Intifar Chowdhury

Dr. Intifar Chowdhury is a Lecturer in Government at Flinders. She is a youth researcher passionate about writing to better the political representation of all young Australians in our democracy.

In July 2023, Intifar completed her PhD in political science at the Australian National University's (ANU) School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR). Her doctoral research tackled the important question of whether young people are turning away from demoracy. It comprised a quantitaive enquiry of advanced democracies using survey data from comparative databases. Beyond academia, Intifar continually strives to translate her research work into public good: her political commentary on youth politics has appeared in diverse media platforms, inlucding The Conversation, The Guardian, The Canberra Times, The Ethics Centre, ABC QandA, Al Jazeera English, Democracy Sausage Podcast, Triple J Hack, Reuters, West Australian, Policy Forum, Australian Institute for International Affairs, and so on.

Before coming to Flinders, Intifar has been an intern at the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia, the Canberra Hospital and the Wissenschaftszentrum fur Scozialforschun (WZB) in Berlin. At ANU, she worked at the Australian Data Archive (ADA) from 2020-2022 before she took up a role as a Senior Survey Research Officer for a youth longitudinal Post-School Destination (GENERATION) survey, conduccted by the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods (CSRM) in collaboration with the Australian Department of Education (DoE). In the past years, Intifar has presented her research as a visiting scholar in the LIfBi research centre in Germany, the OECD Education Directorate in France, and in conference in France, Austria and Italy.

After the end of each day, when she takes off her research hat, Intifar enjoys instructing BodyPump and BodyCombat group fitness classes, contributing to the physical and mental wellbeing of her students and colleagues.