Biographical statement
Zulfika Ismail is currently working as addiction counselor and program coordinator in a non-profit organization in Canada. She worked as national coordinator (in Sri Lanka) and a post-doctoral researcher for a research project titled Transnationalism, Tamil Diaspora and Global Engagement funded by University of Windsor. Sri Lankan Muslim in Canada, a research done by Zulfika under this project attempts to understand to what extent Sri Lankan Muslim in Canada satisfied with their life in Canada. The study focuses on subjective wellbeing as satisfaction and happiness through cognitive judgment and emotional state. She completed her doctoral degree at University New England, Australia in 2008. Her thesis, Barriers to Girls’ Accessing Schooling in the Post-tsunami Sri Lanka explores the long term impact of pre-disaster complexities due to war and conflict in the schooling of post-disaster context. Social and economic fragility constructed through fragile political situation impact on the wellbeing of individuals and community thus impact on schooling in the post–disaster context.
She has worked as a chief project officer at National Institute of Education, Sri Lanka and serve as Executive Director/Coordinator in a non-profit organization. She has published several articles and books on education, feminisms and gender and war and peace, which include three poetry books.
Research interest and focus: Education and wellbeing of individuals and community in post-disaster context, social context of and gender in education, migration and settlement issues, gender and organizational development and critical ethnographic studies.
