Culture and Development Research Centre


Open social research for human development



The Culture and Development Research Centre is a non-governmental research institute based in Mongolia. Our aim is to support and provide open, ethnographically grounded evidence and analysis in support of resilience-focused development.



Applied research

Our areas of expertise include:

  • Local knowledge (including TEK and Indigenous knowledge)

  • The relationship between culture and well-being

  • Development and social change

Ethical collaboration

As professional social scientists, we are bound to high standards of ethical responsibility set out by the professional bodies to which we belong.

Our institutional ethics statement outlines our commitment to open and collaborative ethnographic research that takes the interests of participants as our first priority.