Center of Excellence in Higher Education
The First Private University in Bangladesh

Parboti Roy

Full Time Faculty
Lecturer (On Leave)

M.A. in Women’s Studies, School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, Australia  
 
 

General Information -
Office Hour:
Room: NAC 914
Telephone: +880-2-55668200 Ext:
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Email: parboti.roy@northsouth.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Miss Parboti Roy is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, teaches courses on introduction to sociology, contemporary issues in gender relationships, gender, and development. She worked in several development organizations prior to initiate her career at the North South University, particularly in the area of knowledge management, research and advocacy on gender mainstreaming at the organizational level,  advocacy program on gender, masculinities, gender-based violence, and development. She was awarded Australian Development Scholarship to accomplish her second Master degree in Women's Studies, Flinders University, Australia. She completed her first Master and Bachelor degree in the Department of Women and Gender Studies, Dhaka University.  Her research interest focuses on indigenous issues and women,  gender-based violence,  human rights and marginalized population, women in economic development, masculinities, gender, and development. 

Roy, Parboti (2018), ‘Traditional economic activities of indigenous women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts: exploring indigenous women’s role in sustaining traditional economic activities, Handbook of Research on Women's Issues and Rights in the Developing World, in N. Mahtab, T. Haque, I. Khan, Md. M Islam and IB.Wahid (eds.), IGI Global, The USA.

Roy, Parboti (2015) Annual Situation Report on Indigenous Women, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Indigenous Women’s Network and Manusher Jonno Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Roy, Parboti, Promila, Mynthein (2014), ‘Quest for Security, Equality, Equity and Integration: Locus of Indigenous Women in Bangladesh’ in Survival Under Threat: Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh, M. S. Chowdhury (ed.), Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, Thailand.

 

Conference paper:

 Roy, Parboti, ‘Gender-based violence in cyberspace: exploring violence against indigenous women in online social networking media in Bangladesh’. Paper presented at the International Conference on Gender Mainstreaming in Politics, Administration and Development in South Asia and Beyond, North South University, Dhaka (18-19 November 2017)

Roy, Parboti, ‘Violence against indigenous women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts: women’s situation in the inter and intra-community prospect’. Paper presented at the 15th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong (June 2017).

 Roy, Parboti, ‘Transformation or sustainability: traditional economic activities of indigenous women in the mainstream context of development in Bangladesh’ paper presented at the International Conference on Gender, Diversity, and Development, Dhaka, Bangladesh. (March 2015).

 

  • Australian Development Award 2012.
  • Golden Key Award 2013 for excellent academic performance at Flinders University Golden Key Chapter.
  • Awarded as an Independent  Research Fellow funded by Save the Children Sweden and the South Asian Network to Address Masculinities’ (SANAM) Fellowship Program on ‘Understanding Masculinities: Culture, Politics & Social Change’ in 2011 in an eight months individual research project titled as ‘Ethnic Conflict and Masculinities: A Study on the Impact of Conflict on Indigenous Men in Chittagong Hill Tracts Bangladesh’. The aim of the study was to explore how the construction of masculinities, ethnic conflict, and nationalist project intersects in the context of Chittagong Hill Tracts(CHT). The study was based on in-depth interviews and FGDs with former- indigenous combatants to dig out their current situation in the nationalist project of CHT.

Master of Arts in Women's Studies 
Flinders University, Australia.

Master of Social Science in Women and Gender Studies  
University of Dhaka

Bachelor of Social Science in Women and Gender Studies 
University of Dhaka

Norrth South University (May 2015- Present)
Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Sociology
Bashundhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 201: Contemporary Issues in Gender Relationships
WMS 201: Gender and Develpment

  • Member, Australia Alumni Association Bangladesh
  • Member, Golden key International Honour Society Flinders University Chapter
  • Member, Flinders University Alumni Association
  • Member, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Dhaka Unversity Alumni Association
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Violence against Indigenous women and girls
  • Gender, human rights, and ethnic minority people
  • Women in economic development
  • Gender, masculinities, and development