Student Profile

Nattakant Akarapongpisak

Nattakant is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political and Social Change. She obtained BA (Journalism and Mass Communication) and MA (Public Administration and Public Policy) from Thammasat University in Thailand and the University of York in UK accordingly.
Her proposed dissertation topic is about land tenure and the implementation of land policies in Thailand (mainly from 1980s to the emergence of economic crisis in 2000) and the engagement of the state and the society, peasant movements in particular, in the formation and changes of land policies. Her research interest is about agrarian politics, policies on natural resources management in Thailand and Thailand's local politics. Part of this interest is reflected on her MA dissertation about the impact of the implementation of the Village Revolving Fund programme over rural communities in Thailand.
Email: nattakant.akarapongpisak@anu.edu.au@anu.edu.au