Researcher biography
Lutfun Nahar Lata is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social Solutions research group within the University of Queensland (UQ) Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR). As part of her PhD and post PhD research, she has developed an impactful program of research into the key social policy topics of poverty governance, precarious work, migration, urban marginality, housing and place-based disadvantage. She is a mixed-methods researcher with extensive experience in conducting and publishing qualitative, quantitative and digital research, and working with multidisciplinary teams that include stakeholders from academia, industry and local and central governments. She is particularly interested in conducting impactful social science research through collaborative, evidenced-based, outcome focussed and mutually beneficial partnerships between researchers and end-users.
Publications
Book Chapters
Lata, Lutfun Nahar and Khan, Adil M. (2021). Spatial justice, livelihood challenges and the urban poor in the Global South: lessons from Bangladesh. Handbook of development policy. (pp. 532-543) edited by Habib Zafarullah and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781839100871.00057
Lata, Lutfun Nahar and Rashid, A. Z. M. Manzoor (2020). Social forestry: principles, evolution, and implications for sustainable development. Encyclopedia of the UN sustainable development goals. (pp. 1-12) edited by Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, Amanda Lange Salvia and Tony Wall. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_148-1
Journal Articles
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). Charity and poverty in advanced welfare states : By cameron parsell, andrew clarke and francisco perales, abingdon, routledge, 2021, 192 pp., $252.00, ISBN: 978 0367713812. Housing Studies, 37 (6), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2080265
Nahar Lata, Lutfun (2022). Visualising gendered space and informality: a photo essay. Visual Studies. doi: 10.1080/1472586x.2022.2070534
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). COVID-19, poverty, and inequality in Bangladesh. Current History, 121 (834), 141-146. doi: 10.1525/curh.2022.121.834.141
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). Next generation technology workforce—precarious work and platform regulation. IEEE Technology Policy and Ethics .
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). The production of counter-space: informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka. Current Sociology, 001139212210780. doi: 10.1177/00113921221078049
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2021). A modern guide to the urban sharing economyThomasSigler and JonathanCorcoran (eds) Edward Elgar Publishing: Northampton, MA, United States, (2021). 336 pages. Price – £120.00 (ISBN – 978‐1‐78990‐955‐5). New Technology, Work and Employment, 37 (1), 152-155. doi: 10.1111/ntwe.12220
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2021). Book review: Decolonial feminisms, power and place : by Laura Rodríguez Castro, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 208 pp., £72.70, £99.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-030-59439-8 (hardback), 978-3-030-59440-4 (eBook). Journal of Intercultural Studies, 42 (6), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/07256868.2021.1988538
Recio, Redento B., Lata, Lutfun Nahar and Chatterjee, Ishita (2021). Rising inequalities, deepening divides: Urban citizenship in the time of COVID‐19. Geographical Research, 59 (4) 1745-5871.12495, 500-513. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12495
Rahman, Mostafizur, Uddin, Helal, Lata, Lutfun Nahar and Uddin, Jalal (2021). Associations of forms of intimate partner violence with low birth weight in India: findings from a population-based Survey. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 1-8. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2021.1940129
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2021). “That’s the area of affluent people where we have no access”: spatial Inequality, gated communities, and the end of public space in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Housing Policy Debate, 1-17. doi: 10.1080/10511482.2021.1905023
Clarke, Andrew, Parsell, Cameron and Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2021). Surveilling the marginalised: How manual, embodied and territorialised surveillance persists in the age of ‘dataveillance’. The Sociological Review, 69 (2), 396-413. doi: 10.1177/0038026120954785
Henman, Paul, Graham, Timothy and Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2021). Building the ‘front door’ within a web ecology: informational governance and institutional shaping of national government webportals. Government Information Quarterly, 38 (2) 101575, 101575. doi: 10.1016/j.giq.2021.101575
Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Walters, Peter and Roitman, Sonia (2020). The politics of gendered space: social norms and purdah affecting female informal work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Gender, Work and Organization, 28 (1) gwao.12562, 318-336. doi: 10.1111/gwao.12562
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2020). Neoliberal Urbanity and the Right to Housing of the Urban Poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Environment and Urbanization ASIA, 11 (2), 097542532093852-230. doi: 10.1177/0975425320938520
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2020). To whom does the city belong? Obstacles to right to the city for the urban poor in Bangladesh. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 51 (4), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1791934
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2020). Gendered urban space in Bangladesh. Global Dialogue, 10 (2), 53-54.
Recio, Redento B., Chatterjee, Ishita and Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2020). Widening Urban Divide: COVID-19 and the Unequal Citizenship. GLOBAL POLICY LAB, 20-21.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2020). Negotiating gatekeepers and positionality in building trust for accessing the urban poor in the Global South. Qualitative Research Journal, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 76-86. doi: 10.1108/QRJ-03-2020-0017
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2020). Book review: Political violence in South Asia. Contemporary South Asia, 28 (1), 135-136. doi: 10.1080/09584935.2020.1721662
Lata, Lutfun , Walters, Peter and Roitman, Sonia (2018). A marriage of convenience: street vendors' everyday accommodation of power in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Cities, 84, 143-150. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2018.08.002
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2013). Cultural capital and higher education in Bangladesh. International Review of Modern Sociology, 39 (2), 225-238.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar and Wohab, Abdul (2011). Relative deprivation of children in Dhaka City: a case study of Dhanmondi. International Review of Modern Sociology, 37 (2), 205-215.
Conference Papers
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). The socio-political context of Bangladesh, Dhaka and the bostees (slums). Asia Pacific Architecture Festival, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 22 March 2022.
Reddel, Tim and Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2021). Queensland Housing Strategy Research and Evaluation Program. Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, NSW Australia, 25 October - 5 November 2021.
Recio, Reden and Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2021). Urban gray space and uneven citizenship: everyday politics of street vendors in Dhaka and Manila. International Sociological International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 21 Conference: Sensing and Shaping the City, Antwerp, Belgium, 14-16 July 2021.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2019). The changing right to the city: slum eviction and the right to housing of the urban poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures: RC21 Conference, Delhi, India, 18-21 September 2019.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2019). Eviction, urban citizenship and belonging: the politics of street vending in Dhaka. Transformative Urban Governance Conference, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 26-27 June 2019.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Farr-Wharton, Geremy, Bradford, Dana and Barnett, Guy (2018). Greening future cities: promoting health through urban design. 11th Liveable Cities Conference, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 16-17 July 2018.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2018). Inhabitance, citizenship and environmental justice: the right to housing and the right to the city of the urban poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2018 Australasian Early Career Researcher Network (AECURN) Queensland Symposium, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 8 September 2018.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2018). Dispossession by ‘development’ and the right to housing of the urban poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences HDR Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 29 June 2018.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2017). To whom the city belongs? Exploring obstacles to a right to the city for the urban poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Geography Counts: Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11-14 July 2017.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2017). Gendered space and street vending in urban Bangladesh. UQ Social Science Postgraduate Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia., 3 November 2017.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2017). To whom does the city belong? Exploring obstacles to a right to the city for the urban poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rethinking Global Urban Justice: RC21 Conference, Leeds, United Kingdom, 11-13 September 2017.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2017). Resistance ‘From Below’: power, contestation and negotiations in the urban poor’s everyday life in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Tenth Global Studies Conference, Singapore, Singapore, 8 - 9 June 20017.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2017). Migration and urban livelihoods: a translocal perspective in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Perth, WA, Australia, 27-30 November 2017. Perth, WA, Australia: The Australian Sociological Association.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2016). Toward an understanding of the poverty-purdah trap in urban Bangladesh: a case study of women workers in the informal economy. UQ Social Science Postgraduate Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4 November 2016.
Lata, Lutfun and Walters, Peter (2016). The Politics of Space in Dhaka: Informality, Power and Negotiations in the Everyday Life of the Urban Poor. The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2016, The Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia, 28 November - 1 December 2016. Melbourne, Australia: The Australian Sociological Association.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2016). The politics of space in Dhaka: informality, power and negotiations in the urban poor’s everyday life. Disruptive encounters: A call for messy research, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 13 August 2016.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2015). The production of space and the right to the city: a case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Work in Progress Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 29 September 2015.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2015). Access to negotiated space and the right to the city of the urban poor in southern Megacities. UQ Social Science Postgraduate Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 5 November 2015.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2012). Stratification in higher education: how social background shapes educational choice in Bangladesh. British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Leeds, United Kingdom, 11-13 April 2012.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2012). Cultural capital, social class and higher education: how institutional cultural capital shapes educational choice in Bangladesh. Bi-Annual Conference of Bangladesh Sociological Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21 – 22 December 2012.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2012). Changing urban culture in Bangladesh: a study of youth culture in Gulshan, Dhaka. International Conference on Urbanization, Sustainability and Governance, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 5-6 December 2012.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2011). Poverty and sanitation linkages: a sociological study on urban poor. Fourth Annual Poverty and Social Protection Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 1-3 March 2011.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar and Wohab, Md Abdul (2010). Relative deprivation of children in Dhaka City: a case study of Dhanmondi. 2010 International Conference on Humanities, Historical and Social Sciences, Singapore, Singapore, 26-28 February 2010. Liverpool, United Kingdom : World Academic Union.
Research Report
Baxter, Janeen, Reddel, Tim, Lata, Lutfun Nahar and MacDermott, Matt (2021). Inquiry into social isolation and loneliness in Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Queensland Parliament: Community Support and Services Committee.
Newspaper Article
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2020, 11 13). Corruption complicates Bangladesh’s fight against COVID-19 East Asia Forum
Generic Document
Recio, Redento B., Chatterjee, Ishita and Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2020). COVID-19 reveals unequal urban citizenship in Manila, Dhaka and Delhi. London School of Economics and Political Science.
Thesis
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2018). Counter-space: a study of the spatial politics of the urban poor in the megacity of Dhaka. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2018.691
Seminar Papers
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). New tech, old exploitation: gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour. Digital Cultures and Societies Inaugural Lightning Talks . Digital Cultures and Societies Hub, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland Australia.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). Bangladesh at 50: Covid-19, pandemic governance and uneven citizenship. School of Global Studies , University of Sussex.