Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Shahnaj Parveen

1. Name: SHAHNAJ PARVEEN

2. Parents’ name: Father - Late Md. Abul Hossain Sikder, Mother - Late Mrs. Hamida Khatun

3. Date of birth: 1st January 1969

4. Nationality: Bangladeshi

ProfessorDepartment of Agricultural Extension Educationand Director, Bangladesh Agricultural University Extension centre (BAUEC), BAU, Mymensingh-2202, BangladeshMobile: ++88-01715 340215Fax: ++88-(0)91-61510Email: shahnaj1969@gmail.com

6. Permanent address : Flat no. 2B, Nandan Rosewood, House 65, Road 7, Sector 4, Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh

7. Marital status : Unmarried8. Sex : Female9. Academic qualifications

: Completed Ph.D. in Agriculture (Dr. Agr.) with ‘very good’ remarks in August 24, 2005 from Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Completed Master of Science in Agricultural Extension Education in May 16, 1995 with ‘A grade’ from Bangladesh Agricultural University

Completed Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Hons.) in 1990 (result published in April 1994) with ‘1st class 5th

position’ from Bangladesh Agricultural University

10. Award Received: National Science and Technology (NST) fellowship, Ministry of Science and Technology,

Bangladesh from July 1995 to May 1996. British Council Fellowship for participatory research methodology from January to March

2001. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship for doctoral studies from 2001 to

2004. DAAD Fellowship for attending alumni workshop in Germany in 2007. DAAD Fellowship as Visiting Professor from June to August 2008 in Germany.

DAAD Fellowship as Visiting Professor from October to December 2012 in Germany.

11. Training course attended:

Teaching Methodology from 18 December 1996 to 01 January 1997, organised by GTI, BAU, Mymensingh.

Technical Report Writing and Presentation from 17 to 29 May 1997, organised by GTI, BAU, Mymensingh.

Teaching Methods Workshop from 01 to 11 July 2000 at BRAC-BCDM, Rajendrapur, Gazipur, jointly organised by UGC and DFID.

Participatory Research Methodology from January to March 2001 at the University of Reading, UK.

Project Cycle Management and TAPP Preparation from 26 to 31 December 2005, jointly organised by GTI & BAURES, BAU, Mymensingh.

Disaster Management from 24 to 28 October 2009, jointly organised by BAU & Ministry of Food and Disaster Management Programme of Bangladesh.

Gender Excellence in Bangladesh from 7 to 14 May 2012, jointly organised by University of Dhaka, Bangladesh & University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany.

Enabling and Facilitating Meaningful Learning from 13 to 15 October 2014, imparted by Education and Competence Studies, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Gender Awareness Training from 8 to 12 April 2015, jointly organised by CGIAR and North Bengal University, Siliguri, India.

12. Service experience: Engaged in teaching in the Department of Agricultural Extension Education (DAEE) of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU)

Position Duration Responsibilities Employer

Lecturer 28 May 1996 to 15 April 1999

Lecture, field activities and research Registrar, BAU

Assistant Professor

16 April 1999 to 05 June 2006

Lecture, field activities and research Registrar, BAU

Associate Professor

06 June 2006 to 15 June 2010.

Lecture, field activities, research and decision-making Registrar, BAU

Professor 16 June 2010 to date

Lecture, field activities, curriculum development, research and decision-making

Registrar, BAU

Head, DAEE16 February 2010 to 15

February 2012

Administrative and managerial, teaching, research Registrar, BAU

Director, BAUEC

02 September 2014 to date

Managerial and extension activities with farming communities

Registrar, BAU

13. Research experience:

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Worked as team member in the BAU-DFID link project on Farm Power Need Assessment (FPNA) from July 16 to 24 August 2000.

Worked as a team member in the link project between BAU-CIDA on socio-economic development issues in 2000.

Worked as a team member in the link project between BAU and University of Reading, UK on curriculum development issues in 2000.

Conducted a research project related to adoption of improved potato cultivation practices in 2000, financed by BAU.

Conducted a research project on empowerment of rural women in Bangladesh from 2001 to 2005, financed by the DAAD, Germany.

Supervised the research works of five M.S. students in the Dept. of Fisheries Management and Agricultural Extension Education, BAU 2012.

Working as a gender team member in the link project between BAU-Wageningen University, the Netherlands on gender integration in university curricula since 2013.

Working as Principal Investigator in the link project among Netherlands, Bangladesh, India and Nepal on poverty squares and gender circles: unravelling agriculture gaps, challenges and opportunities in the Eastern Gangetic Basin since 2014.

14. Participation in Scientific forums:

Attended a conference on Sustainable Food Security for All by 2020, held in Bonn, Germany, 4-6 September, 2001.

Delivered a seminar as guest speaker on Management of Homestead Environment by the Rural Women in Bangladesh at the Technical University of München, Germany, 11 December 2001.

Attended a conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, held in Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany, 8-10 October 2003.

Presented a paper on Perception of Rural Women on Gender Awareness in Bangladesh in the XXth IFHE Congress on Cooperation and Interdependence-Fostering Leadership in Home Economics for Healthy Communities, held in Kyoto, Japan, 1-7 August 2004.

Presented a paper on Empowerment of Rural Women in Bangladesh: A Household level Analysis in the Conference on Rural Poverty Reduction through Research for Development and Transformation, held in Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany, 5-7 October 2004. Available at http://www.tropentag.de/2004/abstracts/full/382.pdf

Attended a conference on Gender Perspectives in the 21st Century, held in Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, 8-10 September 2005.

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Presented a paper as guest speaker on How Empowered are the Rural Women? An Empirical Analysis from Bangladesh in the 18th International Nutrition Congress held in ICC Durban, South Africa, 19-23 September 2005.

Attended an alumni meeting on Issues and Challenges in Rural Development, held in Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany, 3-15 June 2007.

Attended a conference on Land Privatization Strategies and Rural Household Income in the Commonwealth of Independent States, held in Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany, 14 June 2008.

Presented a paper on Analysing the Economic Empowerment of Women in Farm Households: Lessons from Rural Bangladesh in the 8th international conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR), held in Barcelona, Spain, 9-12 July 2008. Available at http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.istr.org/resource/resmgr/abstracts_-_barcelona4/parveen.shahnaj.pdf

Presented a paper on Measuring Farm Women’s Access to Productive Resources: towards leading to Empowerment in the XXIth IFHE Congress on Home Economics: Reflecting the Past, Creating the Future, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, 26-31 July 2008. Available athttp://p30678.typo3server.info/fileadmin/user_upload/News___Downloads/IFHE_Congress_new_Programme_Book.pdf

Presented a paper as an expert on professional short course: Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development, Interdisciplinary Centre for Food Security (ICF), Bangladesh Agricultural University, held in BARC, Dhaka, 11 August 2014.

Attended a workshop on Empower Women to achieve Food and Nutrition Security, held in ERD, Ministry of Finance and FAO, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 11 March 2015.

15. Research publications:

1) Parveen, S.; A. Halim and M.A.M. Miah (1997) Awareness of Farm Women on Environmental Degradation due to Use of Selected Modern Agricultural Technologies. Bangladesh Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 10, No. (1 & 2), pp. 35-41. ISSN 1013-0306

2) Parveen, S.; A. Halim and M.A.M. Miah (1998) Knowledge of Farm Women on the Use of Selected Modern Technologies for Homestead Farming. Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 133-137. ISSN 0379-4296

3) Islam, M.R.; S. Parveen and M.A. Hossain (2001) Farmers’ Preferences of Mass Contact Media as Agricultural Information Sources. Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education, Vol. 13, No. (1&2), pp. 29-35. ISSN 1011-3916

4) Halim, A. and S. Parveen (2003) Adoption of Improved Cultivation Practices by the Potato Growers of Bangladesh. Journal of Agricultural Extension Research, Vol. 7, No. 14, pp. 33-50.

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5) Parveen, S. (2005) Empowerment of Rural Women in Bangladesh: A Household Level Analysis. Germany: Margraf Publishers GmbH. ISBN 3-8236-1469-X, ISSN 1616-9808

6) Parveen, S. (2006) Rural Women’s Participation in Household Decision-Making. Progressive Agriculture, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 261-270. ISSN 1017-8139

7) Parveen, S. (2007) Participation of Farm Women in Agricultural Decision-making. Bangladesh Journal of Progressive Science and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 141-144. ISSN 1609-5260X

8) Parveen, S. (2007) Coping Mechanisms of Women against Risks in Farm Households: Reflections from Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Progressive Science and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 191-196. ISSN 1609-5260X

9) Parveen, S. (2007) Gender Awareness of Rural Women in Bangladesh. Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 253-269. ISSN 1539-8706. Available at http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&context=jiws

10) Parveen, S. (2007) Domestic Violence against Farm Women in Bangladesh: Causes and Consequences. Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 103-117. ISSN 1024-1256. Available at http://web.b.ebscohost.com/abstract?

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11) Parveen, S. (2007) Rural Women’s Capacity to Cope with Household Shocks: The Bangladesh Experience, pp. 263-273. In: S. Bauer and L.B. Karki (eds) Issues and Challenges in Rural Development, Vol. 2. Germany: Margraf Publishers GmbH. ISBN 978-3-8236-1503-3, ISSN 1616-9808

12) Parveen, S. (2007) Are the Rural Women Marginalized in Asset Ownership? Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh, pp. 136-149. In: D. Dey and A.K. Pain (eds) Women Empowerment-New Dimensions and Experiences. India: The Icfai University Press. ISBN 81-314-0715-2

13) Parveen, S. (2007) An Empirical Analysis of Rural Women’s Empowerment: The Bangladesh Context, pp. 188-203. In: S.K. Multani (ed.) Empowerment of Women - Perspectives and Experiences. India: The Icfai University Press. ISBN 81-314-0791-9

14) Parveen, S. (2008) Rural Women’s Access to Productive Resources in Bangladesh: A Pillar for Promoting Empowerment. International Journal of Rural Studies (IJRS), Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 14-18. ISSN 1023-2001. Available at

http://www.vri-online.org.uk/ijrs/April2008/Access%20of%20rural%20women%20to%20productive%20resources%20in%20Bangladesh.pdf

15) Parveen, S. and Leonhaeuser, I.-U. (2008) Factors Affecting the Extent of Economic Empowerment of Women in Farm Households: Experiences from Rural Bangladesh. International Journal of Human Ecology, 9 (December): 117-126. ISSN 1609-5260X.

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available athttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/263438344_Factors_Affecting_the_Extent_of_Economic_Empowerment_of_Women_in_Farm_Households_Experiences_from_Rural_Bangladesh

16) Parveen, S. and Leonhaeuser, I-U (2009) Promoting Household Food Security through Empowering Rural Women in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Progressive Science and Technology, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 29-30. ISSN 1609-5260X

17) Parveen, S. and Hosen, M.S. (2009) Farmers’ Awareness of Eco-friendly Practices for Rice Production in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Progressive Science and Technology, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 31-36. ISSN 1609-5260X

18) Parveen, S. and Chaudhury, M.S.R. (2009) Micro-credit Intervention and its Effects on Empowerment of Rural Women: The BRAC Experience. Bangladesh Research Publications Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 641-647. ISSN 1998-2003. Available at http://www.bdresearchpublications.com/admin/journal/upload/08080/08080.pdf

19) Parveen, S. (2009) Coping with Risks of Flood in 2008: The Experience of Farm Households of Sirajgonj District, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Progressive Science and Technology, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 221-224. ISSN 1609-5260X

20) Parveen, S. (2009) An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Division of Labour in Farm Households: Evidence from Bangladesh. Bangladesh Research Publications Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 693-699. ISSN 1998-2003. Available at http://www.bdresearchpublications.com/admin/journal/upload/08087/08087.pdf

21) Sikder, M. S. I; M. Akteruzzaman, S. Parveen and M. Shamsudin (2009) Economics of Community Dairy Farming in Satkhira District. Bangladesh Journal of Animal Science, Vol. 38, No. 1 and 2, pp. 164-169. ISSN 0003-3588

22) Parveen, S. (2010) Rice Farmers’ Knowledge about the Effects of Pesticides on Environmental Pollution in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Research Publications Journal, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 1214-1227. ISSN 1998-2003. Available athttp://www.bdresearch.org/home/attachments/article/nArt/Rice_Farmers_Knowledge_about_effect.pdf

23) Akter, M.S.; S. Parveen and M.A. Islam (2011) Drought Shocks of Farm Households. Bangladesh Journal of Extension Education, Vol. 23, No. (1&2), pp. 37-44. ISSN 1011-3916

24) Kamruzzaman, M.; S. Parveen and A.C. Das (2015) Livelihood Improvement of Tea Garden Workers: A Scenario of Marginalized Women Group in Bangladesh. Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics and Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. XX-XX. ISSN 2320-7027. Available at sciencedomain.org/download/OTY2N0BAcGY

16. Consultant job

i. Worked at Quantum Consumer Solutions Limited as Research Consultant from 30 April 2014 to April 2015.

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17. Country visited: UK, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Singapore and India.

18. Referees:

ii. Prof. Dr. Deepa Joshi, Water Resource Management, Droevendaalsestee 3, 6708 PB, Wageningen University, the Netherlands Tel. 0317 483409 0, E-mail: deepa.joshi@wur.nl

iii. Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bauer, Department of Project and Regional Planning, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Tel.: ++49-0641-9937310, Fax.: ++49-0641-9937319, E-mail: Siegfried.Bauer@uni-giessen.de, www.uni-giessen.de/Regionalplan

19. Research Interests: Gender development including ethnic groups and their vulnerability with climate change, disaster, poverty, food and nutrition insecurity, sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods, mixed method research, impact assessment, value chain analysis and curricula development.

Dr. Shahnaj Parveen

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