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.