Dr Imam brings more than two decades of experience in mixed methods international social science practice, research, and teaching around the world, focusing on East and West Africa, South Asia, USA, and Central Asia. Her interests involve research, development, and instruction on advanced issues of human rights, international conventions on human, civil, and political rights, and against torture; police service, judicial and quasi-judicial institutions, and persecution; grievance redressal arrangements; gender analysis, gender equality, gender-based violence, forced marriages, and sexual abuse; child abuse, child marriages, and violence against children; climate-related issues; and more. She has written books and scholarly articles about public administration, employing quantitative data and qualitative streams of historical changes in socioeconomic, judicial, political, and administrative institutions.
Her work employs innovative research methodologies, focusing on getting to the crux of socio-cultural and institutional situations to deliver efficient solutions that take into account complex dynamics involving human rights, child rights, gender equality, sustainability, and other such standards, in diverse socio-political contexts.
Caste discrimination or persecution, Climate-related issues, Disability, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Ex-combatant reintegration, Forced marriage, Gang-related violence/non-state actors, Gender-based violence/domestic violence, Healthcare access/health systems capacity, Land tenure disputes, LGBTQ, Likelihood of destitution or homelessness, Military/police service, Political persecution, Prison conditions, Religious discrimination or persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Sexual abuse/assault, Specialized medical services, Sufficiency of protection, Torture, Tribal discrimination or persecution, Violence against children/child abuse
I worked on issues of IDPs and refugees while working for the UN in Nigeria in relation to Women, Peace, and Security. I heard first hand from IDP women and the GBV they faced. I supported NGOs, media, MDAs, and other implementation partners in designing, planning, monitoring and evaluating, and reporting on their programs, most of which were related to advocacy. I also dealt with issues of IDPs, Afghan refugees, and gypsies in Pakistan, while serving as Assistant Commissioner & Sub-Divisional Magistrate and as Project Director Children's Library Complex, where I worked with partner organizations providing support to IDP and gypsy children, and trying to preserve their respective cultures, especially in the aftermath of Army Public School terrorist attack 2014, while I was serving as Project Director Children's Library Complex.