Dr. Farzana Ahmed Mohuya

About Me, Teaching, Advising/Supervision, Services and Outreach & Research Collaboration/Opportunity

My research and teaching interests focuses on natural hazards, risk perception, climate risk management and resilience, in particular focus on flood risk management in urban areas. My research area are therefore, concerned with interactions between interdisciplinary themes including Natural Hazards, Risk, and Emergency Management; Flood Risk Management; Climate Variability; and Hydrology.

I completed my PhD at the School of Engineering of Newcastle University, UK. My doctoral advisors were Prof. Claire Walsh and Prof. Hayley Fowler. I obtained my Masters and Bachelor's degree (First Class with 1^st and 7^th position respectively) in Geography and Environment at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

In my PhD I worked on Urban Flood Risk Management problem in Dhaka (in particular focus on the urban flooding/water logging risk problem in the respective vulnerable and affected wards of the two city corporations’ areas of Dhaka city) in terms of ‘Citizen Science’ approach/concept together with the ‘extreme rainfall pattern and trends’ of Dhaka City. In addition, my research identified the flood extent- flood water inundation depth and flood exposure of the buildings in two case-study catchments in the two city corporations’ areas of Dhaka by applying the hydrodynamic model, CityCAT. Altogether my research quantified both the quantitative and qualitative aspects to analyse urban flooding/water logging risk in Dhaka and proposed a “new holistic framework” to manage the urban flooding risk situation in the city.

Prior to the University of Dhaka, I was in the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (a leading research organisation in Bangladesh) in its "Celebration of 400 Years of Capital Dhaka Programme", where I worked as an Associate Research Coordinator.

Teaching

Masters Courses:

• GETh 512: Hydrology (in 2024, 2025 and 2026)
• GETh 532: Urbanization and Urban System (in 2024 and 2026) and (in 2025; joint course teacher)
• GERe 572: Project on Bangladesh (Masters Research Project supervision for non-thesis group students)
• Masters Thesis (Supervision for MS thesis group students)

Undergraduate Courses:

• GETh 107: Biogeography (in 2026)
• GELb 208: Research Methods and Fieldwork in Human Geography and Environment (in 2024, 2025 and 2026; joint course teacher)
• GETh 303: Climatology (in 2026); (in 2024 and 2025; joint course teacher)
• GELb 308: GIS: Advanced Data Concepts and Spatial Analysis (in 2024; joint course teacher)
• GELb 310: Map Reading and Interpretation (in 2025 and 2026; joint course teacher)

Advising/Supervision

• Masters Thesis Project supervision: Started supervision of Masters Thesis (from March 2025); Supervised two Masters thesis students; both of them completed in August 2026. Co-supervised one Masters Thesis student in 2024.
• Masters Research Project supervision: 2011 - 2017 (Supervised 20 students); in 2025 (supervised one student; completed in 2026)
• Undergraduate [BS. (Hons.)] Reserach Project supervision: 2011 - 2013 (Supervised 11 students)

Most of the research project students (under my supervision) mainly worked and working on the topics of Natarual Hazards and Risk Management, Extreme Weather and Climate events, Climate Variability and its impact, Climate Risk Management, Urban Hydrology; and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Note: Unfortunately, I will be not available to supervise any M.Phil/PhD student for the current and next Academic Session. But, please get in contact if you are interested to work with me for any future opportunity.

Services and Outreach

Services (to the Department and the University)

• Member, Undergraduate Final Examination Committee (for different Academic Sessions), Dept. of Geography and Environment: 2014 - 2018 and 2024 - present
• Member, Undergraduate (for Second Year BS. Hons.) Fieldwork/Field trip Organising Committee, Dept. of Geography and Environment: 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2024 - present
• Member, Professional Masters Semester Final Examination Committee, Dept. of Geography and Environment: 2025 - present
• Member, Advisory Committee of the Environment Club, Dept. of Geography and Environment: November 2024 - November 2025
• In-charge, Seminar Management/Organising Committee, Dept. of Geography and Environment: November 2012 - December 2014
• Member, Deans' Award Organising Committee (for different sub-committees), Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Dhaka: 2011 and 2025.
• Member, National Environemnt Olympiad (NEO) Organising Committee (for different sub-committees), organised by the Environment Club, Dept. of Geography and Environment: 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2018.
• Member, Organising Committee (for different sub-committees), Celebration of 70th and 75th Anniversary of the Department of Geography and Environment of the University of Dhaka: October 2017 - January 2018 and December 2024 - February 2025 respectively.
• Member, Organising Committee (for different sub-committees), Research Fair and Career Festival event, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Dhaka: in January 2026.

Outreach

• Member, Water Group, Civil and Geospatial Discipline/Engineering, School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK (2019 - 2024; Currently alumni member of the group)
• Member, Extreme Weather Group (Prof. Hayley Fowler's research group), Civil and Geospatial Discipline/Engineering, School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK (2020 - 2024)
• Member, Qualitative Research Special Interest Group, Newcastle University, UK (2022 - 2024)
• Postgraduate Researcher (PGR) Volunteer Member, Organising Committee (School of Engineering- Civil Engineering), Faculty PGR Research Conference 2021, Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering, Newcastle University, UK (2021)
• Member (as a PhD Researcher/Student), Tyndall Centre's Research Theme Groups ("Catalysing adaptation and resilience" & "Achieving well-being"), Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK (2021 - 2024)
• Member, Newcastle University Alumni Network (Global Alumni Community), Newcastle University, UK (2024 - present)