Dr. Aziz's interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of media, migration, and society, with a particular focus on how digital, social, and cultural practices shape mobility, inclusion, and belonging among marginalized communities. As a critical qualitative and ethnographic researcher, his academic inquiry explores communities in the Global South, especially those living at the margins under conditions of precarity, displacement, and social exclusion.

He completed a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, and Master (MA in Digital Communication) from Salzburg University, Austria, and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium under Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's program (DCLead). 

He received the Transformative Research Award for his outstanding work on the construction of the Rohingya diaspora, digital resistance, and activism online (published in New Media & Society). His research articles have appeared in top-quality Q1 journals, including Policy & Internet; New Media & Society; Media Culture & Society; International Journal of Communication; Communication, Culture and Critique; Contemporary South Asia; Asiascape: Digital Asia, and Technology in Society; and presented papers at major conferences such as ICA, IAMCR & AoIR.  

He writes for public media (such as academic blogs and magazines), including The Diplomat, The Conversation, Monash Lens and 360info, and he has also been interviewed by journalists, including the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS Bangla) in Australia. Before joining Monash, he served as a sessional academic at QUT's School of Communication and as a research assistant at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia. All of his published research articles can be accessed [here PDF] 

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