Tagged with Dr Yenny Tjoe

Living in a remote area has many disadvantages, especially in dryland regions where poor access to water means households are not growing food at home, drinking insufficient water, and paying less attention to personal and public hygiene. During her Griffith University PhD research fieldwork in rural West Timor, Dr Yenny Tjoe experienced this challenge first-hand […]

The Griffith Asia Institute recently hosted a successful workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on the theme of Contemporary Research Challenges in Southeast Asia. The workshop was for early career researchers and PhD students working on the region to build collaborative linkages and research capacity in both Australia and Cambodia within their discipline. Participants included Griffith […]

Ms Yenny Tjoe is a PhD candidate in Griffith University’s Department of International Business and Asian Studies. Her research topic is “Sustaining livelihoods in dryland”, and through this research she hopes to find ways to support the dryland community in West Timor cope with the impacts of global warming. During her data collection (June-November 2013), […]