Dr. Syed Owais
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Syed Owais

Ph.D , University of Warwick (2017) in Sociology of Development.
Research Interest:  Sociology of development; third sector organisations (TSOs); organisational analysis; sociology of (higher) education.
Telephone: +92 91 9221042
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I am working as Assistant Professor (Sociology) at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. My fieldwork experiences and research interests in analysing Third Sector Organisations (TSOs)/NGOs/CSOs’ interventions for poverty alleviation, empowerment & democratisation in Pakistan took me write doctoral thesis on “NGOs, Democratisation and Grassroots Empowerment: A Case Study of Rural Development Organisation’s Approach to Social Change in Pakistan”.  I am currently working on an HEC-funded collaborative research project on factors inhibiting beneficiation of gemstones in Pakistan: A mixed-methods value chain analysis of minning and trade in gemstone industry of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan. It is one of the very few research projects that HEC selected out of 287 applications for the research grant under the Local Challenge Fund (LCF).

PUBLICATIONS

  • Owais, S. & Sanauddin, N. (FC: Dec 2021). When patrimonialism is the only way ahead: an institutionalist account of doctoral students’ academic journeys in Pakistan. in D. L. Mulligan, N. Rayan, & P. A. Danaher (Eds.), Deconstructing Doctoral Discourses: Stories and Strategies for Success. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Rehman, Habib. Bilal, Owais, S., Rahman, Obaid., & Shen, Andy H. (FC: Sept 2021). Namak Mandi: A Pioneer Gemstone Market in Pakistan. Gems & Gemology.
  • Owais, S. (2021). “Horrified by the Experience”? Reflections on a Pakistani Organisation’s Feedback about Doctoral Research Findings. In D. L. Mulligan & P. A. Danaher (Eds.), Researchers at Risk: Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia (pp. 233-247). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Owais, S. (2020). Historical contingency and path dependence in bottom-up democratisation through NGOs: a case study from Pakistan. Development in Practice, 30(7), 953-964. DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1762543.
  • Owais, S. (2020). From absolute poverty to Participatory Poverty Assessment and back again? A critique of Poverty Scorecard through a case study from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 55(8), 1246-1265. DOI:10.1177/0021909620916903.
  • Chitrali, J. A., Sanauddin, N., & Owais, S. (2015). Gender-based discrimination in punishment at schools: A study of selected schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 7(3), 51-71. Available from: http://www.pjcriminology.com/publications/gender-based-discrimination-in-punishments-at-schools-a-study-of-selected-schools-in-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-pakistan/  
  • Chitrali, J., Sanauddin, N., & Owais, S. (2015). Violence explained? A review of theoretical explanations of violent behaviour. Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 7(4), 1-15. Available from: http://www.pjcriminology.com/publications/violence-explained-a-review-of-theoretical-explanations-of-violent-behavior/