Bolor Lkhaajav is an international relations researcher and writer The 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP17) was convened in Ulaanbaatar last month, bringing together 196 country representatives plus the European Union to negotiate action-based measures on several climate challenges facing the world today. Ulaanbaatar’s hosting of UNCCD COP17…
A talk with British photojournalist Claire Thomas
18 June 2026 15.00 BST Online
Claire Thomas is an award-winning photojournalist, fine art photographer, and writer Nine-year-old Dastan, the son of a Kazakh eagle hunter, rode his pony beside me, cantering effortlessly without a saddle. He laughed at my attempts to pat my pony’s neck – a gesture the animal was clearly unaccustomed to. For Dastan, horses are not objects…
Bolor Lkhaajav is an international relations researcher and writer The phaseout of coal-fired power has been progressing in many countries and for a country like Mongolia – a major coal exporter and consumer – this means only one thing, a transition to clean energy must be pursued. Mongolia’s plan to reduce its overdependence on coal, in…
Simon Phillips is an ethnobotanist with the Centre for Biocultural Diversity, University of Kent and Chris McCarthy is a Silk Road Scholar and Conservationist At a dry river bed in the Mongolian Gobi desert near the Chinese border, camels slowly drink water from holes dug by nomadic herders to the water table a little below…
Dr Joshua Wright is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. He is a landscape archaeologist with a research focus on East Asia. A national museum focused on Chinggis Khaan opened in Ulaanbaatar in 2022. In November of 2022, the National University of Mongolia hosted a conference to open their…
Dr Saranzaya Manalsuren is a Senior Lecturer at LSBU Business School, London South Bank University. Her research focuses on themes related to sustainable and equitable managerial practices, supporting the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda, emotional and cultural intelligence and leadership. Â Â The latest IMF report highlights a surge in global uncertainty attributed to a myriad…
A joint online roundtable event with the Institute of International Studies (IIS), Mongolian Academy of Science, hosted by the RSAA
8 May 2024 09.00-12.00 BST
Sue Byrne is an independent researcher specialising in Mongolia. Who would have thought that a twenty-six year old British Army Officer would be the first European to enter Urga in February 1912 mere weeks after the Bogd Khan’s declaration of independence? The young man was Charles Binsteed, who had taken Extra Regimental Leave beyond empire…
Bolor Lkhaajav is an international relations researcher and writer Over the last decade, Mongolia has experienced tremendous political, economic, and social transformation. The 2024 parliamentary election will be a turning point in Mongolia’s democracy, governance, and how Ulaanbaatar engages the world in an increasingly unstable geopolitical environment. The 2024 parliamentary election will be one of…
