Diversity is the order of nature, and I am a multi-disciplinary researcher with diverse education and teaching background in Psychology, education, and management. Organizational behavior in education is my research area. I look for the scope of quality and improvement in organizational processes by addressing employee needs and emphasizing leadership and human development. My topics of research interest include higher education policy & governance, globalization & privatization of higher education, quality assurance, and improvement in school education. The topic of my PhD research was about student satisfaction with service quality in private universities of Pakistan and its impact upon the ranking of universities.

My approach toward research is inductive, and I usually adopt phenomenology as a research approach & mixed methods technique to explore the phenomenon. I have more than 50 research publications in international and locally published journals, magazines & newspapers (out of which 20 are HEC recognized). I have supervised more than 35 MBA theses, 25 MPhil theses; Currently, I am an HEC approved PhD supervisor. I have supervised 7 PhD candidates. 4 have completed their research and three are near completion. Recently, I have been working on issues of public school teachers; I am looking at public school governance system in Punjab from various angles to find out a leverage point to transform the bureaucratic system into a democratic one. More than 10 senior school teachers and headmasters are engaged with me in this self initiated project. We have collected data from 5 districts of Punjab in more than 25 schools. This data is under the initial phase of analysis, and we hope to dig out the systems’ needs of leadership from this data. In the next phase, we will seek strategies for change management in public school system of Pakistan. I love mentorship and help students and colleagues in developing their research plans. I am also editor of the journal of the department, UMT Education Review (UER); Its 4 volumes and 7 issues are published.  I am a part of the editorial team of many journals categorized by HEC and international journals of good repute.

Dr Seema Arif
CEO Digital Taleem o Tarbiat
Former Chairperson Department of Education and
Associate Professor of
School of Social Sciences and Humanities,
University of Management & Technology, Lahore. Pakistan