On 2 October 2025, Dr Kim Chi Tran successfully defend her PhD thesis, On being education nomads: Mongolian herders’ children straddling ways of knowing and relating. Her research investigates how the convergence of pastoralism, schooling and digital ICT development shapes the education and future aspirations of Mongolian herders’ children.
Dr Tran argues that Mongolian herders' children become educational nomads by straddling their rural herder existence with their urban educational practice. They are thus able to combine urban professional aspirations whilst navigating Mongolia's rural-urban context.
She developed a youth-centred methodology for her research to investigate how rural Mongolian youths' mobilities, learnings and digital practices inform their future life trajectories and aspirations.
Rewatch Kim Chi's defence introduction
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