Ashraful Alam Institute of Australian Geographers & The New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2014

Ashraful Alam

I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Environment & Geography in Macquarie University, Sydney. My research is an exploration into the production of space/place in the third-world context from the more-than-human perspective. I received the International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (iMQRES) to pursue my doctoral study. I am also a member of the Political Ecology Group at the department. I completed Master of Science in Urban Planning from the University of Hong Kong in 2011 with the Asian Development (ADB) scholarship. My Masters thesis on the social production of urban space in Hong Kong received the best dissertation award in the Faculty of Architecture in the University of Hong Kong. My projects received Hong Kong Institute of Planners (HKIP) Prizes in 2011 and 2012. Other planning projects also received recognition in the European Union and Center for Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) in Tongji University, Shanghai, China. I was appointed as teaching staff in the Architecture Discipline of Khulna University, Bangladesh during 2003-2013.