Deboleena is a doctoral scholar at the OKDISCD, presently nearing completion of her PhD. With a background in political science (bachelor’s, master’s, and M.Phil.), her research focuses on the socio-political and economic dynamics of the India-Bangladesh borderlands. She has presented her work at conferences in India, Thailand, and Kyrgyzstan and contributed research articles and book […]
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Mamun is pursuing his MS in Oceanography at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. He is keen to work in marine ecology, especially plankton dynamics. Additionally, he is eager to gain knowledge in statistical techniques, data analysis, and solving complex problems using marine ecological data alongside various oceanographic parameters. He is also interested in
Dr. Yvonne Su is the Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Her research is on forced migration, climate change-induced displacement, and queer migration. She has worked extensively with vulnerable communities in Southeast Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, including refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, indigenous peoples, and LGBTQ+ communities. Her work has been
Tahura Farbin is a lecturer-cum-research associate at the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) with a transdisciplinary background bridging law, environmental studies, and sustainability science. Her work focuses on sustainability, climate justice, climate-induced loss and damage, migration, and political ecology. She has contributed to the DICE project at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
Nusrat Jahan Esa is a teaching assistant at the Center for Sustainable Development (CSD). Her research interests include gendered subaltern, trauma theory, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. She also serves as an editor of MUSE (Mouthpiece of ULAB Students of English). Nusrat brings an interdisciplinary lens to understanding how literature and society intersect, and she is particularly
Dr. Prateep’s academic background is in political science, environmental studies, and international development. He does transdisciplinary work with an active interest in combining social and ecological perspectives. Prateep’s research focuses on the understanding of complex human-environment connections (or disconnections) with particular attention to change, its drivers, their influence, and possible ways to deal with them.
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Nadim is a fourth-year oceanography student who specializes in studying physical oceanography, particularly how the ocean interacts with the atmosphere and influences the weather and climate. He is proficient in GIS, developing machine-learning and numerical models of the ocean and climate, and also in remote sensing. Nadim strongly supports the FOSS (free and open-source) community
Michaela conducts collaborative interdisciplinary research with communities, community-serving agencies, and activist groups, developing and evaluating social, institutional, and policy interventions addressing structural and social exclusion for communities experiencing social conflict and/or forced displacement. Recent projects have focused on maternal mental health in Rwanda; access to health care for refugees and asylum seekers in Canada and