ABM Nurullah

Research interests: sociology of disaster; environmental sociology; agriculture; sociology of poverty; climate change

Bio: A B M Nurullah (He/Him) is a second-year doctoral student in Sociology at Virginia Tech. His research interests include environmental challenges, climate change, disaster, agriculture, and poverty. He authored and co-authored several research articles on topics such as new urban disaster risk assessment, socio-environmental impacts of industrial wastewater disposal, livelihood challenges due to ecological changes, the livelihood challenges of river erosion-displaced people, and the changing dependency pattern of wetland communities on natural resources. His work also addresses assessing new urban poverty among vulnerable urban dwellers.

He was involved as chief researcher in four projects funded by the University Grand Commission (UGC), Bangladesh, where he sought to explore the socio-environmental challenges women face in agricultural activities from an ecofeminism perspective, the impact of industrial wastewater disposal on agriculture, natural resources and health of community people, the role of export processing zones in poverty reduction in the northern region of Bangladesh and the causes of growing academic apathy among tertiary level students.

Before being enrolled in doctoral study, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, at Begum Rokeya University, Bangladesh. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master's in Sociology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a postgraduate diploma in disaster management from the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies at the same university. He was also nominated for Commonwealth Scholarship 2024 to pursue an MSc in Sociology at Glasgow University, UK. In addition to his academic achievements, Nurullah has published articles and features in national newspapers in Bangladesh, and his interviews on various social issues have appeared in print and electronic media.