Ongoing Researches

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Faculty Members Ongoing Researches

  • Social determinants of health
  • Childhood adversities and child/adult health
  • Climate change/disaster and health &
  • Health inequality

Second Language Acquisition
Language Testing and Evaluation
ICT in language Education
Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis

1) Public International Law.


2) International Human Rights Law.


3) International Intellectual Property Law.


4) World Trade Law.


5) International Contract Law.


6) Comparative Law.


7) Law of War. 


8) International Banking Law.


9) Thesis Supervision

Health Inequality, Environment, Political Sociology, Globalization, and Social Policy

Film Studies,

Postcolonial Literature,

Critical Theory,

Latin American Literature,

South Asian Literature

Research Interests

Mohammad Pizuar Hossain's research interests lie at the crossroads of: (a) public international law - international human rights law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international environmental law; (b) criminology and criminal justice - transitional justice, restorative justice, community justice, and gender justice; (c) transnational crimes and genocide studies - cybercrimes, terrorism, human trafficking, and genocide;  and (d) constitutional law and public policy - freedom of speech, right to privacy, freedom of religion and right to health. 

He has published articles in refereed national and international journals on 'trial by media and human rights violations', 'plea-bargaining and the criminal justice system of Bangladesh', 'rape as a weapon in Bangladesh’s War of Liberation', 'amnesty for war crimes and genocide', 'justice for Bangladesh genocide', 'killing of the Bengali intellectuals in 1971 genocide', 'the stages of Rohingya genocide', 'Geo-politics and the Rohingya repatriation', and 'water-management agreements between Bangladesh and India' from 2016 to 2022. 

His journal articles, book chapters and working papers on role of transitional justice to prevent recidivism, restorative justice in Scotland, criminology of transitional justice, genocide memory words, role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in addressing genocide, criminology of aetiology of atrocity crimes, and online hate speech and Bangla content moderation are awaiting publication by 2023-24.

Participation in Research/Training Courses/Programs

1. Summer School on International Criminal Court - 2021, organized by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway, Ireland (8-11 June).

2. Economic Social and Development Residential School - 2021 - Diploma Course, organized by Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal (24-31 May).

3. Training of Human Rights Trainers - 2020 (Case Study Rohingya Youth), organized by Asia Justice and Rights, Indonesia (1 Oct-1 Dec).

4. 100 Bangladeshi Youth Delegates Visit to India - 2018, co-organized by the High Commission of India and the Indian Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (23 Mar-1 Apr).

5. Model International Criminal Court (MICC) Training Course - 2017, organized by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany (18-21 Mar).

6.  Human Rights Summer School on Human Rights and Terrorism - 2015, organized by the Empowerment through Law of the Common People (ELCOP), Dhaka, Bangladesh (20-31 Oct).

7. Winter School on Genocide, Justice, and the New Generation - 2015, organized by the Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice, Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh (17-24 Dec).

8. AsianSIL Youth Forum 2015, organized by the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL), Bangkok, Thailand (26-27 Nov).

Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment; Violence Against Women;
Gender and Development; Technology and Women Development; Society,
Culture and Development; Social Change and Urbanization

Gender, Migration, Women empowerment & rights, Women & femininity, Men & masculinity; 

Poverty, Urban issues, Population, Indigenous peoples, Health & Environment, Culture & Mass Communication, Social change; 

Human rights with special focus on Gender Based Violence & Violence against Women, Sexual Harassment.  

Public International Law, Laws Relating to Transboundary Crimes and Constitutional Law.

  • Climate Change and Environmental Migration
  • Climate Change Governance
  • Public Participation
  • Rohingya Refugee 
  • Urban Resilience, Urban Adaptation of Climate Migrants
  • Landslide
  • Politics of Natural Hazards
  • Knowledge management
  • Marketing of information products and services
  • Digital and electronic libraries
  • Information needs and seeking behavior
  • Library public relations.

Labour and Employment Laws

Constitutional Law

Disaster Law

Health Laws

Air and Space Law

Gender Justice

Applied Linguistics (Discourse, Pragmatics, EFL, Sociolinguistics), SLA

  • Digitization
  • Digital Library
  • Information services 
  • Information needs and Seeking analysis

Gender stratification, Women empowerment, Ethnic minority women’s empowerment and social acceptance, Women and child harassment, Violence against Women, Women Rights and social policy, Gender inequality, Women movement both mainstream and ethnic, Environment and climate change.