Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee participated in the Belt and Road Initiative and Student-Mobilities in China-Southeast Asia (BRISM) Workshop Meeting held on 22-23 August 2024 at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Dr Koh is the Country Researcher for Malaysia in this two-year project funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2. The project aims to document the ways China is shaping tertiary education spaces and new circuits of mobility among youths in Southeast Asia. The study employs a cross-disciplinary conceptual and methodological approach to study regional student mobility flows that are also augmented by academic linkages between China and Southeast Asia. 

Dr Koh joins the project team members who are based in Australia, China, Macao, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the United Kingdom.