Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University
Preston, United Kingdom
Editor-in-chief GBER Global Built Environment Review and SACS South Asian Cultural Studies. Prof. Shakur researches focusing on Sustainability and the Global Built Environment (including Architectural Heritage and Housing studies), South Asian Popular Cultural Studies (including south Asian films and fictions), Multimodal reading and writing experiences in postmodern human geographies. Prof. Shakur successfully supervised PhD students on ‘Low income housing in Amritsar (India), ‘Grameen Bank and Micro-credit system in Bangladesh’ and ’Ethnic conflict and regeneration in Oldham’. Currently supervising a PhD student from Germany on ‘Low income housing delivery in Karachi’.