Mobility Shocks: Understanding Disruptions to Australian Migration (Lead Chief Investigator: Professor Alan Gamlen at Australian National University)
This Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project, in which I will contribute as a Research Fellow, aims to generate new knowledge about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human migration and mobility.
Status: Expected in 2026.
How Australia-based Migrants Help in Crises Abroad (Lead Chief Investigator: Professor Alan Gamlen at Australian National University)
This Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project, in which I am contributing as a Research Fellow, examines the extensive humanitarian activities and contributions of Australia-based migrants to crises abroad.
Status: Ongoing.
International Development Policy (Lead Chief Investigator: Professor Nicholas Biddle at Australian National University)
This DFAT-funded project, in which I am contributing as a team member, investigates public attitudes in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to support evidence-based Australian foreign policy and development engagement.
Status: Ongoing.
Measuring Regional Conflict Exposure
This project introduces the Geographical Proximity to Conflict Index (GPCI), a novel approach to quantify a country's regional conflict exposure, combining three core conflict dimensions – intensity (battle deaths), frequency (conflict dyads), and type (civil vs. international) – with three types of spatial proximity: centroid-to-centroid, capital-to-capital, and population-weighted distances.
Status: Ongoing.
PhD Project (Primary Supervisor: Distinguished Professor Ian McAllister at Australian National University)
This PhD project, funded by the Australian Government Research Training Program (ARGTP) Scholarship, examines the impacts of government changes, measured by leadership and government ideological turnover, on the implementation of civil war peace agreements in democratic countries.
Status: Completed in 2022.
The Rohingya Exodus 2017: Issues and Implications for Stability, Peace and Security in South Asia (Lead Chief Investigator: Professor Peter Sammonds, University College London)
This British Academy funded project, in which I contributed as a team member, aims to study the overall implications of this exodus for regional stability, security and peace. In so doing, the project also intends to understand the causes and drivers of identity-based politics associated with the Rohingya population in Myanmar.
Status: Completed in 2019.
Promoting Minority Rights in Multi-Ethnic Society (Lead Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Dr Md. Touhidul Islam at the University of Dhaka)
This UNDP-funded project, in which I contributed as a team member, examines conflict resolution and peacebuilding approaches to enhance capacity of ethno-religious grassroots elites in promoting minority rights in multi-ethnic society.
Status: Completed in 2018.
Assessment of Confidence Building Process in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Team Leader: Tony Vaux)
The project, in which I worked as a National Expert under a UNDP contract, aimed at evaluating and supporting peacebuilding and trust-building efforts of CHTDF (Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Facility) in the conflict-affected region of the CHT, Bangladesh.
Status: Completed in 2015.
Conflict Mapping in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Lead Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Dr Zahid ul Arefin Choudhury at the University of Dhaka)
This project, in which I contributed as a team member, offers a systematic, data-driven analysis of violence, polarization, and mistrust in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), drawing on surveys, elite interviews, and case studies of 14 major violent incidents (1997–2014).
Status: Completed in 2014.