Poetry meets precision: Celebrating our brilliant winners at RMIT's annual Haiku Your Thesis competition.
On Tuesday night, 27 October 2026, RMIT University held its annual Haiku Your Thesis Competition, and our School truly shone! While we already know we have fantastic higher degree by research (HDR) candidates, it turns out we have brilliant poets among us as well.
A massive congratulations to Sazdik Ahmed and Muzna Anam for their spectacular, award-winning performances! Capturing a complex thesis in just 17 syllables is no small feat, and both researchers represented the School of Property, Construction and Project Management (PCPM) with outstanding creativity.
Sazdik Ahmed – Overall RMIT Runner-Up
- Thesis Title: Adaptive Delta Urbanism: Exploring Traditional Local Knowledge for Flood-Resilient Urban Development in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta
- Thesis Haiku:
- Floods write on the land
- Old hands read the river’s pulse
- The city listens
- Supervisors: Professor Usha Iyer-Raniga and Dr Mittul Vahanvati (GUSS)
Muzna Anam – Overall RMIT Crowd Favourite and College (DSC) Winner
- Thesis Title:Carbon Neutrality in Australian Building and Construction Sector through Nature-Based Solutions
- Thesis Haiku:
- Build for those unborn
- Let earth breathe beneath our roads
- Leave more than we take
- Supervisors: Professor Tayyab Maqsood, Dr Salman Shoostharian, Dr Udawatta Nilupa (Deakin), and Dr Heinz Schandl (CSIRO)
Both Sazdik and Muzna shared how incredibly proud they were to represent PCPM on the university stage. The School is immensely proud of their creativity, communication skills, and outstanding success!
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