Supervised Theses & Research

NOHFC Intern - Project Leader and Supervisor

2022 (Nov 2022 - Oct 2023): Research Assistant - Zeel Patel. Project: Retention of Northern Ontario Immigrants.

Mitacs Globalink Research Internship project - Project Leader and Supervisor

NOHFC Intern - Project Leader and Supervisor

2020 (October'20 - October'21) : Christopher Bridge NOHFC Intern) - Project: "Interprovincial Migration and Trade"
2019 (May-December): Ahmed T. Aziz (NOHFC Intern) - Project: "Interprovincial Migration and Trade".

SSHRC Institutional Grant 2020

2020 (September'20 - April'21): Tamanna Rimi (Research Assistant)- Project: "Northern Ontario Tourism during COVID-19 Crisis".

PhD/ DBA Thesis Supervision

2014: Perbaharen Balasubramaniam (Doctor of Business Administration) - Supervisor
2014: Jumana S A Musleh (Doctor of Philosophy) - Co-supervisor
2014: Mahmoud Manafi (Doctor of Business Administration) - Co-supervisor

PhD Examiner

2021: Alhaji Kabiru (Universiti Putra Malaysia) - External Examiner. Thesis: Terrorism, Military Expenditure, Foreign Direct Investment, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
2016 : Yew Ngin (Universiti Tenaga Nasional) - External Examiner. Thesis: Determining the Key Predictors Influencing Electrical Vehicles Usage Intention in Malaysia
2014: Muhammad Yusuf (Multimedia University) - Internal Examiner. Thesis: The relationship between Good Governance, Economic growth, and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria

MSc Dissertations (Assistant Supervisor) - University of Birmingham, UK

2008: Topics on "Exchange rate, international trade and time-series econometrics" (Supervisor: Nick Horsewood)
2009: Topics on "Exchange rate pass-through, interest rate pass-through & asset price bubble (Supervisor: Prof. Anindya Banerjee)
2010: Topics on "Exchange rate pass-through, interest rate pass-through, and asset price bubbles" (Supervisor: Prof. Anindya Banerjee).
2011: Topics on "International trade and financial econometrics" (Supervisor: Prof. A. Banerjee)

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Supervisor) - Algoma University, Canada

2021: Graham R. Slater: Projects - "Northern Ontario Tourism during COVID-19 Crisis" and "Northern Ontario Labour Market", Funded by Work-Study Program (May-August 2021)
2021: Paola Abreu Medina: Project- "Capital control and domestic and foreign Investment: OECD perspective." Funded by School of Business and Economics Research Funds.
2020-21: Thomas Barber: Project - "Interest rate pass-through during and after crises". Funded by "Work-Study Program", Algoma University.
2019: Leandra Papa - "Northern Ontario labour market: problems and policy" (Funded by "Algoma University Research Fund")
2019: Mitchell Harris - "Municipal cost index - The City of Sault Ste. Marie"
2017: Leandra Papa - "Labour migration and interprovincial trade in Canada" (Funded by "Algoma University Research Funds" with co-researcher Dr. Gerry Mahar)

Undergraduate Dissertation/Internship (Supervisor)

2021 (Sept - Dec): Paola Abreu Medina (Internship at Algoma Workforce Investment Corporation (AWIC)): Most demanded occupations in Algoma 2021.
2021 (Jan-April): Thomas Barber (Internship at Community Development Corporation (CDC). A study on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the downtown core of Sault Ste. Marie.
2020 (Jan-May): Leandra Papa (Internship at AWIC) - CAREER EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT - How are youth in Algoma entering the labour market?
2015-2016: University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus) - Dissertations

- Irfan Mowlah : Factors Driving IIT within ASEAN countries (Published in Applied Economics)

- Fathimath Naaheen : The impact of immigration on host country’s wages: the experience of Canada

- Fabia Rahman : Foreign Capital Inflows and Economic Growth in Developing Nations: An Empirical Approach

- Sundas Rehman : Female Education and Labour Force Participation in Developing Countries