Academic Collaboration
The Unit holds regular research seminars and has frequent visits from international scholars. MIASU has exchange agreements with:

Inner Mongolia University, PRC
Inner Mongolia Normal University, PRC
The School of Mongolian Studies at the National University of Mongolia
The Mongolian Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law
The East/Central Europe Research Group, University of Copenhagen
Mongolian State University of Agriculture
Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences
The Centre for Bhutanese Studies
Institute for Russian and Altaic Studies (IRA), Chungbuk National University (Korea).
Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim
Academy of Management, Ulaanbaatar

The unit also has close links with other institutions in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Russia, Tibet and the USA. The Unit provides a consultancy service and a translation service for academic, business and media projects. The Unit has its own working library and the Owen Lattimore research collection, now housed in the Library of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.

Graduate Studies
The unit supports research at the graduate and post-doctoral level.

Paula Haas
Baasanjav Terbish

Li Jiarui

Ross Anthony - Xinjiang

Frank Billé - writing up fieldwork in China/Mongolia
Bernard Charlier - writing up fieldwork carried out in Mongolia
Maria-Luisa Nodari - writing up fieldwork carried out in Tibet

Astrid Zimmerman - writing up Mongolian fieldwork
Adrian Zenz - writing up fieldork from Qinghai
Jacquie Hobbs - on fieldwork in Qinghai

Signe Gundersen - writing up fieldwork carried out in Mongolia
Giovanni Da Col - writing up fieldwork carried out in Tibet
Alan Wheeler - writing up work on notions of mobility and space on the Mongolian border with Tuva

Recent PhDs
Mette High – Mining for a future? Mobility, temporality and changing subsistence strategies in post-socialist Mongolia
Ludek Broz – The Spirit of Explanation: Invisible Causes of Visible Disasters in the Altai Republic.
Madeleine Reeves - Border Work: An Ethnography of the State at its Limits in the Ferghana Valley
Jonathan Mair - Faith, Knowledge and Ignorance in Contemporary Inner Mongolian Buddhism
Timm Lau - The Tibetan diaspora in India; approaching itinerant trade, popular cultural consumption and diasporic sociality
David Gullette - Kinship, State, and 'Tribalism': The Genealogical Construction of the Kyrgyz Republic
Youngho Nam - Labour relations and concepts of work in Irkutsk
Bum-Ochir Dulam - Respect and Power without Resistance: Investigationof Interpersonal Relationships among the Deed Mongols
Beth Mellor - Social identity in southern Tibet
Vera Skvirskaya - The Yamal Nenets: society and sociality in the post-Socialist context
Youngho Nam - Labour relations and concepts of work in Irkutsk (Siberia)
Tara Sinclair -Contemporary Buddhism in Russia
Lars Hojer - aided by our exchange agreement with the Mongolian Studies Unit of the Mongolian National University, Ulaanbaatar. His research topic is: Dealing with suffering and conflict in North-West Mongolia
Dawn Nafus - Consumption, communication technology and markets in post-Socialist Russia, and she has been based in St. Petersburg

The five-year exchange programme generously supported by the Sigrid Rausing Trust has come to an end. This was a very successful initiative, one recipient wrote:

'I can't tell you how much the grant and your support has meant to me. I feel re-energized as a scholar and researcher and a much wholer teacher as I work with university faculty and students.'

The Unit has currently has some funds for exchange visitors, applications should be submitted by either of the deadlines: 28th February or 31st August. Please contact Libby Peachey for details.

The Unit has twelve Affiliated Researchers:
Dr David Gullette (MIASU)
Dr Yangdon Dhondhup (SOAS)
Dr A. Hürelbaatar (Senior Research Affiliate, MIASU)
Dr Marsha Levine (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge)
Dr Morten Pedersen (Copenhagen University)
Dr Carole Pegg (Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, University of Cambridge)
Ms Jane Salvage (International health consultant)
Dr Tara Sinclair (MIASU)
Dr Katherine Swancutt (University of Oxford)
Mr Mike Towers (MIASU)
Dr Caroline Upton (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
Dr Balzhan Zhimbiev (MIASU)

Publications
The Unit published the first volume of Inner Asia (Link) Occasional Papers in 1995 and further volumes in 1996 & 7. We are grateful to an anonymous donor for a generous grant to cover the cost of publication. In 1999 a subscription journal Inner Asia was first published for the MIASU by White Horse Press. Inner Asia is published twice a year alongside our 'Inner Asia Book Series' and from 2005 publication transferred to Global Oriental Ltd. who specialize in publications on Japan and Asia.

The Translation Service
Mrs Bayarmandakh Gaunt provides services as translator and interpreter between the Mongolian and English languages. Clients have included Amnesty International, Home Office Immigration and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Metropolitan Police and the BBC.

Reading materials.