School of Education - Beaconhouse National University (BNU)

Prof. Dr. Tariq Rahman got his first doctorate in English literature from the University of Sheffield in 1985. Subsequently he got interested in language politics in Pakistan and took the degree of linguistics from the University of Strathclyde in 1989. After this he wrote the books which have made him an authority on the linguistic history of the Muslims of South Asia namely Language and Politics in Pakistan (1996); Language, Ideology and Power: language-learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India (2002) and From Hindi to Urdu: a Social and Political History (2011). Besides these and other books he has published about a 100 articles in scholarly journals contributed entries to encyclopedias and chapters to edited books. On examination of his published work the University of Sheffield conferred a higher doctorate (D.Litt) on him in 2014. He was the first Pakistani to be honoured by one of Germany’s highest awards for academic research called the Humboldt Research Award. The National Institute of Pakistan Studies at The Quaid-i-Azam University, where he served most of his life and of which he was director (2007-2011), made him a professor emeritus in 2010 and the Higher Education Commission (Islamabad) conferred upon him the title of Distinguished National Professor in 2004 and also gave him the lifetime achievement award in 2009. The President of Pakistan conferred upon him the Pride of Performance in 2004 and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 2013. He was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (1995-96) and the first incumbent of the Pakistan Chair at the University of California, Berkeley (2004-05). He was also a research fellow at the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies (2010) and a fellow at the University of Heidelberg several times from 2010 till 2012. He has been a visiting professor in Denmark and Spain and has lectured or read out papers in conferences in Korea, Nepal, China, the USA, Singapore, Thailand, India, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Switzerland. He is presently working as Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Acting Dean, School of Education, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore.

Dr. Shazia Humayun holds a postgraduate degree in Educational Leadership and Management from Beaconhouse National University. She graduated with a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Research from Louisiana State University, and a LAW degree from SM Law college.She has experience teaching K12 classes for the University of Cambridge, worked as General Manager-Academics at The City School, worked as a consultant on the Punjab Human Capital Investment Project, and lastly as a General Manager for professional development.

Ms. Arumah Zara David is a Lecturer at the English Language Unit, School of Education. She has an M.Phil in Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from BNU's School of Education and a Bachelors in English Language & Linguistics from Kinnaird College.Ms. Arumah previously served as a member of the visiting faculty at the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU).

Prof. Dr. Amra Raza holds the distinction of being the first PhD in English from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of the Punjab, Lahore. She has served as both the Director of the Institute of English Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities AT PU. Currently, Dr. Raza is the Chair of the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) and Country Head of Englishers (LLL) International. Her academic expertise includes South Asian Poetry, Shakespearean Studies, Post-colonial Drama and Fiction, Creative Writing, TESL, ELT, and Linguistics. She has been awarded the prestigious national Jane Townsend Poetry Prize and serves as the Editor of Spaces and Places: An Anthology of Young Creative Writers from Pakistan and Co-editor of Voices and Visions: Young Writers from Pakistan. Her research articles and poems have been published both nationally and internationally, and she has held the position of Chief Editor for the Journal of Research in Humanities, IES. Dr. Raza has also secured HEC grants for the In-service Training of English Language Teachers in Punjab and has conducted HEC-sponsored workshops, including "Teaching Composition Writing Strategies" and "Using Indigenous Literature for English Language Instruction at the Undergraduate Level" at the University of the Punjab,Lahore. She participated in an HEC-funded workshop on the ELTR Phase II Research Project, focusing on CALL in ELT. Additionally, she is a recipient of the International Erasmus+ Grant, completing her training at USAK University in Turkey.