Autore: Alak Paul

Dr. Alak Paul is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at The University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He received his MSc from Dhaka University, Bangladesh in 1999 and Ph D from University of Durham, UK in 2009. Being an empirical geographer, his research and teaching interest spans over public health; society and environment; disaster management etc. for last twenty years. Dr Paul gives emphasis on marginalized and stigmatized people to his studies using qualitative approach and looks at the everyday geographies of various vulnerable people where he establishes how place play a role in (re)shaping the life of people or environment. He has over 40 peer reviewed research publications in reputed journals along with seven book chapters and four authored and/or edited books to his credit.