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FATIMA DURRANI
Aspiration Statement
An aspiring policy maker, I am deeply passionate about understanding and solving the problems surrounding the Pakistani education and public health system, and am skilled in research and academic writing. I want to pursue my postgraduate studies in the field of Education and Public Health.
Core Skills
- Research
- Academic and Creative Writing
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Policy Design and Design Thinking
- Program Planning
Academic Awards / Achievements
- High Academic Leap Scholarship 2017
- Won 2nd position along with my team (Rakhwalay) in the 2018 SIMA + World Merit Challenge
- Won the 2nd Position at GRID All Karachi Chess & Scrabble Competition 2018, JSM
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- World Merit - Member
- H-FEM, Habib University - Vice President
- Fundamentals of Digital Marketing - Google Digital Garage
- Essentials of Public Health Research - Certification by CITI Program
- Protecting Human Research Participants - Certification by The National Institutes of Health
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Legal Aid Society - Senior Research & Communications Analyst
- The Indus Hospital - Research Associate
- Abtach Ltd. - Creative Manager
- Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) - Program Intern
- Momentum Tech Conference 2019 - Content Associate
- Habib University - Teaching Assistant - Momentum Tech Conference 2019
- NOWPDP - External Engagement department - Intern
- Entrepreneurship and Community Development Institute (ECDI) - Research Assistant
- Collective for Social Sciences and Research - Intern
Publications / Creative Projects
- Composed two poems titled ‘The Researcher’ and ‘My New Name’ which were published in Arzu Anthology Volume 2 in March 2019 and launched at Karachi Literature Festival.
- Speaker in the talk titled ‘Sacred Geographies as a Multidisciplinary Endeavour’ with Dr. Jo-Ann Gross as a respondent at Conference-Critical Knowledge: Pioneering Comparative Liberal Studies at Habib University.
Final Year Project
Project Title
No Roofs Left Behind
Description
A large percentage of Pakistani millennials do not have the funding or resources to purchase houses for themselves. This is a brutally honest reality that hounds the lives of most of my peers, friends, and other people of my age. With pricing hikes in the housing industry shooting beyond average levels of extremity, it is truly mindboggling how recent graduates and young professionals are expected to be able to afford their own abodes with average starting salaries not extending beyond Rs. 50,000. This paper sought to study the ways in which laws pertaining to land ownership in Pakistan are premised upon early capitalistic developments in the west during the industrial era. Trying to unravel what the future holds by understanding the past and the present, this essay examines the economic, political, and social conditions that have created such immense financial difficulties for a population fast aged beyond their young years.
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