Dr Fatema Jahan

Fatema Jahan is a Lecturer in Public Administration at the School of Education and Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from University College London and an MSc in Gender, Development, and Globalisation from the London School of Economics. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including Gender and Development, contributing critical insights into feminist theory, transnational identities, and gendered labour markets. Her current research project explores the long-term gendered impacts of COVID-19 on Bangladeshi immigrant women in London, focusing on their experiences in both paid and unpaid labour. Her scholarship extends across the fields of Gender Studies, Human Geography and Social Policy, with a strong focus on comparative politics, globalisation, international political economy and intersectional inequalities. Before joining UWS, she served as an Affiliate Academic at the Migration Research Unit at UCL and as an Associate Professor at the University of Dhaka.