Rate My Professor Pyone Myat Thu

Thu's research focuses on political ecology, migration and mobilities, land and livelihoods, particularly in post-conflict Timor-Leste, Thailand, and Myanmar. Her work examines livelihoods, forced and labour migration, mobility practices, and intersections with conflict, land, and gender relations, informed by critical development studies, political ecology, forced migration, and mobilities studies. Key publications include 'Access to land and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste' (2016), 'Gendered access to customary land in East Timor' (2007), 'Land forgotten: Effects of Indonesian re-settlement on rural livelihoods in East Timor' (2008), 'Household agricultural activities and child growth: evidence from rural Timor-Leste' (2017), 'Journeys to Knua: Displacement, Return and Translocality in Timor-Leste' (2020), 'Internal displacement in Timor-Leste' (2019), and recent contributions such as 'Towards a diversified agricultural forest-based economy: Community views of planting sandalwood in Timor-Leste' (2023) and 'The impacts of COVID-19 and coup on Myanmar migrant children's education in Thailand' (2024). She received the 2024 International Social Science Collaboration and Development Grant from the Asian Association of Social Science Research Councils. Thu co-convened International Migrants Day 2024 at Murdoch University and has conducted consultancies on natural resource management in Timor-Leste.