VU Virtual University of Pakistan
Department of English
Samina Saghir
Lecturer (Incharge)
Department of Economics
Faculty of Arts


M.Phil (Economics)


Economics
Official Email samina_saghir@vu.edu.pk
Contact +92 (42) 111 880 880 (Ext: 4843)
Ms. Samina Saghir has been currently serving as a Lecturer of Economics at Department of Economics, Virtual University of Pakistan since January 21, 2011.She has served the same University as Instructor/Tutor Economics from February 05, 2005 to January 20, 2011. She did M.phill from Lahore Leads University.She did Masters in economics from University of the Punjab, Lahore. After that she did B.Ed in Secondary Education from University of Education, Lahore. Her area of interest is Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.
Experience
Incharge
Department of Economics, Virtual University of Pakistan
From Feb 27, 2020 To present
Instructor/Tutor
Virtual University of Pakistan
From Feb 05, 2005 To Jan 20, 2011
Honors And Awards
Attended Two Days Workshop on Assessment in E-learning and Quality Assurance Challenges
Year: 2021
8 Training sessions on Time series analysis by Trends dated February 25-June , 2015.
Year: 2015
Attended workshop on Test Item Development (Bloom’s Taxonomy) Organized by Virtual University of Pakistan
Year: 2014
One Day Workshop on Learning Objectives, Learning Outcomes and Strategies to attain them for University Teacher
Year: 2014
Attended 5 day workshop on "Macroeconomics Planning & Management" at Pakistan Planning and Management Institute, Islamabad from April 08, 2013 to April 12, 2013.
Year: 2013
Attended 1 day training workshop on “Fabric of Assessment –Role of test items” on April 05, 2011.
Year: 2011
Participated in “E-Learning and Distance Education Conference (ELDEC)" as “Member of Organizing Committee” in April, 2007.
Year: 2007
Publications
Category: Environmental Economics
Impact of wind speed and air pollution on COVID-19 transmission in Pakistan”, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
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Category: Online and Distance learning
Samina Saghir, Kanwal Zahid, Amina Tabassum, Zafar Iqbal, Munazza Ahmed and Hira Liaquat (2016), “CHALLENGES IN THE ONLINE LEARNING OF ECONOMICS”, ASEAN Journal of Open Distance Learning, 8(2),55-66.
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Category: Health Sector
Samina Saghir,Bilal Mehmood,Syed Hassan Raza (2017) Productivity Analysis of Tertiary Care Hospitals in Punjab, Pakistan
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Category: Labor Economics
Batool, S. A., Tabassum, A., & Saghir, S. (2019). Dynamics of Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 39(3), 751-762.
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Category: Labor Economics
Amina Tabassum, Samina Saghir and Kanwal Zahid (2017), “Determinants of Labor Force Participation of Females in Pakistan” presented in SAICON (9th South Asian International Conference) held on August 23-25, 2017.
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Presentation
1 Presented a Research Paper on “Challenges Of Online Learning Of Economics” at “ELDEC- 2016” Organized by “Virtual University” on 14th March, 2016.