Imaan Azeem Uqaili

Imaan Azeem Uqaili

Class of 2023
BSc (Honors) Social Development & Policy

Aspiration Statement

I aspire to work in any capacity where I can play a significant role in bettering people's lives.

Core Skills

  • Academic Writing
  • Analysis
  • Critical Thinking
  • Empathy-led Development
  • Fieldwork
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Marketing
  • Project Development and Management
  • Quantitative and Qualitative Research

Experience

Leadership / Meta-curricular

  • Serve Club
  • Runway Radio
  • Menstrual Health and Hygiene Projects

Internship / Volunteer Work

  • Policy and Research Intern, UNDP (February 2022 – April 2023)

Publications / Creative Projects

  • Language and Identity in a Postcolonial Context: An ethnographic study amongst students in Karachi (Capstone). Low enrolment rates among females in education (Paper written for Big Data and The Art of Critical Thinking)
  • Organised and Managed a Transnational Social Intervention Project under Akhuwat on Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
  • Capstone Abstract accepted for Presentation at University of Buffalo, New York

Final Year Project

Project Title

Language and Identity in a Postcolonial Context: An Ethnographic Study Amongst Students in Karachi

Description

In my final year project, I studied language as a social phenomenon and its role in connecting or disconnecting people with regard to identity formation in public (outside home spaces such as university) and private (home) spheres.