I hold an MA and a PhD in English Language and Culture, with a focus on dystopian narratives, waste studies, political philosophy and biopolitics, from the University of Eastern Finland. My doctoral research investigates the seminal question of the twenty-first-century in the realm of contemporary dysotpian fiction and film: who gets to live and who is sacrificed? Prior to UEF, I had a BA and an MA in English from the University of Chittagong and worked at a university in Bangladesh for three years as a lecturer of English.
Currently, I am affiliated as a Visiting Researcher with the School of Humanities, Philosophical Faculty (UEF), where my postdoctoral research concentrates on exploring forms of mobility in more-than-human contexts and examining human-nonhuman representations across a multiplicity of narratives, including fiction, films, memoirs, and others. I have also been working on my first monograph that is expected to be finalized between mid- and late 2027.
My research areas are interdisciplinary due to the nature of the topics I investigate, which require intermedial reading, a deep understanding of particular streams within continental philosophy, and extensive engagement with literary and critical theories related to subjectivity, power, borders, sovereignty, politics, and mobility. I am a passionate reader who is in favour of producing scholarship that crosses boundaries by questioning traditional norms, patterns, and grand narratives.
If anyone wishes to form a working group, develop a group project, or write co-authored scientific papers on adjacent themes closest to my interests, they are welcome to reach out to me without hesitation.
I am a Senior Researcher (Innovations and Markets in Bioeconomy) at the Business School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, University of Eastern Finland.
I am keenly interested in examining how technological platforms, particularly social media, intersect with consumers’ lives. I am fascinated by the depth of impact that these platforms have had on facilitating consumers’ awareness of and behavior towards sustainable products. To this end, my research focuses on developing a nuanced understanding of how and why consumers make decisions regarding consumption of sustainable products and services, and what role technology could play in facilitating a more positive consumer outlook towards the same. Additionally, I am intrigued by the ‘dark side of social media’, or the negative effects that social media platforms have had on individual lives and passionate about examining the implications of contemporary issues like fear of missing out, on social media users.
My research has been published in leading journals like the Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Computers in Human Behavior, Internet Research and Information and Software Technology, to name a few.
Mr. Chowdhury is currently conducting his PhD research using remote sensing and deep learning to detect biodiversity indicators. His innovative work focuses on developing new methods for mapping large aspens, Deadwood and community diversity in Finland. He is also working as a Technical Assistant at the University of Helsinki.
He holds two Master’s degrees: one in European Forestry from the University of Eastern Finland and the other in Spatial and Ecological Modeling from the University of Lleida, Spain, which he completed through the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarship program. He completed his bachelor’s degree in forestry from the University of Chittagong. In Bangladesh, he worked for three years as a Research Assistant on four different projects at the University of Chittagong. He also served as a Visiting Researcher at LUKE (Natural Resources Institute Finland) under the AlphaWetland project.
In addition to remote sensing, Mr. Chowdhury has extensive research experience in carbon accounting, gap ecology, urban forestry, bioeconomics, and forest ecology. His scientific publications have appeared in prestigious Journals such as Forest Ecology and Management , Journal of Cleaner Production , and European Journal of Forest Research .
I have studied at the Universities of Tampere and Jyvaskyla, worked as a professor in the University of Joensuu and Tampere, as a docent in the University of Lapland and been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Turku.
I have been a visiting scholar in the University of London, Rochester (N.Y.), Toronto and British Columbia (Vancouver). I have been as a active member, secretary and president of the International Sociological Association’s research committee 04 Sociology of education.
My research focuses on health pedagogy, child and family health, interprofessional collaboration, and competence development.
My ‘politics of nature’ research is much focused on Arctic and Boreal development issues, examined both as local/regional and transnational/planetary questions. A particular target has been Joensuu, a provincial city in Eastern Finland, in which context signs and options of sustainable city planning are identified, examined and promoted. In research practices I have applied and upgraded ‘environmental action research’ methods. As a geographer, I encourage research activities that deal with contemporary socioenvironmental concerns and which also include societal participation.
My research focuses on contemporary American literature and, in particular, the ways in which it negotiates the relationship between violence and American national identity. In my dissertation, I examine how texts written by contemporary American veteran authors of the War on Terror generate counternarratives that contest popular imaginings of war, soldiering, and national belonging.
- Doctor of Education
- University Lecturer in Educational Methodology and Research Practice, University of Eastern Finland
- Docent in Educational Science, specialising in socially oriented educational research, Tampere University
- Member of the Editorial Board of Kasvatus & Aika
Ongoing Projects
Phenomenology of Time
Existential Homelessness
The Ontological Status of Experience
