Dr. Aziz's research interests include the everyday digital media practices among migrant and marginalised communities, particularly at the crossroads of media, migration, culture, religion, and society. He completed PhD in Media and Communication Studies from the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Brisbane, and his doctoral thesis explores Rohingya refugees' everyday digital media practices in negotiating identity, inclusion, and belonging. His work contributes to the emerging field of digital migration studies and communication geography in understanding space/place, power, and (im)mobility.  Earlier, he completed an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Digital Communication (DCLead) at Salzburg University, Austria, and Vrije University Brussels, Belgium. 

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.  Additionally, he writes for public media (such as academic blogs and magazines) including The Diplomat, The Conversation and 360info, and he has also been interviewed by journalists, including Special Broadcasting Service (SBS Bangla) 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 accessible [here PDF] as well as through the following academic platforms.  

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