MEDIA

Tamas Wells is the author of a range of media reports, articles, podcasts and blogs, in forums including The Diplomat, The New Humanitarian, Ears to Asia, LSE Impact Blog, Devpolicy, Australian Outlook, Irrawaddy magazine, and other aid practice publications. He is also quoted regularly in Australian print and radio (including in The Age/Sydney Morning Herald and ABC) and international media (including CNN, Kehitys Finland and Frontier). Selected publications and podcasts:

Foreign aid

‘Aid under fire: The dilemmas facing humanitarian actors in strife-torn Myanmar’ (with Anne Decobert, Ears to Asia, University of Melbourne, Oct 2023
‘A new era for Australian aid: the “cautious consensus”’, Devpolicy blog, Australian National University, Nov 2021 (with Ben Day)
‘Aid localisation amidst revolution in Myanmar’ (with Anne Decobert) Devpolicy blog, Australian National University, Sept 2023
‘The rise and fall of innovation labs in the aid sector’, Devpolicy blog, Australian National University, Feb 2023
‘To help tackle aid inequality, support Myanmar’s local intermediaries’ (with Anne Decobert) The New Humanitarian, Aug 2023
‘Hard lessons for aid agencies at work in Myanmar’ (with Anne Decobert), Ears to Asia Podcast, University of Melbourne, 2019

Myanmar politics

‘Narrating democracy in Myanmar’, New Books Network podcast, March 2023.
‘Amid revolution, Myanmar’s NGOs face a deficit of donor solidarity’ (with Pyae Phyo Maung), New Mandala, June 2024
Conflict in Myanmar Paves the Way for a New Way of Democracy’ (with Soe Htet and Michael Breen), The Diplomat, June 2024
‘Democracy: a distant vision in Myanmar?’ The Newsletter, International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden, July 2022.
‘Student activism and Myanmar’s revolution’ (with Soe Htet) Australian Outlook. Aug 2023
‘Democratization from below in Myanmar’, Myanmar in a Podshell, episode 7, Feb 2022.
‘Students Continue to Campaign for Change in Myanmar’ Pursuit, University of Melbourne, Feb 2022 (with Anne Decobert and Michael Breen)
‘Reading Myanmar’s 2020 elections’, Election Watch, University of Melbourne, Oct 2020
‘Discourses, Development, Democracy: Myanmar’s 2020 elections’ Myanmar Musings Podcast, Australian National University, Sept 2020
‘Myanmar’s Tortuous Democratization’, Australian Outlook, 2018
‘Pariah to Partner: the West’s premature embrace of Myanmar’, Pursuit, University of Melbourne, 2017
‘Quality Talk? Community Consultation in Myanmar’, Irrawaddy, 2016