Dr Charlie Rumsby is a research Fellow at the Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University with research interests in youth, children, belonging and citizenship. Geographically she focuses on mainland Southeast Asia, where she has conducted research with the Vietnamese diaspora in Cambodia since 2014. 

Charlie trained in anthropology at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and Goldsmiths College, and went on to conduct an interdisciplinary ethnography at Coventry University for her PhD thesis. Her doctoral research, underpinned by the use of participatory and visual research methods, explored modes of identity and belonging among Vietnamese children living as de facto stateless in Cambodia. Emphasising children's perspectives Charlie's research highlights the ways children negotiate the undesirable realities of life of the margins, in particular children's experience of morality, religious conversion, ethnicity and inter-generational mobilities.