Shajeda Dewan has experience of working with Ethnic Minorities in areas of Social Work, Health Promotion, Community Development, Health and Social Research. Her current and future academic interests are in Cultural Psychology, Anthroplogy, and Social Work Policy issues related to Ethnic Minorities. She has further research interests in both Evolutionary processes of Religion related to Judaism, Christianity, and discourses in Islam, in relation to its Historical Development. Shajeda Dewan hopes to undertake Ethnographic research contributing to the deconstruction of Culture within Islamic discourses and to the development of Critical Perspectives in Islam. Her research paper "Islam and Jihad: The Associations with Violence and Martyrdom, History and Contributory Factors to Global Terrorism" was presented at the Northeast Region Conference on Christianity and Literature in New York. The paper identified cross disciplinary factors in relation to Terrorism, brought new findings and recommended directions to address the concerns of Global Terrorism in light of its findings. She has also presented a research paper at the international conference of The Centre for the study of Islam and Democracy, on 21st April 2007, in Washington D C, U.S