Vision

The Research Center for Language, Culture, and Human Development in Lower ASEAN (RC-LCHD) was established as a result of cooperative effort to pursue high-quality research among academic members with expertise in various disciplines of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and partner universities. RC-LCHD also serves as a mechanism to drive graduate-level research and innovation in response to students’ learning needs and the ongoing demands for academic institutions to address societal challenges on a regional and global scale. The RC aspires to strengthen research in three major areas aligned with the vision of the Faculty.

Mission

  1. To develop the research in the fields of cultural management, cultural tourism, and human and social development including the development of creative languages and multicultural societies.
  2. To become the knowledge sharing center for new researchers and graduates by integrating knowledge with cultures, human and social development, and languages in the Lower ASEAN
  3. To promote the potentials of staff in conducting and publishing research as well as knowledge transfer to the communities
  4. To create a database for disseminating research publications in the fields of languages, culture and human development including the application of knowledge and lessons from the research on the Lower ASEAN to develop the communities in southern Thailand.
  5. To develop research that leads to the proposed policy for developing communities in accordance with problems, needs and identities of the communities.