Dr Thin Yu Naing

Name
:
Dr Thin Yu Naing
Email
:
yugan.2010@gmail.com, yunaing@uy.edu.mm
Academic Qualifications
:
-B.A (Hons;) (Archaeology), 2006
-M.A (Archaeology), 2008
-M.Res (Archaeology), 2010
-Ph.D (Archaeology), 2015
-Diploma (Tourism Studied and Management), 2015
-Diploma (GIS), 2021.
-Certificate of Intermediate Course on Strategic Tourism Development, Feb, 2014.
-Certificate of Cognitive Ethno science: Researching Indigenous Knowledge System, June to July 2015. (Prof. J Lim Compton, University of Wisconsin, Forest Ecology & Management.)
-Certificate of the 3-year Project on Strengthening Capacity of University Quality Assurance System towards Uplifting Higher Education Quality in GMS Countries, Oct, 2015. (AUN-QA)
-Certificate of the 3-year Project on Strengthening Capacity of University Quality Assurance System towards Uplifting Higher Education Quality in GMS Countries, Dec, 2016. (AUN-QA)
-Certificate of 5th Higher Education Leadership Program (HELP V): Nurturing Whole Students in Myanmar, June 2018.
-Certificate of The Lower Mekong Initiative English Support Project, July, 2019.

Awards
:
-The Best Research Paper Award (Architecture and Schematic
Composition of Monasteries in Bagan Period), The Ministry of Education (Lower Myanmar). (2018)
-The Best Research Paper Award (Iconometry: Physical Proportions of Seated Buddha Images in Early Bagan Period (11th Century), Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS), (2024).
International Project
:
participated in the National Geographic Society (NATGEO) as a project member in December, 2019.
Research Experience
Publication Papers
:
1. Political, Administrative, Religious, Economic and Socio Cultural significant of Late Bagan Period gleaned from the study of Kya Zwa Min’s Edict. Mandalay University Research Journal, Vol-4, 2013, September.
2. Architecture and Schematic Composition of monasteries in Bagan Period, Dagon University Research Journal, Vol-8, 2018, November.
3. Architecture and Formation System of Wooden Monasteries in Upper Myanmar, University of Yangon Research Journal, Vol-10, 2020.
4. Materials used for Carving the Buddha Images in Bagan Period, University of Yangon Research Journal, Vol-12, No-1, 2023.
5. Iconometry: Physical Proportions of Seated Buddha Images in Early Bagan Period (11th Century), Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS), 2024.
6. A detailed study of the main components involved in an edict of Bagan Period, University of Yangon Research Journal, Vol-13, No-1, 2024.

Present field of Research
:
-Physical proportions of the standing Buddha images in Bagan Period (85% finished – such as data collection, interview, field, and documents.)
-The encased Buddhist monuments and Buddha images of Bagan Period (85% finished – such as data collection, interview, field, and documents.)
Areas of further study
:
– From simple to complex: A study of the evolution of stratified social structure in Myanmar.
-Human skeletal remains from Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Late Iron Age sites in Myanmar: A synthesis.