12 months), a secondment as a visiting researcher at Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen, Germany through a project called PRELAB – Precarious Labour in Asia: Exploring Challenges and Solution to Labour Insecurity through Case-Study-Based Evidence from 8 Asian Countries (GA no. 101129940)

 
Lecture Courses

• Social Protection Systems
• Social Safeguards
• Project Planning and Management
• Research Methodology
• Child Rights
• Child Positive Disciplines