Department of Social Relations
Faculty
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social SciencesAddress
A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
- MA in Environment and Development, King’s College London, UK
- M.Sc. in Geography and Environment (Disaster Management), University of Dhaka
- B.Sc. in Geography & Environment, University of Dhaka
- Summer School training on Geospatial technologies and remote sensing for monitoring sustainable Development Goals (SDG) from Central European University, Hungary
Trained as a geographer, I am serving as a Senior Lecturer at the East West University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. My interests is to explore and examine the synergy between the environment and society, especially the context of dynamic situation triggered by climate change and natural hazards. My work also explores how communities and institutions respond to environmental stress, with a particular focus on public participation in climate governance, coastal adaptation, and migration and displacement driven by environmental changes.
I hold an MA in Environment and Development from King's College London, where I studied as a Chevening Scholar, and an MSc in Geography and Environment (Disaster Management) and a BSc in Geography and Environment, both from the University of Dhaka. My work has appeared in journals including Local Environment, Discover Environment, and Frontiers in Climate, and has been presented at international conferences and workshops across Europe, Asia, and Africa. My research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the EWU CRT, World Climate Research Programme, Transparency International Bangladesh, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, among others. I serve as a reviewer for journals such as Environment, Development and Sustainability and GeoJournal, and I founded the SDG Lab, a youth platform for sustainable development education in Bangladesh.
Visit my personal website: https://www.rezsid.com
- Fellow: 2050 Climate Collective of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK (2019 - 2020)
- Young Research Fellow: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) (2019 – 2020)
- Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research (C3ER), BRAC University (February 2017 – December 2017)
- UN Sustainable Development Solution Network – Youth (March 2017 – March 2018)
- Urban Studio, University of Dhaka (September 2016 – Jan 2017)
- Yunus Centre (Dec 2012 – Aug 2015)
- Youth Leading Environmental Change (YLEC) (June 2012-Nov 2012)
- Centre for Urban Studies (CUS), Dhaka (Sep 2010 – Sep 2011)
- Disaster Research Training and Management Centre (DRTMC), University of Dhaka (Jan 2010 – June 2010)
- Research Assistant: Disaster Research Training and Management Centre (DRTMC), University of Dhaka (Jan 2010 – June 2010)
- Climate Change and Environmental Migration
- Climate Change Governance
- Public Participation
- Rohingya Refugee
- Urban Resilience, Urban Adaptation of Climate Migrants
- Landslide
- Politics of Natural Hazards
- Visit my research website: https://www.rezsid.com/research
Siddiqui M R (2024) Migrants in urban water: A synthesis of Dhaka presented in the International Workshop on Urbanization and Sustainable Water Management Strategies in the Global South on November 4–5, 2024, at Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich, Germany.
Siddiqui M R (2023) Climate-related Mobility in Coastal Islands of the Bay of Bengal: An investigation into the interconnections and disparities among governance initiatives. Paper presentation at the 2nd Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies Conference (OMICS). 22-24 November 2023. Gothenburg, Sweden.
Siddiqui M R (2023) Examining participation in climate decision-making: myth and reality. Paper presentation at the WCRP Open Science Conference. 22- 28 October 2023. Kigali, Rwanda.
Hossain M A, Sultana S, and Siddiqui M R (2022) Effects of the Nature of Urban Development on Land Surface Temperature (LST) at the Neighbourhood Scale in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. Environment and Urbanization ASIA. https://doi.org/10.1177/09754253221121299
Siddiqui, M. R (2019) Public Participation in Ecosystem-Based Adaptation: Myth and reality. Paper presented at the Regional expert’s symposium on ecosystem-based adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Chengdu, People’s Republic of China. ICIMOD and Chinese Academy of Science.
Siddiqui M R (2018) Assessing the role public participation in safeguarding the good governance of climate finance at 5th International Integrative Research Conference on Governance and Modernization in Changing Environment. BARD, Comilla, Bangladesh
Nazem N I, Siddiqui M R, (2018) Climate Change and Displacement of People: The Process of their Adaptation in Dhaka Metropolitan Region for Making the City Resilient at CitiesIPCC 2018 conference in Edmonton, Canada, March 2018
Siddiqui M R, (2018) Empowering Youth to Implement the New Urban Agenda in their Cities at 9th World Urban Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 2018
Nazem N I, Siddiqui M R, Hossain M R (2017) Climate Change Induced and Environmentally Stressed Migration in Dhaka at Impact World 2017 conference in Potsdam, Germany, October 2017
Siddiqui M R (2016) State polity as controlling factors of natural hazards. Presentation at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016, Royal Geographical Society in London, September 2016
Siddiqui M R (2016) Interaction between state’s political characteristics and regime types with natural hazards, Poster presentation. RSS 2016 International Conference, University of Manchester, September 2016
Siddiqui M R (2016) Inauspicious option: Migration towards more vulnerability. Poster presentation. RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference, Department of Geography, Newcastle University, 17th-18th March 2016.
Siddiqui R (2014) Unplanned Development and Landslide Hazards in Hilly Regions of Bangladesh. Presented at International Conference on Environment and Development. 7-8 March 2014. Rajshahi. Bangladesh
Siddiqui R (2014) Migration as an Adaption or Failure of Adaptation to Natural Hazards in Coastal Islands of Bangladesh. Presentation at 2nd National Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change (NCBA2). Dhaka, Bangladesh
Siddiqui R (2012) Changing Climate and the Increasing Vulnerability of Landslide of Hazard in Bangladesh. Presentation at National Youth Forum, ICIMOD. Rangamati, Bangladesh. 17-20 December 2012
Siddiqui M R (2026) Does public participation work in climate change adaptation? Evidence from coastal Bangladesh. Local Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2026.2669752
Siddiqui, M. R (2020) Climate Migration in South Asia. Global Dialogue. Vol 10 (3)
Siddiqui M R and Hossain M A (2019) Climate Change and Migration in coastal areas in South Asia. In: W. L. Filho, A. Azul, L. Brandli, P. Özuyar, T. Wall (eds) Climate Action. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Cham. Springer Nature. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_101-1
Siddiqui R (2014) Patterns and Factors of Natural Hazard Induced Out-migration from Meghna Estuarine Islands of Bangladesh. GeoScape 8 (1).
Siddiqui R (2014) Migrants on offshore islands of Bangladesh. Forced Migration Review, Crisis Migration, University of Oxford. UK. http://www.fmreview.org/crisis/siddiqui
- 2024 Workshop Grant from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) and Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Germany to attend Urbanization and Sustainable Water Management Strategies in the Global South
2023 Early-to-mid-Career Researcher Grant from World Climate Research Programme to participate Symposium for Early and Mid-Career Researchers and present research at the Open Science Conference 2023
2020 Research Grant (co-investigator) from the Center for Research and Training (CRT) of East West University for research on Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh
2019 Grant from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) to attend Regional experts' symposium on Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya in Chengdu, China
2019 Fellowship and Grant from the 2050 Climate Collective initiate of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) to attend high-level panel sessions and series of workshops organised by IIED during the London Climate Week
2019 Fellowship and Research Grant under the Young Research Fellowship Program of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB)
2018 Conference Grant from SDSN Youth to attend 9th World Urban Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2017 Leadership Award from the Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research (C3ER), BRAC University
2017 Awarded Local Pathways Fellowship by the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network – Youth
2017 Conference grant from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
2016 SUN Scholarship from Central European University (CEU), Hungary, to attend summer school training on 'geospatial technologies and remote sensing for monitoring sustainable Development Goals (SDG).'
2015 Chevening Scholarship, Chevening is the UK government’s international scholarships and fellowships programme funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
2016 SUN Scholarship from Central European University (CEU), Hungary, to attend summer school training on 'geospatial technologies and remote sensing for monitoring sustainable Development Goals (SDG).' - 2015 Chevening Scholarship, the UK government’s global scholarship programme, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), UK
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PPHS7103: Introduction to Environmental health
PPHS7021/ GEN7023 Ecological system and environment
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EHS7301: Global Environmental Challenges
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EHS7303: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
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EHS7401: Environmental Health in Emergencies
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POP 8504: Population, Poverty and Environment
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POP 8509: Disaster Management and Climate Change
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POP9507: Urbanization and Migration
- Mr. Md Rezwan Siddiqui, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Relations, was elected as one of the members of the Executive Committee of the renowned NGO Disabled Rehabilitation and Research Association (DRRA). Since 1996, DRRA has tirelessly championed holistic development for persons with disabilities.
