Student Fellows

Pornphan Wajjwalku

Pornphan Wajjwalku, or Pin, is a master’s student from Thailand enrolled in the International Peace and Co-existence Program, Hiroshima University. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Department of Integrated Global Studies, where she conducted research on Japanese urbanites who migrated to rural islands in the Seto Inland Sea. Currently majoring in cultural anthropology, her present research focuses on Japanese lifestyle migrants in Thailand and explores the concept of happiness and well-being.

Noa Morishita

Riyaz Karki

Vrajesh Rawal

Former Student Fellows and Research Assistants

Yuna Namba

Yuna Namba is a master’s student at the International Peace and Co-existence Program of Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research topic focuses on the process of war propaganda and the psychological changes toward community identification during the Rwandan genocide. From April 2023, Yuna has been mainly responsible for the Japanese social media management and website updates of NERPS.

PJ Rohan George

Rohan is a master’s student at the IDEC Institute, Hiroshima University. He is a budding climate scientist, and his research aims to assess the costs and benefits of solutions to glacial lake outburst floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region. Rohan worked in the financial services sector with an international bank in Tokyo for over 15 years as an expert in the valuation of financial products and revenue recognition. He is a Chartered Accountant who began his professional career with one of the “Big Four” consulting firms in India, and has global experience in Europe, Asia and the United States with a multinational manufacturing and financial services conglomerate.  He has a bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting from the University of Bristol. At NERPS, he is assistant to the “Project to augment quality and quantity of NERPS activities, making good use of NERPS Fellows” and works for various NERPS projects/activities.

Rahmatika Dewi

Rahmatika Dewi is a doctoral student at the International Education Development Program of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. She holds a master’s degree in Educational Development from Hiroshima University. Her research interests include job sustainability especially in the digitalization and Industry 4.0 era, skills for the future of work, higher education institutions (HEIs) and industries nexus, and HEIs curriculum reforms. Her research is situated in Indonesia. Rahmatika assists in social media management and information dissemination of NERPS activities in English since April 2021.

Kai Kagitani

Kai Kagitani studied Anthropology at the International Peace and Co-existence Program of Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His supervisors were Prof. Koki Seki and Dr. Moe Nakazora. His research topic was the possibility of coexistence between skateboarders and non-skateboarders in street spaces. He conducted fieldwork at the park in Hiroshima city by focusing on skateboarders and non-skateboarders’ practices and how they are sharing the space through their commonality. He assisted in collecting SDGs-related activities at Hiroshima University from April 2021 to March 2022.

Alva Linnér

Alva Linnér was a master student in Development Studies at Lund University, Sweden, from where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies. Her previous research activities include exploring the effects of climate change on international security, as well as the socio-economic aspects of armed conflict and development. She is the co-author of a recent chapter in Swedish on the geopolitics of trade in a climate changed world. She has previously worked as a research assistant at Linköping University, Sweden. In her master thesis, she will continue to explore how climate change impacts affect the onset of armed conflicts. Alva provided research assistance to the NERPS project on Climate governance and geopolitics in the Pacific from September to December 2022.

Mika Sakai

Mika Sakai was a master’s student at the Department of Biosphere Science at Hiroshima University. Her major was Agricultural Economics, and her research was about good agricultural practices on tropical fruits in Thailand. She traveled to Thailand for a five-month fieldwork and visited the big productions areas of durian. She assisted in collecting and disseminating information about the SDGs-related activities of Hiroshima University from 2019 until March 2020.

Rebeca Tabosa

Rebeca Tabosa was an MSc. student of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Paraiba, and a masters degree in Urban Management and Development from the Institute for Housing and Urban Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She previously worked as an intern at UN Habitat Regional Office for Asian and the Pacific in Japan. She is currently interested in developing her master thesis about climate change adaptation and resilience in a Latin America context. Rebecca provided research assistance to the NERPS project on Sustainable Peace and Peaceful Sustainability in Conflict-Affected Societies from October 2020-March 2021.

Wu Xuan