Curriculum Vitae

                  PERSONAL INFORMATION

                             First name/ Surname

                              Nick Name

                              Mailing Address

                              Nationality

                              Date of Birth

                              Gender

                               Father

                              Mother

                             EDUCATION

                             2011-2012              

                             2007-2008

                              2003-2007

ISHRAT JAHAN KHAN

BARSHA

Assistant Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka.

Room 5029, Arts Building, University of Dhaka.  Neelkhet-1000

+ 880 1918 757677

ishrat@du.ac.bd

Bangladeshi

April 27, 1984

Female

(Late) Md. Giasuddin Khan, Ph D (Employed before in Food And Agricultural Organization, FAO, United Nations)

 Kamrun Nahar Khan

European Commission awarded Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (GEMMA)

MA in Women and Gender Studies

University of Hull, England

Master in Social Science, (MSS)

 Department of Women & Gender Studies, University of Dhaka

 Faculty of Social Science

 CGPA: 3.97/4

 Bachelor of Social Science (BSS)

 Session: 2002-2006

 Department of Women & Gender Studies, University of Dhaka

 Faculty of Social Science

 CGPA: 3.84/4

      STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM

                                                2007

                  WORK EXPERIENCE

                 March 2015- ongoing

               October 2012- March 2015

              November 2013- April 2016

                 October 2013- April 2015

       February 2011 –September 2011

                     August, 2009- Feb 2011

February - August 2009

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

                          March 2016- ongoing

                          January 2016- ongoing

                          June 2015-ongoing

June 2015- ongoing

February- December 2015

                                                2014

            August  2013- February 2014

           February - May 2013

                   October 2012- June 2013

                   February - August 2009  

                   March- June 2008

Participated in Student Exchange Program on Gender and Development at AIT (Asian Institute of Technology)

Duration: February 21 to March 30, 2007

Affiliated by: Royal Netherlands Embassy

Assistant Professor, Department of Women & Gender Studies, University of Dhaka

Lecturer, Department of Women & Gender Studies, University of Dhaka

House Tutor at Rokeya Hall, University of Dhaka

Student Advisor, Department of Women & Gender Studies, University of Dhaka

Program Associate; Education, Climate Change and Justice

ActionAid Bangladesh

Type: INGO

House- 8, Road 136, Gulshan-1, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Phone: +88 02 8837796

Communication & Documentation Associate - Asia Regional Education Network (AREN)

Social Development & Economic Justice Sector

ActionAid Bangladesh

House- 8, Road 136, Gulshan-1, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Phone: +88 02 8837796

 Research Associate, Education Theme, Social Development And Economic Justice Sector, ActionAid Bangladesh

House- 8, Road 136, Gulshan-1, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Phone: +88 02 8837796

Junior Researcher, Engaging Men and Boys for Gender Equality and SRHR in Bangladesh

Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Bangladesh funded by NWO-WOTRO in Netherlands

The BraveMen Campaign to Ensure Gender Equitable Food Sharing at the Household: Addressing Masculinities involving Boys in a Northern Village of Bangladesh, funded by Illinois University Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA

Objectification of Women’s and Girl’s Images in Bangladeshi Media: A Study in Selective Locations of Dhaka funded by Plan International  

MenCare Bangladesh: Engaging Fathers for Family Well-Being and Gender Transformation, led by Promundu, USA & CMMS, Bangladesh

Women and Gender Specialist, Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, United Nations

CARE Bangladesh research on ‘Understanding Construction of Masculinities at Institutions and Extreme Poor Households in Rural Bangladesh’

WHO-DWGS Research Project on ‘Engendering HIS (Health Information System) in Bangladesh’ funded by WHO

Research on ‘Community Dialogue Facilitation Manual on Masculinity and GBV (Gender Based Violence) Development Project, DWA’ in Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Government of Bangladesh funded by UNFPA

Research Associate on ‘Zero Tolerance against Violence against Girls (VAG)’ 

Research Associate on ‘Value of  Education and Rate of Return’

Social Development & Economic Justice Sector

ActionAid Bangladesh

Research Associate, (Media advocacy research on exploring the gender insensitive words abruptly used in the mainstream Dailies)

Gender in Media Forum

Type: NGO

Secretariat, Steps Towards Development, Lalmatia, Dhaka

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

October 2005- to present

January 2016- present

Senior News Presenter, Channel i, Impress Telefilms Limited, Dhaka

Executive Member, Rainbow Film Society

     September 2012- December 2012

     June 2008- February 2009

        April – October, 2008

                    CONFERENCE ATTENDED

                  CONFERENCE ORGANIZED   

Freelance work, report writing in Brave Men Campaign, UNDP Capacity Development Project for National Human Rights Commission in Bangladesh funded by UNDP

Worked (freelance) as Rapporteur,Translator and other documentation and advocacy works in Save the Children Sweden - Denmark, Dhaka

 Type: INGO

 House 9, Road 16, Gulshan1, Dhaka

 +88 02 8812389

Voluntary work in a UN affiliated organization on HIV/AIDS

Paper entitled ‘’Engaging fathers to reduce violence against children and women within households in Bangladeshi rural communities’’ presented at ‘Sixteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations’ organized by University of Granada on July, 2016

 Paper entitled ‘Engendering Health Information System in Bangladesh’ presented at    ‘Knowledge and Politics in Women and Gender Studies’ Conference organized by Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara on October 2015

 Attended Conference on October, 2013 at Osaka, Japan organized by the Academic Forum,  IAFOR.  A paper presented entitled Education and Gendered Politics

International Conference on Gender, Diversity and Development, ICGDD 2015, organized by the Department of Women & Gender Studies

Communication Coordinator, International Conference on Gender, Diversity and Development organized by the Department of Women & Gender Studies, University of Dhaka held in March 2015

Conference on Women Film Makers 2014 jointly organized by the Department of Women & Gender Studies and University of Dhaka

                         TRAINING PROGRAM

                                                  2013                                    

                                                 2012

                                                2009

                             PUBLICATIONS                 

1. Coordinator, DAAD Training on Gender and Education organized by the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and the University of Applied Sciences, Kiel, Germany

1. Training on Media as a Tool for Development, organized by European Commission in London, England

1. Organized and participated in Feminist Leadership Forum, FLF in ActionAid Bangladesh, Dhaka

1. Khan, Ishrat (2015) Indian Nationalist Movement: Revolutionary women missing in the resolution? Social Science Journal, University of Dhaka
2. Imtiaz, Saikh and Khan, Ishrat; et.al. (2013) Understanding Construction of Masculinities at Institution and Extreme Poor Households in Rural Bangladesh. Dhaka: Care Bangladesh
3. Khan, Ishrat (2014) Engendering Development: Feminist Concern, Journal of Development Management and Communication, Vol 1, Number 2 (April-June, 2014), Jaipur, India

1. Khan, Ishrat & Zareen, Firdous. (2013) Dilemmas of Middle Class Working Women in Dhaka City; Empowerment Journal; Vol. 20. Dhaka: Women for Women, A Research and Study Group

1. Khan, Ishrat (2010) Institution of Motherhood: Exploring the Challenges & Dynamics of Middle Class working women with or without children. Dhaka: Agami Bangladesh

1. Khan, Ishrat & Tanjeem, Nafisa. (2009) The impact of Hegemonic Masculinity on middle class working women and the public private dichotomy of middle class mother and non-mother. Dhaka: Department of Women and Gender Studies

1. (10 entries on) Gender & Development Dictionary; ed. Selina Hossain, February; 2010

1. Women, Womanhood & Womenization (Bengali) in a gender based Little Magazine, “Shabdo”
2. Edited and Compiled the annual newsletter of year 2010, from AREN, Asia RegionalEducation Network, ActionAid