Visiting Appointments
SEAC visiting appointments are normally up to 3 months (minimum duration 6 weeks), and the Centre does not normally host appointments outside of LSE Term Dates. The LSE holds provisions for multiple Visiting Appointment categories which are:
- Visiting Fellows
(for pre-tenure / pre-major review scholars) - Visiting Senior Fellows
(for post-tenure / post-major review scholars below professorial level) - Visiting Professor / Visiting Professor in Practice (* not eligible for funded scheme)
(for persons of appropriate distinction in their fields or professions)
SEAC may also consider applications for externally-funded visiting postdoctoral appointments. Please send preliminary enquiries to the Centre Manager (seac.admin@lse.ac.uk)
To be part of SEAC’s academic network is truly inspiring and helps to expand my thoughts and academic exchanges as well.
All approved Visiting Fellows at LSE SEAC under this scheme are entitled to the following:
- Access to all LSE facilities and public events
- LSE IT Account with access to all electronic resources and databases provided by the LSE
- LSE Library card with borrowing rights
- Auditing of LSE lectures and seminars, subject to approval of the Teacher Responsible
- Shared desk space in LSE SEAC office subject to availability
Standard Visiting Appointments are non-contractual and unremunerated. Successful applicants are expected to have arranged their own source of funding and accommodation prior to applying. Bench fees of £100 per week may be charged for Standard Visitors (dependent on their funding). Applications are currently open and accepted on a rolling basis.
As part of their visiting appointment, Visiting Researchers are expected to play an active part in contributing to the intellectual life of the Centre. In particular, they are expected to present a seminar paper or public lecture, produce written outputs, including a working paper and where appropriate a blog or op-ed, and to interact with the SEAC and wider LSE community. Please note that the LSE may charge a 'bench fee' for the duration of the appointment.
Appointees are responsible for their own visa arrangements (you will need to secure the ‘Academic Visitor’ visafor such an appointment) while SEAC will be able to provide supporting documentation upon request.
Applicants should submit an application formand CV (3-pages max, to include educational and professional background and a list of publications) to the Centre Manager (seac.admin@lse.ac.uk) by the stated deadline. You will also need to ensure that your two referees send their reference letters to seac.admin@lse.ac.uk by the same deadline.
Selection criteria will include:
- Strength of the application
- Experience or potential of the candidate
- Contribution to LSE SEAC
- Availability of space and resources
Additional Funding Opportunities
SEAC has partnered with Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network 2.0: Communities of Learning, Research and Teaching Collaborative (SEANNET Collective) to provide funding for up to one Visiting Fellow a year from 2023-2026 to strengthen a community of scholarship on cities in Southeast Asia. SEANNET will provide financial support for Visiting Fellows including airfare to London, monthly stipend, and other additional costs. Fellows will also be expected to participate in SEANNET Collective activities alongside their commitments as a SEAC Visiting Fellow. Full details can be found here.
Interested candidates should contact SEAC and SEANNET for further information and application guidance. Applications will need to be approved by both SEAC and SEANNET to be successful.
The SEAC Stipendiary Visiting Appointment scheme is non-contractual. Applicants are expected to remain employed during the visiting period, to comply with the UK's Academic Visitor visa requirements. and to remain as SEAC’s extended network. Funding is to contribute towards living expenses and return economy airfare. Appointees are responsible for their own accommodation arrangements.
As part of their visiting appointment, Visiting Researchers are expected to play an active part in contributing to the intellectual life of the Centre. In particular, they are expected to present a seminar paper or public lecture, produce written outputs, including a working paper and where appropriate a blog or op-ed, and to interact with the SEAC and wider LSE community.
Dr Benjamin Lawrence (Visiting Fellow) is a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS). Dr Lawrence WAs at SEAC as Visiting Fellow from 1 May to 31 July 2023. Dr Lawrence's research at SEAC focuseD on the Micropolitics of Constitutionalism in Cambodia.
Dr Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz (Visiting Fellow) is Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Supervisor in World History, and the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Dr CuUnjieng Aboitiz joined SEAC from 1 February to 31 July 2023. Dr CuUnjieng Aboitiz's research at SEAC focused on Co-constitution of Filipino Elite Class and Relationships with Nature, 1870-1986.
Dr Ofita Purwani (Visiting Fellow) is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia. Dr Purwani was at the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 1 April to 30 June 2023. Dr Purwani's research at SEAC focused on urban development in Yogyakarta after decentralisation.
Dr Kanokrat Lertchoosakul (Visiting Fellow) is assistant professor at the department of government, faculty of political science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Dr Lertchoosakul joins SEAC from 1 February to 30 April 2023. Dr Lertchoosakul's research at SEAC focuses on
Dr Andy Scott Chang (Visiting Senior Fellow) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University. Dr Chang joined SEAC from 30 January to 24 April 2023. Dr Chang's research at SEAC focused on The Making of "Foreign-Exchange Heroes": Gender, Occupation, and the Social Organization of Labour Migration in Indonesia.
Dr Helena Varkkey (Visiting Fellow) is Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at the Department of International and Strategic Studies, Universiti Malaya. Dr Varkkey joined SEAC from 30 January to 12 March 2023. Dr Varkkey's research at SEAC focused on .
Professor Tamaki Endo (Visiting Professor) is Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University. Prof Endo was at the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 1st October 2022 to 31st January 2023. Prof Endo’s research at SEAC focused on urban inequality in Thailand.
Prof Julio Tehankee (Visiting Senior Fellow) is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at De La Salle University. Prof Teehankee joins SEAC as Visiting Senior Fellow from 19 September - 19 December 2022. During his fellowship Prof Teehankee's research will focus on Authoritarian Nostalgiaand the Marcos Restoration in the Philippines.
Dr Sulfikar Amir (Visiting Senior Fellow) is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) in the Sociology Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University. He joined the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 19 September - 19 December 2022. During his fellowship Dr Amir's research focused on Scrutinizing Nusantara: The Fallacies of Indonesia’s New Capital, and How Political Leadership Shapes Covid-19 Mitigation in Southeast Asia.
Dr Gerard McCarthy (Visiting Fellow) is Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Dr McCarthy joined SEAC as Visiting Fellow from 5 September - 2 September 2022. During his fellowship his research focused on Politics of gig-economy in Southeast Asia; and hybrid political order in Asia.
Dr Lin Hongxuan (Visiting Fellow) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He joined the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 31st January 2022 for a year. During his fellowship his research focused on the historical production and circulation of progressive Islamic ideas across the Malay Archipelago.
Dr Joseph Scalice (Visiting Fellow) was a Postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University. Dr Scalice was at the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 15 November 2021 - 30 April 2022. Dr Scalice's research at SEAC focused on how the Sino-Soviet split impacted critical political developments in the Southeast Asian region.
Dr Junjia Ye (Visiting Fellow) is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Nanyang Technological University. Dr Ye was at the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 4 October 2021 - 3 January 2022. Dr Ye's research at SEAC focused on surveillance and borderings in migrant enclaves in Singapore.
Dr Jayde Roberts (Visiting Fellow) is Senior Lecturer in the School of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney. Dr Roberts was at the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 27 September - 31 December 2021. Dr Roberts's research at SEAC focused on public space in the two largest cities of Myanmar: Yangon and Mandalay.
Dr Emma Colven (Visiting Fellow) is Assistant Professor of Global Environment at the University of Oklahoma. Dr Colven was at the Centre as Visiting Fellow from 27 September - 17 December 2021. Dr Colven's research at SEAC focused on flooding, water crises and the real estate industry in Jakarta.
Dr Shanthi Thambiah (Visiting Senior Fellow) is Associate Professor in the Gender Studies Program, at the University of Malaya. Dr Thambiah was at the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 15 July - 15 October 2021. Dr Thambiah's research at SEAC focused on the emotional interconnectedness and governance of Indonesian and Malaysian Migrant Domestic Workers.
Dr Joanne Lim (Visiting Senior Fellow) is Associate Professor in Communications, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia. She is also Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Dr Lim was at the Centre as Visiting Senior Fellow from 4th May 2021 to 2nd July 2021. Dr Lim’s research at SEAC focused on digital interventions in Southeast Asia cities.
Merlyna Lim (Visiting Senior Fellow) is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society at Carleton University Canada. An ALiGN Media Lab founder/director, Dr Lim’s research interests revolve around the mutual shaping of technology and society, and political culture of technology, especially digital media and information technology, in relation to issues of justice, democracy and civic/participatory engagement.
Do Young Oh (Visiting Fellow) is a Researcher at LSE Cities. He recently completed his PhD in Regional and Urban Planning at the Department of Geography and Environment at the LSE with his thesis focusing on a comparative analysis of East Asian urbanisation processes. His research at LSE research involves an investigation into the university-city relationship in Singapore and Vietnam in a (post-)colonial context.
Daniel Peterson (Visiting Research Student) is currently completing his PhD at the Institute for Religion, Politics and Society at Australian Catholic University. Daniel’s thesis investigates whether or not Indonesia's broader human rights legal framework can withstand the challenges presented by the rise of political Islam in the archipelago. Daniel also works as a research assistant at the Institute, where he is a principal contributor to both Euro-Islam and SHARIAsource.
Lukas Schlogl (Visiting Fellow) is a Research Associate with the ESRC Global Poverty & Inequality Dynamics Research Network at the Department of International Development, King’s College London. His current work focuses on structural change, digital transformation, and political behavior in Indonesia. At SEAC, Lukas reviewed the extant literature about potential economic impacts of labour-displacing technological change on Southeast Asian economies.
Joel Selway (Visiting Senior Fellow) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. His research interests focus on ethnically-divided societies, and especially on how to design democratic institutions to prevent conflict. During his time with SEAC, Dr Selway examined the question of whether Thailand’s nation-building project will endure beyond the death of its beloved monarch, the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Tim Andrews (Visiting Senior Fellow) is an Associate Professor at Webster University (Thailand) and a previous academic at Thammasat University based in Bangkok. His research at LSE SEAC focused on an investigation into the working lives of base-of-organizational-pyramid employees in emerging Southeast Asia.
Chris Chaplin (Visiting Fellow) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). His research at LSE SEAC examined the relationships between conservative Islamic activism and modern understandings of citizenship and class in post-Suharto Indonesia.
Trude Jacobsen (Visiting Senior Fellow) is an Associate Professor of Southeast Asian history at Northern Illinois University, where she has served as Assistant Director in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Her research at LSE SEAC was on cultural history of madness, psychiatry, and mental health in mainland Southeast Asia from c. 1800 to 1950.
Stephen James (Visiting Research Student) has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies. His research at LSE SEAC involved carrying out a multi-sited, longitudinal study of Vietnamese migration, focusing on forced migration through the Vietnam-Hong Kong-London trajectory.
Joern Dosch (Visiting Professor) is Professor of International Politics and Development Cooperation at the University of Rostock, Germany. His research at LSE SEAC involved a comparative study of foreign policies of the Southeast Asian States as well as Europe-Asia relations.
Ken Teoh (Visiting Research Student) worked as Research Assistant both at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Economics and at the Wharton School’s Management Department. His key interests are in econometrics, statistical modelling, and consumer and macroeconomic data analysis.
Lucy Zhu (Visiting Research Student) was working as a research assistant for Professor Danny Quah through the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute of Global Affairs, of which she was a 2015 Fellow. She studied the dynamic Eastern-Western economic relationship from an international relations perspective.