Congratulations to Our 2026 Summer School Participants
The Highland Institute is proud to congratulate all participants who successfully completed the 2026 SAS Summer School — an intensive training programme for final-year master's students and recent graduates preparing for advanced academic and research pathways.
The Summer School serves as the initial phase of the Highland Institute's 12-month Postgraduate Certificate in Research (PGCertR).
Programme completed: 15 June – 31 August 2026
What happens to everyday life, family relationships and community memories when war and militarisation become part of the landscape?
These questions lie at the heart of Histories of Asia's Gendered Armed Frontiers, 1780–2021 (HAGAF), a five-year international research initiative (2025–2030) led by Professor Mandy Sadan at the University of Warwick, with The Highland Institute among its partners.
Funded by the European Research Council through the EU's Horizon Europe programme, HAGAF explores communities in Bangladesh, India and Myanmar through historical and ethnographic research.
A five-year ERC-funded international research initiative
War Residues
Objects, Memory, and the Legacy of WWII along the Naga–Myanmar Border
War Residues explores how memories of the Second World War continue to circulate through everyday objects and oral histories in the highland borderlands of Nagaland and Myanmar. The project focuses on wartime objects—aircraft debris, weapons, and tools—repurposed by local communities, documenting endangered oral histories from war witnesses.
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Ekologos: A Global Environmental Project
Has the Amazon rainforest's destruction reached a tipping point?
Prof. Luiz Marques, member of the Ekologos project funded by the Highland Institute and the Norwegian Directorate of Higher Education, investigates tipping points that could trigger cascading climate effects, such as shifting rainfall patterns, intensifying wildfires, and accelerating continental forest loss in the Amazon rainforest.
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MyCClimate
Community Responses to Climate Change in Highland Asia
Funded by the Danish Institute of International Studies, the MyCClimate project at the Highland Institute explores community-driven strategies addressing climate impacts on local livelihoods and ecosystems in Highland Asia, emphasizing resilience, adaptation, and indigenous environmental knowledge.
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Tasting Tomorrow
Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Through Food
Highland Institute researchers Tümüzo Katiry, Akumtong Imchen, and Saktum Wonti investigated how cultural heritage can adapt to climate change through food and cuisine, preparing popular Naga dishes with ingredients likely available after 50 years of climate change.
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PluriMed
Entangled Medical Futures: Health in Climate-Altered Highland Asia
Dr. Michael T. Heneise leads an international workshop at the University of Edinburgh exploring how indigenous and plural medical systems respond to climate-driven health challenges, highlighting sustainable care practices and innovative community health strategies.
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