Dr Tamas Wells
Research Coordinator, Myanmar Research Network
School of Social and Political Sciences
36 Scholarly works
11 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Journal article
Meanings and practices of accountability in the international development sector: The limits of “vernacularization” in rural Cambodia
DOI: 10.1111/dpr.700722025
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
Journal article
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
Calibrated engagement: chronicles of local politics in the heartland of Myanmar
DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2025.25910002025
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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
Journal article
Bad adopters or bad proponents of technology? Facebook and the violence against Muslims in Myanmar
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2023.2285808