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Here are some latest highlights from my professional life
My dissertation graduation
I was blessed to be able to attend the graduation ceremony in Dubai, although my degree was conferred in Australia.
Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at INAAR Conference
Research Paper presented at conference
Ethical issues with offshore manufacturing plants in the ready-made garment industry is a regular affair, particularly for factories located in lesser developed nations. Despite efforts by non-government agencies around the globe pressurizing both governments and multinational corporations to adopt ethical practices, disastrous accidents and loss of lives continue to haunt the industry. What is the cost of fashion? Consumers wake up!
33rd International Business Research Conference at Flora Grand Dubai
Successful Keynote at IEEE Conference
Successful Robotics and Mathalon competitions 2017
Selected to represent UOW at the 5th Women in Higher Education Leadership Summit at Melbourne, Australia 2015
Curated the first TEDxUOWD at UOWD
Successfully organized, invited and hosted six renowned, international speakers to a stduents-only audience.
Welcome Speech at the COP In Dubai Climate Change Event
Organized at university of Wollongong in Dubai. Seen here with Green Sheikh HE Abdul Aziz bin Alu Al Nuaimi, Climate Expert Robert Bradley and Youth NGO Synergy
Teaching Excellence Award 2014 - UOWD
Zeenath Khan received the UOWD Teaching Excellence Award 2014 this October out of 13 nominations, highest number in all the years since the inauguration of the Award with no Highly Commended or Commended awardees.
Case Study published
The staggering loss of lives that resulted from the collapse of a building complex housing five export-quality garment factories in Bangladesh bring to light the multi-national apparel brands' failure in terms of ethical trading, the abuse of garment workers as sources of cheap labour and income and how ethical consumerism can in fact make a difference in changing consumers' attitude towards ethical manufacturing, thus pressurizing brands to act more ethically when outsourcing manufacturing of garments by Zeenath Reza Khan and Gwendolyn Rodrigues
Published in The Case Centre Database
Won the bid to host Plagiarism Across Europe and Beyond conference in 2020 in Dubai!
As part of UOWD delegation we won the general election vote to host the conference in 2020 in Dubai in collaboration with Dubai Tourism and Turnitin!
Invited to be reviewer for the upcoming Online Collaborative Module on Academic Integrity by epigeum - Oxford Univesity Press
As part of the review process, I was invited to Oxford Unicersity to attend a worlshop with other reviewers and authors in 2018
Became "Digital Leader 2019"
Khaleej Times and MIT Slona Review names me Digital Leader (Education) in 2019 for my contributions to innovative teaching through technology
Invited Speaker
Smart Education Summit 2019
Keynote speaker, First Symposium on academic integrity in Bangladesh
Dubai Tourism Al Safeer Award