Project team
This Wellcome Trust funded project is led by NatCen International in collaboration with the University of Bristol, and with key partners in Vietnam: the SocialLife Research Institute, the Vietnam Medical Association and the Institute for Development and Community Health "Light".
Anh Ngoc Vu (PhD) Anh is a Research Director and Climate Change Lead at NatCen International, the global social policy arm of the UK’s National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). Her work addresses critical areas including socio-political dimensions of climate change impacts and solutions, clean energy and energy justice, agrarian conflicts, resilience, and the climate change-health nexus. | |
Jonathan Rigg (PhD) University of Bristol Jonathan is Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. He works on livelihoods in Southeast and South Asia, with an interest in development transitions, migration, and rural-urban relations. | |
Felicity Kersting Felicity is a Senior Researcher at NatCen International, National Centre for Social Research (UK). She focuses on issues related to migration and asylum, particularly examining experiences of in/exclusion and marginalisation. | |
Sherman Tai Sherman is a Researcher at NatCen International. He has an MSc in Political Sociology from LSE and his interests are in social movements, citizenship and migration. He specialises in the quantitative analysis of surveys and qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews. | |
Melanie Reixach-Wong Melanie is a Project Manager at NatCen International. Her experience studying for an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford provides Melanie with intensive research experience in international development with a specialty on transitional justice, Indigenous social movements, and history and politics in southern Africa. |
Through rigorous research, training, advisory services and policy engagement, we work to empower societies to shape policy and practice globally.
We are a multidisciplinary team with expertise in a wide range of international development and social policy areas including peace, conflict and security, countering violent extremism and terrorism, migration, climate change, health, philanthropy, civic engagement, education, economic growth, gender, humanitarian policy and human rights. We have a successful track record in leading projects, large and small, and expertise in complex project and consortium management.
Our work is global, and we work in partnership with local governments, organizations, universities and research centres to ensure that our research is rooted in the lived social and economic realities of the countries we engage in.
The SocialLife Research Institute, established in 2010, began as an initiative by faculty members and students from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Its initial goal was to research and preserve social memory through the kyucxahoi.com project. Over more than a decade of development, SocialLife has progressed through several significant phases. It became the Center for Research on Culture, Education, and Social Life in 2014, transformed into SocialLife Institute Company Limited in 2017, and received official recognition as an independent research institute in 2018 from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology. In 2023, SocialLife expanded into the SocialLife University Institute, adopting a non-profit model focused on research, publishing, advanced training, and community service.
Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Duc Loc President of SocialLife Research Institute | |
Nguyen Khanh Le Research Staff of SocialLife Research Institute | |
Vo Thi Thuy An Research Staff of SocialLife Research Institute | |
Le Quang Huy Research Staff of SocialLife Research Institute |
The Vietnam Medical Association was established in 1955 and has been operating in Vietnam for 70 years. It participates in or presides over scientific research topics, programs, and projects on medicine and health, cooperating equally and mutually beneficially with regional and international health organizations. Participates in training medical personnel, researching and widely disseminating advanced medical science knowledge and public health care. Performs the functions of consulting, criticizing, social appraisal and the development of legal documents.
(Mr.) Kinh, Nguyen Van (PhD, MD) VMA’s Permanent Vice Chairman and Professor of Infectious Diseases | |
(Ms.) Giang, Nguyen Thu (PhD, MD) Deputy Director of LIGHT Institute (Institute for Community Health & Development - LIGHT) | |
(Mr.) Hung, Nguyen Viet Master of Public Health, Lawyer |