Department of Sociology
Faculty
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social SciencesAddress
A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
- Master of Social Sciences (MSS) in Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) in Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Employment Record
- July 07, 2021 - Present
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, East West University, Bangladesh
- May 02, 2019 – July 06, 2021
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, East West University, Bangladesh
- September 2020- Present
Moderator, Sociology Club, East West University, Bangladesh
Research Experience
- February 2020- January 2021
Research Associate to Dr. Anisur Rahman Khan, Assistant Professor, East West University, Bangladesh
Research Project: Men, Masculinity, and Suicide in Jhenaidah District (funded by East West University Centre for Research and Training EWUCRT)
- September 2019-October 2019
Research Assistant to Dr. Ali Riaz, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Illinois State University, United States of America
Research Project: Examining the Nature and Scope of Social Cohesion in Bangladesh
- January 2018- December 2019
Research Assistant to Dr. Monirul I. Khan, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research Project: Study to analyze the role of different authorities in industrial dispute settlement and developing comprehensive recommendations for RMG and the Water Transport Sector
- Environmental Justice
- Sociology of Knowledge and Expertise
- Technoscience / Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Global Political Ecology
- Sustainability
Shimul, S.M.A.K. (2023, June 25-July 1). How the Ready-Made Garment Workers of Bangladesh Mobilise Protest Movements at the Verge of Union Extinction? XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia. https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/142333
Hussain, R. & Shimul, S. M. A. K. (2021, January 21-22) Women and the Transition across State Boundaries: The Warps and Woofs of National Labor Exporting Policies of Bangladesh and the Reality.Towards Reflexivity in Migration Studies: Knowledge Production in Times of Contested Politics and Post-Colonial Dynamics, Midterm Conference of ESA's Research Network 35 Sociology of Migration., Germany.
Shimul, S.M.A.K. (2020, December 25-26) Mobilization Awareness of the Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh for Establishing their Rights: Issues of Enthusiasm, Fear and Indignation. 2nd International Congress on Women and Politics in a Global World, İstanbul Ayvansaray University (İstanbul Ayvansaray Üniversitesi), Istanbul, Turkey.
Shimul, S. M. A. K., (2020, February 27-29) The Industrial Relation and Its Challenges in the Emerging Capitalist Society: A Case of the RMG sector in Bangladesh. 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on the Social and Life Sciences, East West University, Bangladesh.
Khan A. R., Shimul, S. M. A. K. & Uddin, H. (2020, February 5-8) Demographic Risk Factors and Motives of Male Suicide in Bangladesh, 2018-2019. 7th International Conference on Public Administration and Development, Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Shimul, S. M. A. K. (2019, December 18-19) Unique Strategies of Unionization of the Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Legal or Extralegal. INSEARCH-2019: 6th International Integrative Research Conference on Governance in Society, Business and Environment, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD), Bangladesh.
Rahman Khan, A., & Shimul, S. A. K. (2024). Men’s Suicide in Bangladesh: Impressions From the Socio-Ecological System Theory. OMEGA-Journal of death and dying, 00302228241257135.
Khan A. R., Shimul, S. M. A. K., Ratele K. (2023). Psychological Perspective of Suicidal Behaviour in South Africa. Journal of Suicide Prevention, 5 (1), 3-16. http://isssp.ir/article-1-51-en.html
Hussain, R. & Shimul, S. M. A. K. (2023). Women migrant workers and their transition across state boundaries: Labour exporting policies of Bangladesh and the reality. (IPS Working Paper Series No.3). Hong Kong: Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University. doi: 10.14793/ipswp_03
Khan, A. R., Uddin, H., Shimul, S. M. A. K. and Billah, M. (2022). Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis and suicide in Bangladesh: Some explanations through Durkheim’s Sociology of Suicide. Journal of Community Positive Practices, (3), pp. 3-17. doi:10.35782/JCPP.2022.3.01.
Khan, A. R., Shimul, S. M. A. K., & Arendse, N. (2021). Suicidal behaviour and the coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic: Insights from Durkheim’s sociology of suicide. International social science journal, 71(S1), 7-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12269
Khan, A. R., Shimul, S. M. A. K., & Uddin, H. (2021). Demographic Risk Factors and Motives of Male Suicide in Bangladesh. Acta Counseling and Humanities, 2(1), 66–80.
Khan, A. R., & Shimul, S. M. A. K. (2020). Methodological Issues in Suicide Research in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Public Administration, 93–96. https://doi.org/10.36609/bjpa.v28i2.109
Khan, M. I., Shimul, S.M.A.K., (2020), Policy Brief on Industrial Dispute Settlement in the RMG and Inland Water Transport (IWT) Sectors of Bangladesh: Present Situation and Recommendations for Comprehensive Approach
2017 Master's in Social Science Research Grants, RDF- Resource Development Foundation
SOC106 Historical Sociology
SOC302 Social Structure of Bangladesh
SOC317 Sociology of Science and Technology
SOC319 Early Social Thought
July 2022- 2024 Member, Program Self-Assessment Committee (PSAC), Department of Sociology, East West University
