Dr. Sambath My
Research Fellow, Collaborative Evaluation and Research Centre
Sambath is a Research Fellow in the Collaborative Evaluation and Research Centre (CERC) at Federation University Australia. Prior to joining CERC, he was an Evaluation Specialist at the Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS). He also had a decade of professional experience in capacity development, technical advice, advocacy for policy change, and project management in the areas of gender, women’s rights, and men’s masculinities, including intimate partner violence, in Cambodia.
Sambath completed his PhD in Development Studies, winning the SSPS Best PhD Thesis Award 2020 from the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His PhD fields of research covered gender relations, studies of men and masculinities, social policy, and socio-economic development. He also completed his master’s degree in Development Studies (Gender & Development), gaining First Class Honours at the University of Melbourne.
Some of his academic works in the areas of caring masculinities, and critical policy analysis from a feminist transformative ethics of care perspective have been published in NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and the Journal of Development Studies.
A continuum of caring masculinities: evidence from Khmer men’s childcare practices
The National Childcare Agenda in Cambodia: A Feminist Transformative Ethics of Care Perspective