Dr Khin Mar Mar Kyi received support from Prospect Burma throughout her masters degree study, and PhD study.

Today Dr Khin Mar Mar Kyi is an-award winning social anthropologist and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is also the first Senior Burmese female academic at the University of Oxford and is the inaugural Aung San Suu Kyi Gender Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is currently working as co-investigator on an ESRC-funded project on ‘Religion, Nationalism, and Gender-based Violence in Transitioning Myanmar’ at the Department of Politics and International Relations. She has previously taught as a lecturer at the Australian National University. 

Dr Khin Mar Mar Kyi’s work focusses on exploring transformative outcome for social intervention approach on issues of gender equality, child protection, education reforms, ethnicity, structural violence, sustainable development and peace. She has been working on gender in ethnic areas including Rakhine state for many years. 

She told us: “Prospect Burma scholarship is the only scholarship has longest contribution in supporting Burmese students. Without this scholarship, many of us will never achieve our goals in rebuilding Burma. Now I have had the opportunity to study anthropology on Burma and which is crucial discipline and yet rarely studied by Burmese. This scholarship has allowed me to not only maintain focus on my studies and research, but to also help me continue to work for my community and country, with my passion of humanitarian activities. All of which make be able to take part in rebuilding Burma for its peaceful and democratic future. Thank you.”