It was nice to see you, albeit very briefly, last week at STOU. It is good to know that the life of an LIS academic continues to be very busy, with the knowledge and skills in high demand J
It was helpful to begin to plan my visit to STOU in more detail with Praima: I hope to finalise some of the arrangements fairly son, once I receive her reply to my queries.
I appreciate your response regarding a possible visit to Laos: I do recall you mentioning, while you were in Brisbane, that you had good connections with both Laos and Myanmar, but I understand that the requirements for the grant funding are very restrictive. I do appreciate that they are being very generous by allowing me to make a professional visit to Chiang Mai as the guest of CMU. I won’t complicate matters any further.
I do hope that my visit to STOU in late August-early September will be worthwhile, and that I can provide some valuable support to the RGJ-PhD program in general and to Praima’s research in particular.
As noted, I look forward to finalising the arrangements soon.