Ms Chintana Sandilands
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Lecturer, Southeast Asia Centre |
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Ms Chintana Sandilands [BA, MA (Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand), Graduate Diploma in Public Policy, Public Policy Program, ANU]. She is a lecturer and tutor with the Southeast Asia Centre specialising in Thai language and culture, as well as other aspects of Thai studies, particularly contemporary political, economic and social issues. She teaches Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Thai language courses, and is also the Convenor of the Thai Program and the Year in Asia (Thailand and Lao PDR) Program in the Southeast Asia Centre, and Assistant Director of the National Thai Studies Centre (NTSC).
In 1997 she was awarded the Australian National University Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching (with team). Ms Sandilands’ current research activities include a project on ‘Language of Security: Thailand’, collaborative research funded by the Lowy Institute. She previously undertook collaborative research with Professor John Clark, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney, on The Economic Base of Thai Artists, funded by the Australian Research Council.
Ms Sandilands is deeply involved with public outreach activities. She frequently briefs officials prior to posting in Thailand, and other groups such as the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development and is an active member of the Australia-Thailand Association of Canberra, and was Vice-President of the Thai Community of the ACT Inc. In 2008, she was awarded the ‘2008 ACT International Women’s Day Award’ for ‘Services to Thai and Australian Communities’. During 2009 her name was put forward as being a suitable person for inclusion in the Australian version of "Who's Who". The nomination was accepted, approved for inclusion, and her name was subsequently published in Who's Who of Australian Women: Lessons We Learn. (2009 edition).