Faculty Profile

Dr. Arslan Waheed

Assistant Professor and Program Director, Graduate Programs SSLA

Department: Social Sciences

Specialization:Sociology

Onboard Status: Available

Email: awaheed@iba.edu.pk


Work Experience

  • Assistant Professor and Program Director Graduate Programs SSLA at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Oct-2023 to PRESENT)
  • Assistant Professor at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Jul-2023 to Oct-2023)
  • Assistant Professor at National University of Science & Technology (Sep-2021 to Jul-2023)
  • Visiting Scholar at University of Brasilia, Brazil (Jul-2018 to Nov-2018)
  • Junior Researcher at Center for Development Research (ZEF) (Oct-2017 to Sep-2021)
  • Lecturer at National University of Science & Technology (Feb-2016 to Jun-2017)
  • Research Associate at People Empowering and Development Alternatives (Nov-2015 to Feb-2016)
  • Research Assistant at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK. (Oct-2014 to Dec-2014)
  • Research Fellow at Hanns-Seidel Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan (Sep-2014 to Sep-2015)

Academic Qualification

  • PhD (Sociology), - 2021
  • MPhil (Social Sciences / Pakistan Studies), Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad - 2015
  • BA (Hons) (Political Science), Govt. College University Lahore - 2011

Research Interests

  • Sociology

Courses Taught

  • ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT
  • POLICY ANALYSIS: THEORY & PRACTICE
  • URBAN SOCIOLOGY

Research Output

Journal Publication(s)

  • Arfa Saleem Shahab, Dr. Arslan Waheed, Dr. Arslan Waheed ,"Power and the Politics of Development: Peripheral Spaces and the Case of Dadhocha Dam in Pakistan. Critical Policy Studies",Critical Policy Studies,Sep 21, 2025
  • Dr. Arslan Waheed, Dr. Arslan Waheed ,"From developmentalism to developmentality: How development constructs its geographies of control and contempt",Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes,Feb 09, 2025
  • Abdul Qadar, Dr. Arslan Waheed, Dr. Arslan Waheed ,"Traditional Hierarchies of Zamindars and Kammis in Pakistani Punjab: Contemporary Contests Through Vartan Bhanji",South Asia Research,May 12, 2023
  • Abdul Qadar, Dr. Arslan Waheed, Yasir Mehmood, Dr. Arslan Waheed ,"Utopia of Social Distancing and Dystopia of Living in Slums: Urban Poor’s Perspectives from the Global South and the Theory of Planned Behavior",Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability,Jul 22, 2022
  • Abdul Qadar, Dr. Arslan Waheed, Dr. Arslan Waheed ,"From Sainthood to Saintly Kinship: How Claiming Saintly Kinship is Structuring the Social and Patronage Relationships in Rural Punjab Pakistan",Journal of Asian and African Studies,May 12, 2022
  • Abdul Qadar, Yasir Mehmood, Dr. Arslan Waheed, Dr. Arslan Waheed ,"Water Contamination, Households’ Risk Perceptions, and Averting Behavior: Evidence from the Nullah Lai, Rawalpindi, Pakistan",Journal of Asian and African Studies,Feb 07, 2022
  • Dr. Arslan Waheed, Dr. Arslan Waheed ,"‘I will obey whatever orders will be given to me…’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Affidavit from a Slum Upgradation and Rehabilitation Project in Islamabad, Pakistan",Social Sciences,May 23, 2021
  • Dr. Arslan Waheed, Dr. Arslan Waheed ,"Pir-Murid Relationship: Stereotypes and Practitioner’s Perspectives",The Historian,Dec 01, 2019

Case(s)

    Book(s)

    • Dr. Arslan Waheed, Andrea Fleschenberg, Sarah Holz, Dr. Arslan Waheed ," ",Pakistan at Seventy-Five: Identity, Governance and Conflict-Resolution in a Post-Colonial Nation-State.,Feb 01, 2023

    Conference(s)

      Other(s)


        Projects

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