KC (Kim Chi) Tran

Biography

I’m interested in researching how young people’s socio-ecological relations intersect with ecological changes, technological developments, education, and rural futures. My doctoral research explored how learning practices from herding and formal schooling shape the ways children of Mongolian herders (youth in secondary education) relate to their social and natural landscapes, and how navigating between these knowledge systems influences their aspirations. I have a strong interest in methodology and have developed a relational, youth-centred research approach that combines ethnography with multimodal participatory methods, interviews, and qualitative surveys. At present, my research interests lie at the interdisciplinary intersection of rural studies, geographies of children and youth, knowledge re/production, and biodiversity conservation.