Biographical Note

Dr. Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan has been involved in academia andresearch in the areas of disaster, gender, environment, climate change,globalization, women empowerment, development of agency, consumption, socialexclusion, indigenous community and other areas of social development andsocial sciences since late nineties. In2022, he joined as Associate Professorat IDMVS. Prior to this, he joined as lecturer in the Department ofSociology in 2008 and got promoted as Assistant Professor, Associate Professorand Professor with and for excellence in academia and research in 2010, 20016and 2020 consecutively in the same department. Dr.Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan has over 20 years of experience in conductingresearch and consultancy work with national and international non-government organizationin the areas of disaster, gender, environment, climate change, womenempowerment, development of agency, minority, marginal group, indigenouscommunity etc. After obtaining BSS and MSS in Sociology from the University ofDhaka Dr. Khan has achieved his 2^nd Masters (Master of Science) Degree from London School of Economics and Political science(LSE), London, UK.  Dr Khan’s PhD from the University Canterbury, New Zealand on ‘Disaster andWomen: The Wave of Change in the Position and Status of Women in the CoastalBangladesh’ is one of the pioneering Ph.D research in the contextof disaster prone coastal Bangladesh. In the Ph.D dissertation Dr Khandisplayed his expertise of using multiple research tools and techniques via methodological triangulation tobuild nexus between and among various socio-cultural factors which has beenhighly appreciated by the reviewers and examiners. This unique piece of work further developedand enriched his research, academic and professional experience and knowledgewhich has been published on November, 2022 as book titled ‘Disaster and Gender in Coastal Bangladesh:Transformation of Women’s Roles in Reducing Disaster Risk and Vulnerability’from SpringerNature: Singapore. In this book Dr. Khan focuses discourse of disaster and women in the existingsocio-cultural settings and state of disaster related affairs in coastalBangladesh. Focusing on women’s experiences ofcoastal Bangladesh during disaster-related time periods being confined withgender-related identity for institutional local practices, unequal distribution, and lack ofaccess/entitlements to resources, role of GOs and NGOs etc. thisbook unearthed various issuesranging from disproportionate vulnerability, coping and adaptation mechanismsfor women, limitations for promoting participation and involvement of women inthe decision making process both in family and society. Also a very recent (2023) book ofDr. Khan titled ‘Coastal Disaster Risk Management in Bangladesh: Vulnerability andResilience’ published from Routledge: London addressesdisaster and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices, constraints and capacityin the context of coastal Bangladesh. The in-depth study via methodologicaltriangulation not only in these two books rather in different research project,evaluation of the projects, assessment of the project and consultancy withgovernment and non-government organization for last more than 20 years made MrKhan very efficient and flawless in social research.

 Research Interest: Vulnerabilities to disaster are not equally distributed all overthe world because of variations in economy, culture, development processes,settlement processes, politics, resource management etc. which is certainlyputting an increasing group of people at higher risk than others. Experience ofenvironmental hazards and risks of catastrophic disaster are shaped by elementsof social structures including class, religion, age, physical ability andgender. Different social groups and different individuals carrydisproportionate ‘vulnerability bundles’. For example, women are the most atrisk when hazardous conditions unfold in disastrous events such as cyclones.And gender in this regard is a pervasive division taking access to social andeconomic resources away from women.

How do disaster, women and vulnerability function in disastrous times in the coastal area in Bangladesh?What are the local practices that are causing disproportionate vulnerability for women?These are two of manyresearch questions that disaster researcher Dr. Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan,Associate Professor has focused on in his research work ‘disaster and gender’in the rural area in Bangladesh. Disaster has obvious and devastating effectson the people whose everyday lives they touch. But what is the nature of impactand how does it differ for men and women? These questions led Dr Khan toexplore in-depth on some other question such as:
Is only gender matter or something else make the women disproportionately vulnerable?How do unequal access and entitlements to resources impact women in vulnerable situations?How does involvement and participation of women/women reduce vulnerability, develop agency and empower women?How are GO and NGOs interventions contributing in reducing vulnerability and mainstreaming women with decision making process?Are there any changes in local practices, cultural context, lifestyle, livelihood options, participation with decision making process for women in facing disaster?Taking teaching andresearch as career with an expertise on ‘disaster, gender and environment’ Dr.Khan’s one and only mission and vision is to ‘empower and develop agency ofwomen’ in DRR institutionally through sustainable development in the mostdisaster prone coastal area and for most vulnerable people which willultimately assist the government to achieve SDG.

 

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Book Chapters

·        Khan, MM; Kamal, Abu-Hena M; Mazumder, N. (2023). Roleof community clinic in reducing climate change and disaster-induced healthrisks: an explorative study in coastal Bangladesh. In M. Nasreen, K. M. Hossain & M.M. Khan (Eds.), Coastal Disaster RiskManagement in Bangladesh: Vulnerability and Resilience. London: Routledge.

·        Khan, M M;Kamal, Azad, Abul Kalam, Abu-Hena M; Zahid Dilara, Malak, M. A. (2023). Why women’s leadership is a keystone inenhancing disaster resilience to natural perturbations? Key insights fromcoastal communities of Bangladesh. In M. Nasreen, K. M. Hossain & M.M. Khan (Eds.), Coastal Disaster RiskManagement in Bangladesh: Vulnerability and Resilience. London: Routledge.

·        Madhanagopal, D.’ Khan, M. M. and Zaman, F. (2023). Does local politics have relevance to thelocal climate action programs in India and Bangladesh? Review and Discussion.  In D.Madhanagopal and S. Motaz  (Eds.) ClimateChange and Risk in South and Southeast Asia
Sociopolitical Perspectives. London: Routledge. Link: https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Change-and-Risk-in-South-and-Southeast-Asia-Sociopolitical-Perspectives/Madhanagopal-Momtaz/p/book/9781032106700

·        Khan, M.M., (2022). Dynamics of getting womenheard and changes in their roles and practices: An analysis of coastal women inBangladesh. In Salim, M (Ed) Society andState in South Asia. Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, India &University Press Ltd (UPL), Bangladesh.

Articles

·        ·        Abu-HenaMostofa Kamal, Tonmoy Sarkar, Khan, M. M. : Factors AffectingWillingness to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine among Adults: A Cross-sectional Studyin Bangladesh, Journal of Health Management , vol.25 , no.3 SAGEPublication , pp.414-423 , 2023 .

·        Khan, M. M. (2022). Role of GOs and NGOs in Empowering and Developing Agency in Women in the DisasterProne Coastal Bangladesh: A MixedMethod Study. Journal of Disaster, Vulnerability and Resilience (JDVR), IDMVS,University of Dhaka. 

·        Khan, M. M., Dey M. R. & Bhattacharjee, M.(2020). Hybridization of Bengali Culture and Young Generation of Bangladesh: ASociological Study. The Journal of SocialStudies, Issue No. 165.

·       Mazumder,N.,  Khan,  M. M., &  Islam, M. J., (2019). Prevalence and factors of intimate partner violence inBangladesh: A review of literature. JagannathUniversity Journal of Social Science. Volume. 4(2).

·        Rahman,M., & Khan, M. M., (2019). Adaptation mechanisms and challenges to water pollution in Bangladesh: Acase of Buriganga River. Jagannath University Journal of Social Science.Volume. 4(1).

·        Kamal,M., Umama, U., Roman, S., & Khan, M.M. (2018). Impact of Flood on Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health: AnEmpirical Evidence from Northern Bangladesh. Global Journal of Medical Research. Vol. 18 (5).

·        Azad,Md. Abul Kalam and Khan, M. M. (2015).  Post Disaster Social Pathology in Bangladesh.A Case Study on Aila Affected Areas.Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. Volume 3(2).

·       Mazumder, N. and Khan, M.M. (2014) Understanding Community Policing as anInnovative and Alternative Platform of Traditional Policing for Safer Society.Jagannath University Journals of Arts. Vol. 4(1).

·        Khan M. M. (2012). Consumption as Means of Communication in UrbanBangladesh: The Case of Dhaka City. Jagannath University Journal of SocialScience. Volume. 2 (1).

·        Khan, M.M. andMostafa Kamal, Abu Hena (2014),Disaster and vulnerability of women in coastal Bangladesh. Jagannath University Journal of SocialScience. Volume. 2(2).

·        Khan, M.M. andAzad, Abul Kalam (2012). The Nexus between Local Politics and SalinityIntrusion in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh: Unveiling the Development Myth. TheJournal of Social Development. Volume 24 (1).

·        Khan, M.M. andAzad, Md. Abul Kalam (2013). Struggle against Salinity Intrusion: Exploring theAlternative Coping Mechanism of Coastal Community in Bangladesh. The Journal of Social Studies, Issue no138.

·        Khan, M.M. andZaman Md Rafiuz (2012). Globalization and Information Explosion: Opportunityfor Resistance. The Journal of SocialStudies, Issue No. 135.

·        Kundu,D. and Khan, M. M. (2010). Rethinking Globalization andCultural Imperialism: Developing World Perspective.The Journal of Social Studies, Issue No. 128.

·        Uddin,Jamal, A. K. M. Khan, M. M. and Kundu, D. (2010). Globalizationand Resistance: An anti-capitalist manifesto. Society and Change. Vol. IV,(3).

·        Uddin,Jamal, A. K. M., and Khan, M. M. (2008).TheChanging Nature of Class Formation Under Globalization. Social Science Review. Vol. 25 (1).

·        Uddin,Jamal, A. K. M., Khan, M. M. (2008). Empowerment and Resistance: A Studyof Women Refugees as Member of Self Organized Groups in UK. The Journal of Social Studies. Issue No.125.

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Paper presented at InternationalConferences/Seminars

·        Khan, M. M.(December, 2019). Empowerment and Agency of Women in the Disaster ProneCoastal Bangladesh. A paper presented at the International Symposium onEnvironment, Disaster and Health (ISEDH) organized by IDMVS, Dhaka University& ISPRS, USA.

·        Khan, M. M.(May, 2019) Globalization, Consumption and Identity in a DevelopingWorld: A Study in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A paper presented at the 1st internationalconference on ‘Social Sciences and Law’ (14-15 May, 2019), organized by theDepartment of Sociology and Department of Law, University of Barisal, Bangladesh.

·        Khan, M. M.(April, 2019). A changing wave in the roles and practices among coastalwomen in Bangladesh. A paper presented on ‘National Conference on Fostering C4DResearch to Achieve Results for Children’ (24 April), jointly organized UNICEFand Ohio University.

·        Khan, M. M.(March, 2019). Entitlements to resources, participation in decisionmaking, vulnerability and coping mechanisms of the women: A study in the southcentral coastal Bangladesh. Paper presented at the international conference on‘State and Society in South Asia: A historical Perspective’ (15-16 March 2019),organized by the Department of History, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladeshand Moulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, India.

·        Khan, M. M.(January, 2019). Unraveling the livelihood-induced risk of resourcedependent communities: A case of vulnerable deep sea fishermen in south-centralcoastal Bangladesh. Paper presented at the international conference on‘Disaster Risk Management’ (12-14 January 2019), organized by BUET, JIDPUS,Dhaka.

·        Khan, M. M. (June,2018). Disaster and women: The changing position of women in coastalBangladesh. A paper presented at the international conference on ‘Developmentand Network’ [Devnet 2018] (12 June 2018), organized by University of Waikato,New Zealand.

·        Khan, M. M (January,2018). Getting Women Heard: A Changing Wave in Roles and Practices amongCoastal Women in Bangladesh. Presented at the international conference on‘South Asian Sociology and Beyond’ (18-19 January 2018), organized by theDepartment of Sociology, University of Dhaka.

·        Khan, M.M.(November, 2014). Changing role of social institutions towards women in thecoastal area in Bangladesh. Presented at the international conference on‘Gender and Society’ organized by the School of Arts, University of Brunel,London, UK.

·        Khan, M.M. (December,2015). Disaster and gendered vulnerability in the coastal area in Bangladesh’.A paper presented at the international conference on ‘South under Colonial Ruleand in the Age of Globalization’ (9-10 December 2015) Organized by New ZealandSouth Asia Centre (NZSAC), University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

·        Khan. M.M (November,2013). Disaster and vulnerability of women. A paper presented on ‘InternationalDisaster Workshop (19-20 November 2013) hosted by Massey University, New Zealand.

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Books

·        Nasreen,M., Hossain, Khondoker M., Khan,M. M. (Eds), (2023). Coastal Disaster Risk Management in Bangladesh:Vulnerability and Resilience. London: Routledge.

·        Khan, M.M. (2022). Disaster and Gender in Coastal Bangladesh:Transformation of Women’s Roles in Reducing Disaster Risk and Vulnerability. Singapore:Springer Nature.

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Research Interest: Vulnerabilities to disaster are not equally distributed all overthe world because of variations in economy, culture, development processes,settlement processes, politics, resource management etc. which is certainlyputting an increasing group of people at higher risk than others. Experience ofenvironmental hazards and risks of catastrophic disaster are shaped by elementsof social structures including class, religion, age, physical ability andgender. Different social groups and different individuals carrydisproportionate ‘vulnerability bundles’. For example, women are the most atrisk when hazardous conditions unfold in disastrous events such as cyclones.And gender in this regard is a pervasive division taking access to social andeconomic resources away from women.

How do disaster, women and vulnerability function in disastrous times in the coastal area in Bangladesh?What are the local practices that are causing disproportionate vulnerability for women?These are two of manyresearch questions that disaster researcher Dr. Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan,Associate Professor has focused on in his research work ‘disaster and gender’in the rural area in Bangladesh. Disaster has obvious and devastating effectson the people whose everyday lives they touch. But what is the nature of impactand how does it differ for men and women? These questions led Dr Khan toexplore in-depth on some other question such as:
Is only gender matter or something else make the women disproportionately vulnerable?How do unequal access and entitlements to resources impact women in vulnerable situations?How does involvement and participation of women/women reduce vulnerability, develop agency and empower women?How are GO and NGOs interventions contributing in reducing vulnerability and mainstreaming women with decision making process?Are there any changes in local practices, cultural context, lifestyle, livelihood options, participation with decision making process for women in facing disaster?
Taking teaching and research as career with anexpertise on ‘disaster, gender and environment’ Dr. Khan’s one and only missionand vision is to ‘empower and develop agency of women’ in DRR institutionallythrough sustainable development in the most disaster prone coastal area and formost vulnerable people which will ultimately assist the government to achieveSDG.

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·        UC Doctoral Scholarship, New Zealand

·        Helen McMillan Brown Bursaries Ph.D 2nd year

·        C. Wright Mills Scholarship in Ph.D 3rd year

·        Graduate Support Scholarship (GSS) for MScDegree in LSE, London

·        Talentfull Scholarship for outstanding result inHSC

·        Talentfull Scholarship for outstanding result inSSC

·        Talentfull Scholarship in Junior ScholarshipExamination in Class VIII

·        Talentfull Scholarship in Class V