Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad

Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad is currently working at University of Dhaka as a lecturer and a freelance consultant in the field of Gender and Development. Formerly, he has worked with NETZ Partnership for Development and Justice as a young researcher, where his primary job responsibility was to conduct a study on the impact of development interventions on women’s position in gender power relations; as a consultant with OXFAM Bangladesh, where he analysed gender consciousness and sustainability of one of their major projects in Bangladesh using qualitative analysis. Before that as a research fellow of ‘USAID small research grants for master’s students and young teachers 2010’, he had analysed the gendered implications of one of the main development projects of USAID/Bangladesh focused on sustainable natural disaster mitigation. He has also gained first-hand field experience regarding international development by joining the USAID outreach program and participating in a students’ exchange program at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand on gender and development.

Publications

Picking the People up From Poverty: Urban Labour Market Deregulation vs. Encouraging the Development of Micro-Enterprises
Picking the People up From Poverty: Urban Labour Market Deregulation vs. Encouraging the Development of Micro-Enterprises
Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad. © 2019. 10 pages.
Being a multidimensional phenomenon, it is hard to confine poverty within any definitive parameters and even harder to send the word poverty back to dictionary. Poverty...
Migration Affecting Masculinities: The Consequences of Migration on the Construction of Masculinities of Migrant Bangladeshi Men Living in the United Kingdom
Migration Affecting Masculinities: The Consequences of Migration on the Construction of Masculinities of Migrant Bangladeshi Men Living in the United Kingdom
Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad. © 2017. 19 pages.
This chapter looks into the causes of behavioral changes among migrant Bangladeshi men after migration; especially changes in roles that they always considered are closely...
Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Gender Identity, Representation, and Equality
Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Gender Identity, Representation, and Equality
Nazmunnessa Mahtab, Sara Parker, Farah Kabir, Tania Haque, Aditi Sabur, Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad. © 2016. 323 pages.
Today, gender and gender identity is at the forefront of discussion as the plight of women around the world and issues of gender equality and human rights have become an...
Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis
Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis
Nazmunnessa Mahtab, Sara Parker, Farah Kabir, Tania Haque, Aditi Sabur, Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad. © 2016. 286 pages.
Misconceptions regarding gender identity and issues of inequality that women around the world face have become a predominant concern for not only the citizens impacted, but...
Migration Affecting Masculinities: The Consequences of Migration on the Construction of Masculinities of Migrant Bangladeshi Men Living in the United Kingdom
Migration Affecting Masculinities: The Consequences of Migration on the Construction of Masculinities of Migrant Bangladeshi Men Living in the United Kingdom
Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad. © 2016. 24 pages.
This chapter looks into the causes of behavioral changes among migrant Bangladeshi men after migration; especially changes in roles that they always considered are closely...