Dr Aziz is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work sits at the crossroads of media, migration, religion, culture, and society. His research primarily explores how individuals and communities in the Global South, particularly those living at the margins, negotiate (im)mobility, inequality, and power relations through everyday social and digital participation. Being a migrant academic and the focus on migration research steered him toward interdisciplinarity. Drawing on an ethnographic lens, he is particularly interested in exploring how media and cultural practices are used to negotiate identity, belonging and agency in conditions of precarity and displacement. 

He completed a 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. Earlier, he completed an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's in Digital Communication (DCLead) at Salzburg University, Austria, and Vrije Universiteit 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 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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