Debashish Dev

Dr. Debashish Dev is an applied social researcher whose work spans energy transitions, agricultural development, and communication for social change. His research explores how policy, technology, and knowledge systems are received, contested, or reshaped through everyday practice, particularly when transitions are complex, uneven, or resisted. He is especially interested in how learning from implementation challenges, social risk, and overlooked or discontinued ideas can inform more inclusive, adaptive, and context-aware planning.

At the University of Queensland’s Gas and Energy Transition Research Centre, Dr. Dev contributes to research on local benefit-sharing, public discourses on energy policies, social risk assessments, and community engagement strategies in coal seam gas regions. He also works on participatory approaches to community-based monitoring and social impact assessment in strategic regional development, including recent projects in the Northern Territory.

His academic background bridges development sociology, agricultural extension, and communication studies. He has designed and taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in research methods, data and society, and communication for social change, including COMU2030: Communication Research Methods, COMU1130: Data & Society, HHSS6000: Research Design, and COMU7102: Communication for Social Change—Foundations at UQ. He has also contributed to course development at QUT (QUT You 003: Real Action for Real Change), creating content on systemic responses to global challenges such as food security, public health, and environmental risk.

Before his work in Australia, Dr. Dev taught and researched at Bangladesh Agricultural University, focusing on agricultural extension, climate change adaptation, and technology transfer. He holds a Bachelor's (Honours) in Agricultural Science (Bangladesh Agricultural University), a Master's in Agricultural Extension (Bangladesh Agricultural University), and a PhD in Climate and Development (UQ). He is a certified Carbon Literate professional and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).