Dr Tamas Wells
Research Coordinator, Myanmar Research Network
School of Social and Political Sciences
35 Scholarly works
10 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2025
Journal article
Calibrated engagement: chronicles of local politics in the heartland of Myanmar
DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2025.25910002025
Research contracts (non-grants)
Myanmar Humanitarian Aid Research Initiative Phase II
2024
Research contracts (non-grants)
Myanmar Humanitarian Aid Research Initiative
2023
Research Contracts
International Engagement in Myanmar’s Humanitarian Crisis: Ensuring Effective and Locally Led Aid Responses
2022
Journal article
The Vernacularisation of Human Rights Discourse in Myanmar: Rejection, Hybridisation and Strategic Avoidance
DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2020.18654322019
Journal article
Narrative and elucidating the concept of democracy: the case of Myanmar’s activists and democratic leaders
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2018.15098502019
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Can advocacy change the views of politicians about aid? The potential and limits of a presence-based approach
DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2019.1578189
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2025
Journal article
Compliance and coloniality: aid bureaucracy and the failures of ‘localisation’ in Myanmar's complex emergency
DOI: 10.1111/disa.700022025
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Pursuing morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in southeastern Myanmar
DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2025.24680052025
Book
Narrating Democracy in Myanmar: The Struggle Between Activists, Democratic Leaders and Aid Workers
DOI: 10.5117/97894637261532025
Journal article
The Elite Paradigm Driving Australian Aid Policy: Learning to Live With the ‘Cautious Consensus’
DOI: 10.1002/app5.700092025
Journal article
Narratives of Localisation in Times of ‘Crisis’: Local Intermediary Actors and the International Aid Industry in Myanmar
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2024.24455312024
Journal article
Rights refused: grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar Rights refused: grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar , by Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Stanford University Press, 2023, 366 pp., US$32.00 (paperback)
DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2024.23867242024
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Bad adopters or bad proponents of technology? Facebook and the violence against Muslims in Myanmar
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2023.22858082024
Journal article
International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance?
DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2024.2320415