Uchralt Otede is currently working on environmental issues and herders’ self-help movement in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. Most recent publication includes: ‘Environmental protest movement in Inner Mongolia’ in Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China, edited by Teressa Wright, 2019; and ‘Informal grassland protection networks in Inner Mongolia’ in The Living Politics of Self-help Movement in East Asia, edited by T. Cliff, T. Morris-suzuki and S. Wei, 2018. He joined the ARC Laureate Project of ‘Informal Life Politics in Northeast Asia (https://survivalpolitics.org/) ’ as a PhD researcher at ANU since 2015 and appointed as a research fellow at the ANU Mongolia institute in 2020.

• China:nation-building and ethnic, religious conflicts, environmental movement in Inner Mongolia  
• Mongolia:grassroots selfhelp movements, DIY governance in rural communities 
• Cross-Border People Movements:Mongol tribes and clans(China, Mongolia, Russia), academic community partership networks(Mongolia, China, Japan, and Australia)

Informal Life Politics in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia(PhD project - part of ARC Laureate project "Informal Life Politics in the Remaking of Northeast Asia"; Supervisor and Chair:Prof.Tessa Morris-Suzuki)

Xanadu(Yuan-Shangdu) Studies:From a Perspective of Cultural and Envieonmental Tourisms 

Chinese Religion Going Abroad