Parboti Roy is a PhD candidate, researcher and sessional lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC. She hails from the Chakma community, from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Parboti attained her second Master’s in Women’s Studies from Flinders University, Australia. She completed her Bachelor’s and first Master’s in Women and Gender Studies at Dhaka University, Bangladesh. She holds a faculty position as a lecturer (currently on study leave) at North South University, Bangladesh, where she taught undergraduate courses on gender and development issues and sociology. Parboti also taught at Simon Fraser University as a sessional lecturer for a semester in the Global Asia Program.

Parboti’s research interests broadly cover Indigenous issues, Indigenous women and girls’ rights, social justice, Indigenous research methodologies, and intersectional, Indigenous, and transnational feminist research approaches and praxes. She has publications on Indigenous issues, Indigenous women and girls’ rights, and the human rights of Indigenous peoples in Bangladesh. Her PhD research explores Indigenous or Adibashi women’s lived individual and collective experiences and mechanisms to deal with gender-based violence to offer a community-led framework of justice to address gender-based violence in the context of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh.

Public Scholars Initiative Award, UBC
Institute of Asia Research (IAR) Travel Award, UBC
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship Award, UBC