Dr. Waheed Rana
Category: Faculty
Published on: July 11, 2024

Dr. Waheed Rana

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Phone Phone : +92-51-
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Education PhD – Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
Area of Interests ▪ Ethnographic Research
▪ Transferring knowledge through teaching
▪ Consultancy

Thirty active year in Development Planning of National Culture and Media institutions (Lok Virsa, PNCA, DOAM, PTV,PBC,APP and the ministry of IB&NH) and teaching, project management, administration and Human resource management. Adjunct Faculty, Bahria University, Visiting faculty, External Examiner for PhD/ MPhil and member Board of Studies, research Board, selection committee at QAU. Writer, researcher and broadcaster. Honorary Director, community of Evaluators – Pakistan Chapter, Regular speaker in National training institutions. Author of three books of fiction, media and Culture/anthropology. Developed first ever course of MS Applied Anthropology انتھروپولوگے

  • Assistant Professor – Bahria University Islamabad –  (July 2021 – till date)
  • Senior Lecturer  –  Bahria University Islamabad  –  (July 2019 – June 2021)
  • Lecturer –  Bahria University Islamabad – (Spring 2016- June 2019)
  • Visiting Faculty – Bahria University Islamabad  – (Spring 2015 – fall 2015)
  1. Ethnographic Research
  2. Transferring knowledge through teaching
  3. Consultancy
  • Department of Anthropology Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad(
    M.Phil and Ph.D Classes)
  • Member, Board of Studies and Selection Board, External Examiner
    for Ph.D, Department of Anthropology Quaid-i-Azam University,
    Islamabad for a three year term ending September 2010
  • Bahria University , Islamabad, M-Phil Classes
  • Allama Iqbal Open University (M.Phil and MSc Classes in the
    Department of Mass Communication)
  • Guest speaker, Secretariat Training Institute, Islamabad
  • Guest speaker national School of Public Policy( Formerly NIPA)
  • Resource Person/Guest Speaker on Pakistan (1991)
    Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Ottawa,
    Canada.)
Journals
        1. Multi-Country Study Mission on Tourism Development, Bangkok,
          Thailand. (November 1993)
        2. Governance and Public Administration in an environment of Global
          change, Lampang, Thailand. (February 1992)
        3. Issues in Television Broadcasting, OPINICON, ONTARIO, Canada
          (1990)
        4. Issues in Development Communication, EMIC, Singapore. (1990)
        5. Development Management, IDRC, India. (1989)
        6.  Seminar on Industrial Clusters in China, Bejing (2010)
          7. Scores of seminars , conferences and workshops in multiple subjects
          in Pakistan and abroad since 1986.
          PUBLICATIONS/RESEARCH
          1. Co-author: Social response to satellite Television Broadcasting in
          Pakistan., Academia publishers, lahore (2008)
          2. Co-author: “Effects of Global Satellite Broadcasting in Pakistan” – A
          study sponsored by the Higher Education Commission and launched
          by Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
          3. Cultural Transformation Through Satellite Cable TV in Pakistan,
          Global Media Journal, Volume 1,Issue 1( spring 2008)
          4. Author – Parao-Say-Pahley (Short Stories) Nigarishat, Lahore, (1996)
          5. Travelogue of Americas, Europe and Asia (under print)
          6. Co-Author Anthropology – Debates and Scope
          The first book of Anthropology in Urdu,Pisor Publishers, Islamabad
          7. Translations of International literature published by Pakistan
          Academy of Letters.
          8. Newspaper columns regularly contributed from 1980 to 1989.
          RESEARCH STUDIES CONDUCTED
          1. A Research Report on T.V. Programmes Written for IDRC, Canada.
          2. Focused Ethnographic Study of Acute Respiratory Infections – A
          research report written for UNICEF and WHO.
          3. Comparison of FES Results in two villages of Pakistan Published in
          ARI Sixth Programme Report of WHO, (Geneva). (1992-93)
          4. A conceptual Analysis of contraceptive prevalence rate in Pakistan. A
          report written for Family Planning Association of Pakistan.
          5. Primary Education Management in Pakistan – a report written for
          Ministry of Education.
          6. Non-formal Education and Skill Development for rural women in
          Punjab and Sindh – a Study conducted and Report Produced for Asian
          Development Bank, (1996–97)n.