Jisan is a development economist with a primary interest in the fields of inequality, gender relations, social norms, domestic violence, abuse, and wellbeing. Her PhD thesis focuses on women’s empowerment through access to resources such as education and employment opportunities in Bangladesh. It employs multiple theories, including ‘agency theory’ and ‘inter-household bargaining theory,’ to explain how resources (both financial and non-financial) influence the process of women’s empowerment in a patriarchal socio-economic context. The thesis also integrates gender theories with economic theories of empowerment and bargaining to explain how the process of women’s empowerment alters household power and gender relations within the domains of marriage.
Jisan has three years of working experience in the development sector of Bangladesh, where she collaborated on various projects with multilateral stakeholders and donor agencies such as DFID, IFAD, and the World Bank. Before joining CCJP as a research fellow, she worked in the UK higher education sector for more than three years at various institutions, including the University of Liverpool, the University of Reading, and the University of the West of England, Bristol.