Touhida Tasnima, PhD

• PhD, University of Malaya, Malaysia
• M.A. in Development Studies (Major in Public Policy and Management), International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
• MSS in Public Administration (University of Dhaka)
• BSS in Public Administration (University of Dhaka)

An academic professional with over 19 years of teaching experience in the university, at both Graduate and Undergraduate levels. She also taught master ’s-level courses as a Guest Lecturer at the University of Malaya in Malaysia.  Her research interests broadly lie in Gender, ICT, and Development Issues.

Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Social Relations, East West University — 2011 – Present Currently teaching: Bangladesh studies (Undergraduate program), Introduction to Development Studies (Undergraduate program)
• Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Relations, East West University — 2004 – 2010
• Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, East West University — 2001 – 2004

Academic and Administrative Experience:

• Member, Academic Vision Committee, East West University — 2016 – Present
• Member, Self Assessment Committee, Institutional Quality Assurance Cell Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project, World Bank — 2016 – Present
• Member, Development Committee, Department of Social Relations — 2014 – Present
• Course Co-coordinator and Course Advisor, Undergraduate students, Department of Social Relations — 2012 – Present
• Chairperson, Department of Social Relations, East West University — 2014- 2016

• Gender, ICT and Development Issues

Awarded with the Netherlands Fellowship Program for the Master's Program 

UnderGraduate Program:

PSS 401: Population, Poverty, and Development

EHS 305: Gender and Environment

GEN 7214: Introduction to Development Studies

Graduate Program:

POP 602: Population, Gender, and Development

• Reviewer, Women's Studies International Forum, Science Direct. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/womens-studies-international-forum

Reviewer of the Journal of Information Development, Sage (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/IDV)

• Reviewer of the International Journal for Equity in Health https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/
• Reviewer of Information Technology for Development
• https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/titd20
• Reviewer of Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/srep/

Reviewer of Malaysian Journal of Media Studies, JPMM. (https://jpmm.um.edu.my)