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Syeda Rifa Anjum

Senior Lecturer

I hold an MS- degree in English Linguistics. A dedicated ESL-Instructor with over 10-years of teaching experience at various leading Educational Institutes & Universities of Pakistan including LUMHS Jamshoro, NED University , IQRA University and Bahria University Karachi.

About

As an experienced and committed Language Educator of English Language at IQRA University, I bring over a decade of invaluable experience in academia to our institution. My instructional portfolio encompasses a diverse range of courses, including Business and Managerial Communication, Public Speaking, World Literature, Technical English, Research Writing, and academic and professional writing.

In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I serve as the Cluster Head of the English Department, providing support and solutions to enhance the learning experience. It includes active participation in assessing and evaluating the process, supporting the HR department during job interviews and hiring processes across various disciplines, guiding and engaging faculty members in various tasks.

I am also an active member of the Language Teaching Community entitled Regional English Language Office (RELO Community) to build stronger links between Pakistan and the U.S. through programming that focuses on improving the English language skills of the learners.

With nearly a decade of experience in teaching and learning language across diverse contexts and learner levels, I am committed to fostering an enriching educational experience for students.

Area of Expertise

My research interests includes domains such as Teaching & Learning Language, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Instruction, TESOL Methodologies, Action Research, Communication Competence, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Sociolinguistics. However, my interests are not limited to these areas, and I remain open to exploring new avenues of research.

Publications & Research Work

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Management at Iqra University, Karachi. He holds more than 17 years of full-time university teaching, research, mentorship, and graduate thesis supervision experience. Additionally, he has been serving as the Cluster Head (Management) since January 2020 at the Main Campus. He is currently a member of the advisory and review boards of 18 national and international scholarly journals. 

He has presented various research ideas at international conferences abroad and has published over 25 research papers in national and international journals with 700+ Google citations. He has also authored a monograph on Leadership and Strategy published in Germany. He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and five Ph.D. candidates are going to complete their doctoral thesis under his sole supervision. In addition to supervising several industrial projects, 32 MPhil and hundreds of MBA students have successfully passed their research thesis in the Management discipline under his sole supervision. His research interests include the dark side of leadership, workplace mistreatment, multilevel modeling, and creative performance in higher education. He completed a ten-day comprehensive Training of Trainers conducted by Sindh HEC in May 2023.

Dr. Shahnawaz earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from an AACSB and AMBA-accredited business school of Malaysia in 2021. Earlier, he received his MPhil from Iqra University, a ‘triple-crown’ (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS-accredited) MBA from Newcastle University (UK), Postgraduate Diploma from Stratford College London (UK), and B.Sc. (Honours) with Distinction from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has secured seven consecutive distinctions in his academic career and has clinched First Class First Position at Sindh Board of Technical Education. He has been associated with Iqra University as a permanent faculty member in the Department of Business Administration since August 2008. His main hobbies include horse-riding, playing scrabble, cooking, bird-farming, and long driving.

DOI:10.17051/ilkonline.2021.03.28

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