For the younger generation of Pakistan, the underprivileged among them especially. The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals were the starting point, and poverty alleviation came first.
Associate Professor, COMSATS Lahore. Founder of Unsung Achievers, CourseMera and Noor-e-Ilm. HEC-approved PhD supervisor, and Principal Investigator on an AASSREC international research grant.
Stories and mentorship, certification and e-lecturing, and career guidance given in person. Each runs on its own. Together they carry one purpose: the younger generation of Pakistan, the underprivileged especially. The work began from the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, poverty alleviation first, and serves Goals 1, 4, 5, 8 and 10.
Recorded life journeys of Pakistan's quiet achievers, published in Urdu and English as learning material: scientists, civil servants, teachers, doctors, engineers, entrepreneurs, bankers, sportspeople, psychologists, lawyers and philanthropists. Beside the stories, practical AI shown on a real screen.
An e-lecturing platform, an initiative of Unsung Achievers. Three complete university courses, recorded lesson by lesson and free to watch in Urdu and English: Corporate Governance (19 lessons), Research Tools and Techniques (15) and Introduction to Entrepreneurship (11).
Noor-e-Ilm means the light of knowledge. It is the on-site mission: career guidance, mentoring and awareness sessions taken into public schools and colleges, and visits that bring students to universities and workplaces, by alumni, students, teachers and professionals who give their time. Designed in 2024; the on-site programme starts in February 2027, and its resources and funding are being arranged now.
Founded by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees. Three doors, one house: a story shows what is possible, a course makes it a skill, and a conversation helps a young person choose the road.
Inspiration is Stories, education is Courses, career guidance is Outreach. Together the three wings and the Research Bulletin are the working programme of a Social Sciences Laboratory: research, teaching and community outreach done in the open, on the platforms and the media surfaces built around them, since 2024.
| Programme | Wing | What it does | What already runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| StoriesInspiration | Unsung Achievers | Records the life journeys of scientists, officers, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs and everyday achievers, with their consent, and publishes them in Urdu and English as learning material | 490 videos, more than 100 long episodes, 100,000+ viewers, since August 2024 |
| CoursesEducation | CourseMera | Digitises full university courses and short lessons, free to watch in Urdu and English, on governance, research and entrepreneurship | Three complete courses, 45 lessons, open for certification, since September 2025 |
| OutreachCareer guidance | Noor-e-Ilm | Takes career guidance, mentoring and awareness sessions into public schools and colleges through trained volunteer ambassadors, and brings the best of those students to the campus | Concept paper 2024; more than 150 volunteer ambassadors registered by December 2024, with a membership form and certificates in place; on-site programme from February 2027, resources and funding being arranged |
| Research bridgeEvidence | Research Bulletin | Carries published findings to the public in plain language: the Bulletin, the Paper in Five Minutes, the Breakthrough Board | Format published on this page; the first study is in the field, September 2026 |
Founded and self-funded by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees since 2024. The three wings run in their own names, and the Laboratory's model is offered to any university that wants to build on it.
Sustainable Development Goals. The 2030 Goals were the starting point of this work, and poverty alleviation came first. It serves SDG 1 No Poverty, SDG 4 Quality Education, SDG 5 Gender Equality, SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, and SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities, for the underprivileged younger generation of Pakistan.
A laboratory is judged on its working, not its intentions. Every entry below is fixed by a date on a poster, a certificate, a grant letter or a published lesson, and the pictures further down the page are the same events seen from the room.
Unsung Achievers opens with one rule: find the people who changed something and never got asked about it.
The Creative Leadership Conference, with Volunteer Force Pakistan and KOT Enterprises.
Pakistan's largest entrepreneurial expo.
The World Startup Championship 2024, co-hosted by Superior University, the University of Lahore and the University of Sialkot.
On the stage, not in the audience.
Eleven sections, about 110 items, drafted with a doctoral scholar. Data collected in 2025.
The project profile records more than 150 ambassadors, a core team of eight, certificates of participation, and the first local sponsors.
A free online webinar with Dr. Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab.
Governing AI: the unpredictable challenge, then Transformational Innovations at Seminar Room A Block, COMSATS Lahore, with an e-certificate for every participant.
Three complete university courses, 45 lessons, free to watch in Urdu and English.
A second cohort, from Focusteck, ETS, KIPS, COMSATS, Seven Stacks, Spadasoft and the Punjab Group of Colleges, in roles they chose themselves.
Remote workers' well-being across Pakistan and Malaysia, with Dr. Nadir as Principal Investigator and Dr. Asma Imran as Co-Investigator.
The Malaysian half of the two-country dataset, in the field as this page is read.
Career guidance and counselling carried into public schools and colleges in person. Resources and funding are being arranged now.
Published on LinkedIn three months ago, and left here as he wrote it.
For the past two years, alongside my academic responsibilities, I have been working with a small team of students and volunteers on initiatives focused on knowledge sharing, career guidance, meaningful learning, and the promotion of inspiring untold stories through Unsung Achievers.
Recently, we have also started digitizing educational and industry-oriented courses with the hope of making learning more accessible to students, young professionals, and lifelong learners through the CourseMera platform. The purpose is simple: Service to Society through Education.
Some may view these efforts as social media activity, but the intention is much deeper. I consider education, mentoring, and sharing useful knowledge as a form of community service and, InshaAllah, a source of Sadaqah Jariyah. This journey is still a work in progress. Resources are limited, the team is small, and every lecture, interview, reel, and course requires significant time and effort. Yet we continue because we believe that our society needs more accessible learning opportunities, career awareness, positive role models, and platforms that promote hope, ethics, and lifelong learning.
Our vision is not limited to any platform. Whether content reaches people through YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, or any other medium is secondary. What matters is that knowledge reaches those who can benefit from it.
With the blessings of Allah Almighty, we will continue striving to contribute, in our own small way, toward education for all, career development, meaningful learning, and positive social change.
The journey continues.
Published on LinkedIn in June 2026: 2,089 impressions, 94 reactions, 21 comments and 4 reposts.
We have been calling it a technology problem. It was a typing problem.
A shopkeeper, a parent, a tradesman. Every one of them was told this technology was not for them, and every one of them accepted it.
The barrier was never intelligence, and it was never cost. It was an English keyboard.
The microphone has been sitting next to that keyboard the entire time. Free. Their own language. No card.
Thirty-seven seconds, and I do not type a single word.
Posted on LinkedIn, August 2026Twenty-one people replied to that one post. Six of them are here. Encouragement is never a small thing to give, and more than one of these arrived exactly when it was needed. The last two are the reason the invitations further down this page exist.
I still remember the days when I studied the PMS course under your guidance. What impressed me most was the way you integrated Islamic values with modern PMS preparation, making the learning experience both meaningful and practical. Seeing how your vision has now expanded into education, mentorship, knowledge sharing, and promoting positive social change is truly inspiring.
Truly great work. In a world where information is abundant but meaningful guidance is rare, initiatives like these create real impact. May Allah put barakah in your efforts and make this a source of continuous benefit and Sadaqah Jariyah for everyone involved.
Masha Allah Dr. Rana and your team. Your intent and the efforts to produce content beneficial for society is much appreciated. May Allah SWT bless you with the best reward. Please keep it up.
Excellent work and high grade intellectual contribution. The best part of your Reflections is چراغ سے چراغ جلتا ہے. Without this, old civilizations are replaced with new civilizations.
Dr Sahb really its wonderful initiative, and you will get positive results because of your noble cause. I am always ready to become a part of this cause.
That's great sir, will be grateful to work with you in this.
AI Insights with Dr. Nadir and the Unsung Achievers Podcast publish on the Unsung Achievers channel. The digitised courses publish on CourseMera, the e-lecturing platform.
Practical AI, taught step by step and demonstrated on a real screen rather than explained in theory. Written for teachers, students, parents, shopkeepers, and anyone who has never been shown how any of this actually works.
A volunteer-driven storytelling platform celebrating Pakistan's real-life heroes: teachers, doctors, farmers, parents, and everyday citizens. Bilingual stories of resilience, dignity and hope, grounded in human-development research.
Three complete university courses, recorded lesson by lesson and free to watch in Urdu and English on the CourseMera channel: Corporate Governance (19 lessons), Research Tools and Techniques (15) and Introduction to Entrepreneurship (11). Open to anyone, from matriculation to graduation.
How the three fit together: a story shows you what is possible, an episode shows you how to do it, and a course takes you far enough to put it on a CV. Inspiration → capability → opportunity.
Start your application and choose the course you want to be certified in. Three complete courses are already published and free to watch. The certificate is the step after that: you apply, you study to a schedule, you are assessed, and the certificate is issued in your name.
One email with your name, your city, what you study or do, and the course you want. You are sent back a start date. A token of PKR 500 from a public school, college or university; PKR 5,000 otherwise.
Watch the lessons in order on CourseMera, free, and work through the reading and the exercises at your own pace.
The quizzes inside the course, one written assignment, and a short final assessment. The pass mark is 60 percent.
A Certificate of Completion in your name, carrying the course, the lessons, the study hours and the date, signed by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees.
Every lesson is already on the CourseMera channel and stays free to watch, with or without a certificate. No lesson is ever behind a payment.
Taught by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees · Lectures 02 to 14
Taught by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees · The Let's Do Research series, Parts 1 to 8
Taught by Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees · Lectures 01 to 19
Dr. Nadir's own map of a research design, taught inside Research Tools and Techniques. Most students can recite the parts of a study and still cannot build one, because nobody ever told them it is a sequence of decisions. This is that sequence, and the letters spell what it is.
| The decision | The question it answers | |
|---|---|---|
| S | Study Purpose | Why study this at all? |
| M | Method of Investigation | Is this about a relationship, or a cause? |
| A | Approach to Interference | Do you observe, or do you change something? |
| R | Research Setting | In the field, or in a controlled setting? |
| T | Target Unit of Analysis | Who or what are you actually studying? |
| D | Duration, the Time Horizon | One moment, or across time? |
| E | Evidence, the Data Collection | How will you gather it? |
| S | Sampling | Who gets selected, and how? |
| I | Indicators, the Measurement | How will you measure it? |
| G | Guided Analysis | How will you analyse what you find? |
| N | Next Insight | And now, what can you actually conclude? |
Ten decisions, and the insight they produce. Get any one of the ten wrong and the eleventh is worth nothing, which is why the framework is taught in order rather than as a list. A short film exists for each decision, free on LinkedIn and on the channel.
The video is short on purpose: each lesson carries the argument and nothing else. The hours below are the guided study around it, which is what the certificate is actually issued against.
| Introduction to Entrepreneurship | Research Tools and Techniques | Corporate Governance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lessons on CourseMera | 11 | 15 | 19 |
| Video to watch | about 19 min | about 18 min | about 35 min |
| Guided reading | 5 hours | 7 hours | 8 hours |
| Exercises and case work | 4 hours | 5 hours | 6 hours |
| Written assignment | 2 hours | 2 hours | 3 hours |
| Quizzes and final assessment | 1 hour | 1 hour | 1 hour |
| Suggested study in total | about 12 hours | about 15 hours | about 18 hours |
| Complete within | 6 weeks | 6 weeks | 8 weeks |
“In Pakistan, what costs nothing is too easily taken for granted.”Mr. Khurram Khan, General Manager, HR and Sustainability, Shahkam Industries, on a visit last year
He was right, and it decided how this works. A person who has put something in tends to finish what they started, and a certificate that nobody finished helps nobody at all.
So the line is drawn deliberately, and not across the knowledge:
Every lesson free, always PKR 500 token: public schools, colleges, universities PKR 5,000 for everyone else Waived on request, no questions
The lessons are never gated. What carries a fee is the assessment and the certificate, and for the students and teachers this was built for it is a token rather than a price. If even the token is a barrier, it is waived on a single line of email, because the point of it was commitment and never revenue.
One email. Put the course name in the subject line and these five things in the body.
You are sent back a confirmation with your start date, the lesson list in order, the assignment, and the date of the final assessment.
PKR 500, a token, for every student and every teacher from a public school, public college or public university. They are who this was built for, and a tenth of the fee is enough to make it count for something.
PKR 5,000 for everyone else: private institutions, professionals and organisations.
And nobody is turned away over the token. If PKR 500 is itself the obstacle, write and say so in one line. It is waived, without a form and without a question.
Say which you are in your application. Nobody is asked for proof beyond their own word.
Why there is a fee at all is explained above, and it is not our own idea.
Certificates of participation are already issued and handed over in person; this is one of them, with the name blurred.
Certification is run by Dr. Nadir in his personal capacity through CourseMera, not on behalf of any university or employer.
Short articles by students, teachers, alumni, professionals and everyday achievers, published here under your name. If you learnt something the hard way, someone younger needs to read it.
“I consider education, mentoring, and sharing useful knowledge as a form of community service and, InshaAllah, a source of Sadaqah Jariyah.”
In Urdu or English. Written for a reader aged 15 to 25 who has never met you.
Publishing is free until February 2027. After that a nominal fee applies, for the same reason it does on the certificates: what costs nothing is too easily set aside.
Selected pieces are edited lightly for clarity and length, then published under your name with your bio. You keep the copyright and give permission for it to appear here and on the Unsung Achievers surfaces. Views in every article are the writer's own.
Every piece published here carries the writer's name, designation and a two-line bio. The first articles come from his own students this semester.
Research stays locked inside journals that the people it is about never read. The Bulletin carries the finding across, in plain Urdu and English, with the authors' consent.
A short, plain-language note on a social, economic, tax, environmental or governance question that touches a young person's life, with the evidence named.
The takeaways of one published paper, from this campus or any other university, in the authors' own plain words: what was asked, what was found, and what it means for you.
A scholarly breakthrough from a college or university in Pakistan, announced as it happens, so the achievement is seen by the students who will follow it.
A two-country study of people who work from home or in hybrid arrangements in Pakistan and Malaysia: what monitoring, stress and support do to their well-being, and what employers and policy makers can do about it. Data collection is under way in both countries in September 2026. A plain-language summary will be published here when the study reports.
This work/Project Leader was supported by funding from the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils ‘Boosting Social Sciences and their Contribution to Better Lives in the Indo-Pacific Program’, which was supported by a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of AASSREC, the IDRC or its Board of Governors.
300 to 500 words in plain language, one figure if it helps, the paper's DOI, your name and institution, and your consent to publish. Subject line: Bulletin: paper title.
Send a Paper TakeawayAn educator, researcher and founder with 25+ years in education, connecting academic knowledge with the lived realities of young people in developing economies.
Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees is Associate Professor of Management Sciences at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, where he served as Head of Department from 2020 to 2023. His research spans leadership, human resource management, organisational behaviour, psychological capital, and the purposeful use of AI in education.
As Principal Investigator on an AASSREC international research grant, he studies the well-being of remote workers in Pakistan and Malaysia. Outside the classroom he founded three social impact projects, Unsung Achievers, CourseMera and Noor-e-Ilm, so that what the research finds reaches the young people it is meant for.
None of it was built alone. A co-investigator who is also his mentor, the AI collaborator behind the broadcasting work, a founding team who gave their evenings to it in 2024, and a volunteer force of ambassadors across Pakistan.
Associate Professor, Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
Dr. Asma Imran is Co-Principal Investigator across the Social Impact Projects, and Co-Investigator on the AASSREC study of remote workers' well-being in Pakistan and Malaysia. She was Dr. Nadir's PhD supervisor and remains his mentor.
Her research spans human resource management, organisational behaviour, leadership, sustainability, social entrepreneurship and the use of artificial intelligence in organisations, published in HEC-recognised and internationally indexed journals. She has supervised MS and PhD scholars, and has contributed to curriculum review, quality assurance and research governance at her university.
She has been an advisor to Unsung Achievers since the founding team was formed in 2024.
Chief Executive Officer, Ilm-O-Irfan Technologies
Dr. Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab is the AI collaborator on this work. Together, in 2025, they built Avacast and Avinars: AI-enabled academic broadcasting, in formats that run from AI-assisted academic conversations and AI webinars to AI lectures, AI news and avatars. They ran the first of them at COMSATS Lahore on 6 May 2025, with an e-certificate for everyone who attended.
The principle they both hold to is the one this whole site is built on: scholarship led by people, delivery supported by AI. The technology carries the lesson further; it does not write it.
Two episodes they recorded together: The Creative Code, Understanding Generative AI from Scratch and the world's first Avacast.
Three people from outside the university who came to the work and stayed with it: one from artificial intelligence, one from industry and sustainability, one from the food industry and the bar.
Artificial intelligence · Industry Collaborator
His was the story that opened the podcast, as Pakistan's AI Hero, and he has stayed with the work since. With Dr. Nadir he made From Reluctance to Mastery in AI, the series for everyone who suspects the technology has already moved past them.
Advocate · Deputy Manager, HR and Administration, Gourmet · Industry Collaborator
A lawyer working inside an industrial HR department, which is an unusual pair of eyes and a useful one. He came in as an ambassador and has stayed as a collaborator on the industry side, where the questions are about hiring, conduct and what a young person is actually expected to know.
General Manager, HR and Sustainability, Shahkam Industries · Industry Collaborator
The bridge from the classroom to the workplace. He came onto the channel for Leadership in Action, and stands with the projects on the industry side, where a course has to mean something inside a real organisation. He has given a great deal to the teaching of soft skills, the part of a graduate's preparation that a syllabus rarely reaches.
Scientists, vice chancellors, civil servants, industry leaders, psychologists, lawyers and founders. Each one sat down for a long conversation so that a young person in Pakistan could hear how it was actually done, and each has stayed with the cause since. Their stories are the teaching material.
“We sincerely value and respect every contribution, regardless of its form. Every word of encouragement, prayer, piece of feedback, and act of support strengthens this mission.” Dr. Rana Nadir Idrees, replying to a reader
A teacher rarely has money to contribute. That has never meant a teacher has nothing to contribute, and the whole of this work is built on the difference. What is asked of you is whatever you actually hold.
An hour of teaching. A script marked. A question answered properly instead of quickly. This is the one every teacher already has.
Free training in what you know and they do not. Handing on the newest skill you have is a donation, and it is the one that keeps paying after you have forgotten it.
An internship for a deserving and competent student on our recommendation. A first job. A hand with starting a business.
Last on this list on purpose. If it is what you have, it pays for a student's education, and every rupee is recorded and reported.
Everything on this page was built by people who wrote one email. There is no committee to get past and no form to fill in.
If you changed something and nobody asked you about it, or you know someone who did, that is exactly the person this channel exists for.
Carry the work into your own campus, company or town. More than 150 people already have, and an hour a week counts.
The AI work, the industry bridge and the international study all began the same way: one conversation that did not stop at the recording.
An apple tree does not eat its own fruit. You came through a classroom like this one, and what you have now can feed a student you will never meet.
The ask goes in a deliberate order, smallest first, and nobody is asked for the next thing until the last one is comfortable.
One contribution, one young person who stays in school instead of leaving it. This is the first ask and the smallest, and it is the one that compounds.
You know what your organisation actually needs. Take one student for a season and let them find out what work is.
The last step, and the one that changes a household rather than a semester.
And if none of those is yours to give right now, give what you know. Free training in the skill you picked up last year is a donation, and so is an hour on camera saying how you actually did it, including the parts that did not work. For a student who has never met anyone who made it, that hour is the whole thing.
Write as an AlumnusUnsung Achievers began with the founder and eight colleagues who gave their time to it. This is the team as it stood in the December 2024 profile of the project.
Dr. Rana Nadir IdreesFounder, Team Leader and Host
Dr. Asma ImranAdvisor · HR and OB
Dr. Muhammad UsmanAdvisor · Finance
Dr. Farzana AshrafAdvisor · Psychology
Muhammad AhmedRelation Manager and Coordinator
Sadaat JabirChief Editor
Mr. Usman AliTechnical Advisor
Ayesha ImranMarketing Manager
Fajjar AliEditing Coordinator“Do it yourself with respect, hard work, truth, and honesty for a meaningful change in society.”
More than 150 ambassadors have joined from across Pakistan: students, teachers, doctors, engineers, nurses, software engineers, HR executives, a college principal and business owners. They carry the work into their own campuses, companies and towns, and they are the reason it reaches past one classroom. Below are the ambassadors welcomed in the project's December 2024 profile and the Digital Ambassadors who joined through 2025, from COMSATS and KIPS to Focusteck, Spadasoft, Seven Stacks and the Punjab Group of Colleges.
“We need volunteers for every position, but you don't have to fill every role yourself. We welcome contributions of any amount of time and expertise.”
That line has been printed on every ambassador's card since 2024, and it is meant. An hour a week is a contribution. So is one introduction, one edited clip, one school visit arranged in your own town.
What comes back
How to join. One email: your name, your city, what you study or do, and the time you can give.
Apply to Be an AmbassadorThe international projects, and the moments from the workplace worth keeping on the record.
Surveillance, Stress, or Support? Examining South Asian Remote Workers' Well-Being. A two-country, mixed-methods study of remote and hybrid workers in Pakistan and Malaysia, with collaborators in Malaysia, a survey in both countries and interviews to follow.
A capacity-building partnership on entrepreneurship curriculum and train-the-trainers, with Saarland University and Athens University of Economics and Business, and four Pakistani partners: LUMS, GCU Lahore, University of Gujrat and COMSATS. Departmental Representative and, for six months, Project Coordinator and Co-Supervisor, with project travel to Germany, Greece, Luxembourg and France in 2022.
Business students on internship write an evidence-based case study of the organisation that hosts them, on a fourteen-section workbook benchmarked on the Infosys case: origin and founder's vision, products, business model, governance, people, leadership, technology, marketing, milestones, challenges, SWOT, critical success factors, and lessons for the next entrepreneur. The cases go back into the classroom as Pakistani teaching material, with the organisation's consent.
An anonymous questionnaire for interns at the six-week mark: what the work was, what they learnt, what went well, what did not, and what the university itself should change in how it prepares them. Critical answers are never shared with the host organisation and never touch a grade, so the answers can be honest. The findings feed the internship programme and the case-study series.
The Youth Survey Questionnaire Project, “Empowering the Young Generation of Pakistan”: a survey of young people from matriculation to graduation, designed in late 2024 with a doctoral scholar of the Department, with the data collected in 2025. It asks about aspirations and what success means to them, education and skills, whom they name as successful professionals and scientists, social media and entertainment, career preparation and networking, awareness of social issues and of out-of-school children, mental health, volunteering, and scholarships. About 110 items, closed and open. Its findings shaped the three wings and the on-site programme.
The sessions, the certificates handed over at the close of a recording, the conference podium, and the field work: photographs from the Unsung Achievers studio and from the EU Erasmus+ TAKE-UP project in Greece and Germany.
Two years of it, on LinkedIn and on Facebook both. LinkedIn's own year-end counts are 123 posts in 2024 and 213 in 2025, which is 336 posts in two years. Over the same two years the following grew from 2,200 to 5,685, and today it stands at 6,776 followers and 6,630 connections. The subjects are the ones a syllabus rarely reaches: stress, conflict and time management, communication and neuro-linguistic programming, employability and the future of work, research made plain, and what artificial intelligence is actually doing to all of it. A selection is below, each one opening full size. Together they are the working record behind the Social Sciences Laboratory.
Forty-six posts in three months on LinkedIn alone, read 17,250 times between them, counted off the posts one by one. Made for the shopkeeper and the student rather than the engineer, and made alongside a full teaching load and an international research grant. The steadiness is the point as much as the content: nobody commissions these, and none of them is sponsored. Ten of the AI series are below.
A good tailor does not just make a suit. He measures first. Same model, completely different answer, and the difference is context.
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. The question he is asked most, answered honestly: there is no wrong door.
Think about your barber. First visit he asks what haircut you like. Second visit, maybe he asks again. That is why your AI keeps asking.
Most people use AI like a hotel room. You check in, ask your question, take the answer and leave. Nothing remembers you.
Search, answer, forget. He asked his students how they use AI and almost every answer was the same one.
Ask, build, connect. Three levels and one quick check, so you can find out in a minute which one you are on.
The one habit that separates professionals from everyone else, and most people stop one step before it.
For years he watched capable people decide that AI was not for them. Not because they could not understand it.
Learning AI from scratch, in the order that actually works rather than the order it is usually taught.
There are two versions of you right now, and the distance between them is not luck. It is a plan you have not written yet.
The three wings and the Social Sciences Laboratory run in the open and are built with partners. Everyone who shares the mission is invited to join it as a mission partner. Here is what each kind of partner can do, and what comes back.
Joint studies on the working model of the AASSREC project: one instrument, two countries, shared data, co-authorship on the paper and the policy brief.
The bridge between the classroom and the workplace runs through you: interns, cases, mentors and guests.
The on-site programme starts in February 2027 and is being resourced now. A contribution buys something concrete, and every contribution is recorded and reported to the giver.
From February 2027, a team of four to six comes for a half day: a Stories screening, a career session by class, an awareness session on well-being and digital safety, and a course enrolment.
Over 150 ambassadors registered by December 2024. The work is done by people who give their time.
Education authorities, professional bodies, chambers, networks and media that reach young people or the institutions that serve them.
Anyone who wants to become a mission partner, an individual or an organisation, can apply by email. Subject line: Mission Partner: your name or organisation. Attach your CV or a brief profile, and write in a few lines:
Every application is read. Partners are confirmed in writing, and the work starts from the first conversation.
This page, printed to A4, for a committee, a board or a funder's file.
Download the A4 Profile (PDF) ↗Institutional contact: Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus. Tel +92 42 111 001 007.
Six of the most recent, from 26 published works: 22 journal articles and 4 book chapters. The full record is on Google Scholar and ORCID.
Full list and citations: Google Scholar · ORCID 0000-0001-5651-4279
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One name on every platform: Unsung Achievers. Follow on the one you already use.
This page carries the names or photographs of more than a hundred people. That deserves a plain statement rather than a policy nobody reads.
It sets no cookies. It runs no analytics and no tracking of any kind. It stores nothing in your browser, and there is no form anywhere on it, so there is nothing for you to fill in and nothing to collect.
The typefaces are served from this site, not from Google, so no request leaves here for a font. Two things do reach YouTube, and both are said here rather than buried: the small preview pictures on the video tiles, and the videos themselves, which load only when you press play, through YouTube's no-cookie domain, so nothing from YouTube runs until you choose it.
You do not have to give a reason and you will not be asked for one. Write one line to [email protected] with the subject Remove me, saying which picture or name is yours.
It comes down the same day it is read, and it is not put back. The same applies if you would rather your name appeared differently, or your role was described another way.
Ask to Be RemovedEveryone named here gave their consent to be named. If you believe yours was missed, the line above is the fastest way to fix it, and fixing it takes priority over anything else on this page.
