Nushrat Jahan

I am an aspiring researcher in climate justice, social movements, and urban issues. My research looks at the praxis of collective care, its potential to form solidarity and inform radical politics in global climate justice activism. I am a Planning PhD student at the University of Toronto's St. George campus. I have an MA in Human Geography from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor in Urban Planning from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
I have experience working in climate change impact assessment and adaptation planning, economic development, and disaster management planning. From 2012 to 2014, I have worked on multiple climate change impacts assessment and adaptation planning projects funded by UNICEF and World Bank for public universities and NGOs in Bangladesh. I have worked in Concern Worldwide, BRAC University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. I received a MITACS research grant for my master's research at the University of Alberta, Canada. The MITACS grant allowed me to work closely with the economic development team and the council of the Town of Devon in Alberta. I have worked as a consultant data analyst for the County of Grande Prairie and OctoCo Inc in Alberta, Canada.
I won a MITACS Research Trainee grant in 2020 to study social movement theory, theory of care, and scholarly work on global climate justice activism. I have also worked as a research assistant in SSHRC-funded project "Road building as state-building in Nepal" at University of Toronto. I have been involved with the Innovation Hub and School of Cities at University of Toronto. I worked as a volunteer researcher in the University of Toronto's Innovation Hub in 2019. I was also a member of the Global Urbanism working group at the University of Toronto's School of Cities in 2019. The working group's research was on the displacement of the urban poor in South and Southeast Asia, and it was selected as the best research for the Fall 2019 School of Cities symposium's Impact and Innovation Award.