• Broken Promise of Globalization: The case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry. Published by Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield. New York , London 2014.
• Globalisation, Migration and Knowledge generation: A study on higher education institution in Bangladesh. In Chowdhury,R. et al. “Engaging in Educational Research: Revisiting policy and practice in Bangladesh.” Springer, 2018.
• Bangladesh: Women and Labour Activism. In Kaye Broadbent and Michele Ford (eds) "Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism." London/New York: Routledge, 2008.
• Revisiting Empowerment: Rising Female Employment in the Bangladesh Garment Sector. Journal of Human Geography. Volume 11, Number 2. 2018.
• Preventing another Rana Plaza disaster: Have reforms to Bangladesh’s garment industry gone far enough? Policy Forum, Asia & the Pacific Policy Society, February 22, 2017.
• Socio-economic Vulnerability and Neo-liberalism: Lessons from Bangladesh. South Asia Research, SOAS, UK. Volume 29, No. 3, pp. 235-254, 2009.

Sociology of Development, Inequality and Power, Urban Sociology, Introduction to Sociology, Rural Society, Sociology of Environment.

Bangladesh Garments Industry, Global supply chain, Compliance, Labor Relations, Sustainable Development.

• Received a research grant from the Danida Fellowship Center – part of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs – for a project entitled “The Regulation of International Supply Chains: Lessons from the Governance of Occupational Health and Safety in the Bangladesh Ready-Made Garment Industry”. The research partners are Copenhagen Business School, Tufts University, Danish Ethical Trading Initiative and BRAC University.The research project has three objectives:1) identify attributes of effective sustainability governance, 2) provide new academic and practical knowledge on the governance ofsustainability in international supply chains, and3) contribute to local capacity building.
  
  
• Working as one of the principal researchers in a project titled “The role of the business case in sustainability initiatives: Scalability of business case initiatives in the garment industry” funded by C&A Foundation. The research partners are Royal Holloway, University of London and Aconsa AB, a Swedish Consultant firm. The study seeks to understand the enabling and constraining factors behind the scalability of supply chain initiatives that aim to combine social or environmental benefits with a business case in the garment industry.

• Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) at Brac University in collaboration with the London School of Economics, the University of New South Wales, the Freie University, the University of Gothenburg has initiated a research titled, "Changes in the Governance of Garment Global Production Networks: Lead Firm, Supplier and Institutional Responses to the Rana Plaza Disaster". This three-year (2016-2018) research project is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation with Wellcome Trust and Riksbanken Jubileumsfond as part of the Europe and Global Challenges Program.  Our project is unique in combining systematic, comparative analysis of developed country lead firm supply chain policies and practices regarding labour and environmental standards rooted in different national and regional contexts with detailed, empirical analysis of supply firms’ managers and workers attitudes and behaviour. In order to understand the impact of the Rana Plaza disaster on the governance of garment supply chains and associated labour and environmental standards we also need to examine how these standards are influenced by Bangladesh’s political-economic context, particularly the government.

• ILO funded project focused on the development of National Plan of Action on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) for Bangladesh’s industrial sector. The National Plan of Action aims at improving the Occupational Health and Safety for all the people engaged in both formal and informal sectors in Bangladesh, in a way that the number of catastrophes taking place in the work place, fatalities and diseases is declined in a sequential manner and the constitutional and global obligation of the state is fulfilled in partnership with all stakeholders. Shahidur is leading a research group who are working at Brac University and BRAC.

• CED is going to implement a 4-year project titled Digital RMG Factory Mapping in Bangladesh (DRFM-B) funded by C&A Foundation and coordinated by BRAC USA. Worked in this project as a Senior Research Fellow to provide these services: Develop Baseline ToR, Review the short-listed proposals, Be present at the review meeting during consultants' presentations, Review and provide feedback on survey instruments, Review the draft and final Baseline Report submitted by the consultant.

• Working in a project with Department of Geography and Anthropology, Kennesaw State University on the human and environmental impact of the garment industry in Bangladesh