The Centre provides assistance to the Faculty members and research students of the Faculty of Social Sciences to : (I) conduct research on key policy issues affecting Bangladesh’s economic, social, administrative and political development; (II) present research outcomes through conferences, seminars, workshops as well as through publications of journals monograph, research reports and reports and seminar/workshop papers; (III) present research and mutually supportive academic pursuits; (IV) gather relevant information and knowledge utilizing training programmes through the Centre’s information services, and library documentation facilities; (V) and develop courses, cultural fellowships through exchanges of scholar as well as through inviting distinguished foreign scholars to give talks/speeches on the topics of academic interest etc.
The Centre has already published seventeen volumes of compilation of research papers in English, titled Perspectives in Social Science, and ten volumes of compilation in Bengali, titled Probandhabali consisting of papers presented by the University teachers and researchers in seminars held at the Centre.
