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Ferdous Farhana Huq

ফেরদৌস ফারহানা হক

Assistant Professor

  •  Room No:  URP Admin Building
  •  Phone:   880-1911532162 , 880-1911532162
  •  Email:   ferdous.huq08buet@gmail.com
  • farhana@urp.ruet.ac.bd
  •  Website:   Ferdous Farhana Huq

I have been working as an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning since 30th June, 2020. I joined in this dept. as a lecturer in 24th July, 2017. Before joining this dept I worked in Housing and Building Research Institute as a research fellow for 8 months (Jan 2015 to Aug 2015). I also worked in BUET-JIDPUS for 3 months as a research Assistant in 2014. I received the South Asian Water Fellowship (SAWA) based on my excellent performance in the Master's entrance exam of the Institute of Water Management of BUET, which took place just after completing my graduation from BUET in 2014. However, I received a prestigious VLIR-UOS scholarship from Belgium and joined the master's program of the Institute of Development Policy of Antwerp University in 2015. After completing my masters, I came back to Bangladesh and Joined as a Lecturer at this University.
To date, I worked in 2 research projects which are completed and publications from these projects are available online. My research interests primarily focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation, heritage management, urban form, urban space, and public space design.

Ongoing Research

Project Title: Designing the urban amenities to control the spread of infectious diseases at city scale.
Funding Source: Young Research Grant, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology
Amount: BDT 150,000                                                                                   Grant Period: 2020-2021

Project Title: Impact of Ground Water Depletion on Agricultural Growth Of Barind Tract in Bangladesh
Funding source: Bangladesh Academy of Rural Development (BARD)
Amount: BDT 300,000                                                                                    Grant Period: 2019-2020

Field of Research
  •  Urban Open spaces
  •  Heritage Management
  •  Urban space and Public Space Design
  •  Urban Form
  •  Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Google Scholar Citation
  •  First Joined: 24th Jul, 2017
  •      Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning

Position

Education

Book / Book Chapter
2
Journal Articles
4
Conference Papers
5
SL Authors Title Publisher Details Publication Year Type
1 Sonia Rahman, Ferdous Farhana Huq, Bayes Ahmed, Md Rahman, Tahmeed M Al-Hussaini Assessing Social Vulnerability to Landslide Disasters in Chittagong City, Bangladesh Springer, Singapore 2022 Book Chapter
2 Ferdous farhana huq, Dr. Nathalie holvoet, Mazharul Huq Application of mobile technology in monitoring and evaluation of household water security for Dhaka city Technology in society, Elsevier 2020 Journal
3 MD. Kamruzzaman, Ferdous Farhana Huq IMPACT OF GROUND WATER DROUGHT ON DOMESTIC WATER USE IN BARIND TRACT, BANGLADESH Journal of Water and Environmental Sciences 2020 Journal
4 F.F Huq HERITAGES: THE PRIDE OF URBAN SPACE Iranian Association of Urban Designers 2020 Book Chapter
5 F.F Huq, N Islam, M.S Zubayer Green Roof: An approach to repair the climate of Dhaka city 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia 2019 Conference
6 F.F Huq, IUK Shuvo, N Islam The Essence of Urban form and its Relationship with Urban Aesthetics: A case from Rajshahi City, Bangladesh 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia 2019 Conference
7 N. ISLAM , S. AFROZ & F.F. HUQ Mental Mapping of Diversified Urban Interaction Spaces at Residential Areas in Dhaka Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of Faculty of Architecture Research Unit (FARU) 2019 Conference
8 FF Huq, R Akter, R Hafiz, AA Mamun, M Rahman Conservation planning of built heritages of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh" Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Emerald Insight Publishing Ltd 2017 Journal
9 Rahman, MS; Ahmed, B; Huq, FF; Rahman, S; Al-Hussaini, T; Landslide Inventory in an Urban Setting in the Context of Chittagong Metropolitan Area, Bangladesh Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE-2016) 2016 Conference
10 S Tehsin, FF Huq, A Islam IDENTIFICATION OF URBAN RURAL LINKAGE THROUGH THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF GROWTH CENTRE OF DHAKA CITY Bangladesh Research Publications Journal 2015 Journal
11 Ahmed, B; Rahman, MS; Rahman, S; Huq, FF; Ara, S Landslide Inventory Report of Chittagong Metropolitan Area, Bangladesh BUET-Japan Institute of Disaster Prevention and Urban Safety 2014 Conference
  •  Young Research Grant 2020-2021
  •  South Asian Water Fellowship
  •  VLIR-UOS Scholarship, Belgium
  •  South Asian Water Fellowship
  •  (2015-2016) VLIRUOS Scholarship, Belgium
  •  Associate Member, Bangladesh Institute of planners
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