Concept: To give voice to local and community-based issues and problems across the Asian continent and beyond through research and interview type projects and reportage.

The main aim of this project is to build an online platform for facilitating research, writing and discussion forums linking universities and communities in Japan with their counterparts in other Asian countries and beyond. The Young Global Researchers Project is an authentic community engagement initiative to encourage students and educators to collaborate in learning more about key societal issues, and the actions needed to address them, through interactions with individuals and organizations in their local areas. This is to be achieved through solid field research, primary source engagement, and voicing their individual experiences, and those of others, through the written word and other forms of media. In addition, further investigation by the lead researchers will focus on identifying the different styles of research employed in the various cultural settings the project is active in, with analysis of the data collected hopefully leading to insights on how to prepare a more effective and universal approach to research for under-graduate level university students, in particular.

Kevin Ramsden & Aaron Campbell
Department of Global Studies
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Find out more about Phase One of our project called Changemakers in the Community.

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Find out more about Phase Two of our project called Changemakers in the Community – Phase 2.

Also, check out the profiles of our Young Researchers.

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