Variya Plungwatana
Variya Plungwatana is a Communications Assistant at SEI Asia. She joined SEI in April 2021. She provides communications support for Centre, Centre Director and Cluster communications in line with the SEI Asia strategy. She also supports content dissemination of key SEI research and activities and supports outreach for the SUMERNET programme.
Variya is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University (French and English). Prior to joining SEI, Variya was Assistant Manager at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT). Her responsibilities included liaison with media along with undertaking a variety of communications, managerial and administrative tasks. Apart from multimedia and social media skills, she is capable of event-planning and public relations and has experience in editing the FCCT website and producing their weekly bulletin.
She has expertise in translation and has worked as a news translator previously. In 2018, she was a trainee at the Embassy of Belgium in Bangkok as a consular staff.
Variya is a music enthusiast and she enjoys keeping up with the political news and loves reading books and listening to podcasts.
Organisation
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Asia Centre
Position
Component 3 (Communications) Assistant
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Stories by Variya Plungwatana
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SUMERNET film to feature at Climate Change film festival in Bangkok
SUMERNET's climate short film, The Last Drop, will be screened at this year's CCCL Film Festival.
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Perspectives from the VOICES project on Covid-19 and water insecurity
This blog is written based on the online webinar “Lessons from COVID-19 for reducing water insecurities: Webinar on VOICES project”
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How does “knowledge co-creation” allow for inclusion of community voices in water management?
Reflections based on the online webinar “Co-creating Knowledge to Enhance Women’s Leadership " project.
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SUMERNET Mekong multimedia booklet 2022
SUMERNET published a multimedia booklet which is the product of media-research partnership fund 2022.
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Understanding local realities: How to reduce water insecurity at the local community level
SUMERNET researchers are collaborating with local communities by building trust and co-producing knowledge to seek solutions to reduce water insecurity.
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