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
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2023). Spatial justice, contested governance and livelihood challenges in Bangladesh: the production of counterspace. London, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003350095
Book Chapters
Holtum, Peter James (PJ), Lata, Lutfun and Marston, Greg (2023). Be your own boss: the role of digital labour platforms in producing migrant masculinity(ies). Migratory men: place, transnationalism and masculinities. (pp. 123-138) edited by Garth Stahl and Yang Zhao. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003353232-12
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). Poverty, gender, and informal livelihoods: access to public space and livelihood challenges in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Security, development and sustainability in Asia: volume 3: environment, sustainability and human security. (pp. 197-211) edited by Zhiqun Zhu. Singapore, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. doi: 10.1142/9789811258220_0039
Reddel, Tim, Hand, Kelly and Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). Influencing social policy on families through research in Australia. Family dynamics over the life course: foundations, turning points and outcomes. (pp. 297-312) edited by Janeen Baxter, Jack Lam, Jenny Povey, Rennie Lee and Stephen R. Zubrick. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-12224-8_14
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). Pursuing justice for all: eviction and environmental injustice in Dhaka. The Bangladesh environmental humanities reader: environmental justice, development victimhood, and resistance. (pp. 73-85) edited by Samina Luthfa, Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan and Munasir Kamal. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
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 (2023). Book Review: Automation is a myth. New Media & Society, 25 (10), 2829-2830. doi: 10.1177/14614448231185905
Staines, Zoe, Smith, Kiah, Plage, Stefanie, Nahar Lata, Lutfun, Fay, Suzanna, Zheng, Zhaoxi, Simpson Reeves, Laura, Beazley, Helen, Kuskoff, Ella, Clarke, Andrew, McGowan, Glenys, Shevellar, Lynda and Prangnell, Jonathan (2023). Social science as social action to address inequalities. Australian Journal of Social Issues. doi: 10.1002/ajs4.272
Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Burdon, Jasmine and Reddel, Tim (2022). New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour. Sociology Compass, 17 (1) e13028. doi: 10.1111/soc4.13028
Urban ECA Collective, Ahmed, Nabeela, Baker, Alexander G., Bhattacharya, Akash, Cawood, Sally, Cabrera Pacheco, Ana Julia, Daniel, Mallo Maren, Grandi, Matheus, Grimaldo-Rodríguez, Christian O., Guma, Prince K., Habermehl, Victoria, Higgins, Katie, Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Liu, Minsi, Luederitz, Christopher, Macktoom, Soha, Macrorie, Rachel, Melgaço, Lorena, Morales, Inés, Noterman, Elsa, Owen, Gwilym, Oyalowo, Basirat, Purvis, Ben, Robin, Enora, Sawyer, Lindsay, Terruhn, Jessica, Unnikrishnan, Hita, Verbeek, Thomas, Villegas, Claudia and Westman, Linda (2022). Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university. City, 26 (4), 562-586. doi: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2091826
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, 37 (4), 399-402. 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, 71 (6), 001139212210780-1177. 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, 35 (25), 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, 32 (4-5), 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 and Reddel, Tim (2022). Place-based collective impact model: Exploring the challenges and opportunities intermediaries experience while delivering place-based initiatives in Australia. The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) , Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 28 November - 2 December 2022.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). New Tech, old exploitation: Migrant labour, algorithmic control and mythical autonomy in the gig economy. The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 28 November - 2 December 2022.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). Covid 19 and uneven citizenship in Bangladesh. Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) conference 2022, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 5 - 8 July 2022.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). New Tech, old exploitation and racialised logics of exploitation: an agenda for research. The Institute of Australian Geographers Inc. Conference 2022: landscapes of change, challenge and creativity, Armidale, NSW, Australia, 5 - 8 July.
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 (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, 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 (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). 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). Gendered space and street vending in urban Bangladesh. UQ Social Science Postgraduate Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia., 3 November 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). 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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.
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
Research Reports
Alderton, Amanda , Villanueva, Karen , Davern, Melanie , Reddel, Tim , Lata, Lutfun Nahar , Moloney, Susie , Gooder, Haydie , Hewitt, Thea , DeSilva, Ashton , Coffey, Brian , McShane, Ian and Cigdem-Bayram, Melek (2022). What works for place-based approaches in Victoria. Part 1: A review of the literature. Richmond, VIC, Australia: Jesuit Social Services . doi: 10.25439/rmt.19304123.v1
Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Reddel, Tim and Head, Brian (2022). Stronger places, stronger people- alignment of frameworks and funding. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Povey, Jenny, Cook, Stephanie, O'Flaherty, Martin, Burger, Sarah-Ann, Lee, Rennie, Liudmila Druzenko, Karlee O'Donnell, Sharma, Nikita, Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Young, Charlotte, San Martin Porter, Macarena, Hoffstaedter, Gerhard, Martin, Sean, Edwards, Ben, Baxter, Janeen and Reddel, Tim (2022). CRISP Evaluation Plan. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Yates, Miriam S., Curry, Matthew, Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Young, Charlotte, Porter, Dave, McDaid, Lisa and Reddel, Tim (2022). Desktop Review: Equity and Wellbeing Frameworks. Long Pocket, QLD, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.
Young, Charlotte, Curry, Matthew, Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Yates, Miriam, Porter, Dave, McDaid, Lisa and Reddel, Tim (2022). Desktop review: Lived expertise insights. Brisbane, QLD, Australi: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Curry, Matthew, Yates, Miriam, Young, Charlotte, Porter, Dave, McDaid, Lisa and Reddel, Tim (2022). Desktop Review: Queensland Equity Data. Brisbane, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar and Reddel, Tim (2022). Place-based approaches – a guide for the Victorian Public Service. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Curry, Matthew, Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Yates, Miriam, Young, Charlotte, McDaid, Lisa, Reddel, Tim and Porter, Dave (2022). Systems analysis to inform a Queensland equity framework: draft systems insight report. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
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.
Seminar Papers
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). Pandemic governance and uneven citizenship in Dhaka. Architechture, Planning and Building Seminar Series: Post-pandemic Urbanism in Southern Cities: Intensifying cities, leftover urban spaces and pandemic pedagogies. Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne.
Lata, Lutfun Nahar (2022). An Amazon effect? How new technologies, new markets and new management are changing the world of work. Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University.
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.