Lopita Huq is a Research Fellow of the Gender and Social Transformation cluster at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University.
Lopita joined BIGD in 2007 as a Senior Research Associate. Prior to that, she was an anthropologist at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) from 2000- 2007. As a Research Fellow at BIGD, she is responsible for a number of research projects which she co-leads. Her main areas of experience include qualitative research on social norms, attitudes, and practices related to different dimensions of women’s work, including garment factory work and unpaid care work. She has also worked extensively on marriage, dowry, education, and adolescence. Her interests also include NGO strategies and practices around mobilization, and citizenship and rights. Although her expertise is in qualitative research, she also engages in basic quantitative research design and analysis, and experiments with the audio-visual medium.
Lopita completed her Master’s in Cultural Anthropology with a focus on gender from the New School for Social Research in the US, and Bachelor’s in Political Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
Date: 2024
Author(s): Roelen, Keetie; Ahmed, Md. Shakil; Chowdhury, Kabita; Diwakar, Vidya; Huq, Lopita; Al Mamun, Saklain; Rabbi, Abu Sayem; Tahreen Rahman, Nuzaba; Rownak, Raisa; Sultan, Maheen; Sumanthiran, Shilohni
Publisher: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2023
Author(s): Hunt, Xanthe; Hameed, Shaffa; Tetali, Shailaja; Ngoc, Luong Anh; Ganle, John; Huq, Lopita; Shakespeare, Tom; Smythe, Tracey; Ilkkursun, Zeynep; Kuper, Hannah; Acarturk, Ceren; Kannuri, Nanda Kishore; Mai, Vu Quynh; Khan, Rifat Shahpar; Banks, Lena Morgon
Publisher: International Journal for Equity in Health
Date: 2023
Author(s): Jahan, Nusrat; Huq, Lopita; Arman, Md. Raied
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2023
Author(s): Nazneen, Sohela; Huq, Lopita
Publisher: Development Policy Review
Date: 2022
Author(s): Ton, Giel; Roelen, Keetie; Howard, Neil; Huq, Lopita
Topic(s): Gender Justice
Publisher: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2022
Author(s): Banks, Lena Morgon; Willan, Samantha; Inglis-Jassiem, Gakeemah; Dunkle, Kristin; Ganle, John; Shakespeare, Tom; Khan, Rifat Shahpar; Hameed, Shaffa; Machisa, Mercilene; Watson, Nicholas; Carpenter, Bradley; Smythe, Tracey; Mthethwa, Nomfundo; Seketi, Queen; Wilbur, Jane; Nzuza, Ayanda; İlkkurşun, Zeynep; Tetali, Shailaja; Huq, Lopita; Clyde, Amanda; Hanass-Hancock, Jill
Topic(s): COVID-19, Social Transformation
Publisher: IDS Bulletin
Date: 2022
Author(s): Sultan, Maheen; Huq, Lopita; Rahman, Khandker Wahedur; Arman, Md. Raied
Topic(s): Social Transformation, COVID-19
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2022
Author(s): Oosterom, Marjoke; Huq, Lopita; Namuggala, Victoria Flavia; Nazneen, Sohela; Nankindu, Prosperous; Sultan, Maheen; Sultana, Asifa; Azim, Firdous
Topic(s): Gender Justice
Publisher: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2022
Author(s): Sultan, Maheen; Huq, Lopita; Sultana, Asifa, Al Mamun; Saklain
Topic(s): Gender Justice
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2022
Author(s): Arman, Md. Raied; Bhattacharjee, Anindita; Das, Narayan; Ghosh, Dipanwita; Gomes, Mohima; Huq, Lopita; Kamruzzaman, Md.; Mahmood, Sakib
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2022
Author(s): Sultan, Maheen; Huq, Lopita; Sultana, Asifa, Al Mamun; Saklain
Topic(s): Gender Justice
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2022
Author(s): Sultan, Maheen; Aktar, Taslima; Rahman, Khandker Wahedur; Pabony, Nuha Annoor; Noshin, Maliha; Nath, Shravasti Roy; Labib, Mahir; Islam, Md Zahirul; Kabir, Farhana; Huq, Lopita; Hossain, Md Rakib; Chowdhury, Kabita; Arman, Md Raied; Antara, Iffat Jahan; Mamun, Saklain Al
Topic(s): Social Transformation
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2022
Author(s): Kabeer, Naila; Huq, Lopita; Aktar, Taslima; Mamun, Saklain Al; Alam, Afsana; Nath, Shravasti Roy; Sultana, Razia
Topic(s): COVID-19, Social Transformation
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2021
Author(s): Kabeer, Naila; Huq, Lopita; Aktar, Taslima; Mamun, Saklain Al; Alam, Afsana; Nath, Shravasti Roy; Sultana, Razia
Topic(s): COVID-19, Social Transformation
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2021
Author(s): Huq, Lopita; Sultana, Razia; Ashravee, Firoza; Jahan, Nusrat
Topic(s): Social Transformation, COVID-19
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2021
Author(s): Kabeer, Naila; Huq, Lopita; Rahaman, Muhammad Mahabub
Topic(s): Social Transformation, Gender Justice, Economic Development
Publisher: United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research
Date: 2021
Author(s): Huq, Lopita; Khondaker, Sahida; Mahpara, Pragyna; Sultan, Maheen; Khondoker, Zarine Anan; Syed, Samia
Topic(s): Social Transformation, Digitization
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2020
Author(s): Huq, Lopita; Sultan, Maheen; Khondoker, Zarine Anan
Topic(s): Digitization, Social Transformation
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2020
Author(s): Huq, Lopita; Devonald, Megan
Topic(s): Social Transformation
Publisher: Gender & Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE)
Date: 2019
Author(s): Sultan, Maheen; Shafi, Salma A.; Chowdhury, Kabita; Khondaker, Sahida; Mahpara, Pragyna; Huq, Lopita
Topic(s): Social Transformation
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2019
Author(s): Ahmed, Md. Shakil; C Das, Narayan; Huq, Lopita; Prabhakar, Pallavi; Sulaiman, Munshi
Topic(s): Skills and Jobs, Social Transformation, Governance and Politics
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2019
Author(s): Huq, Lopita; Kabeer, Naila; Sulaiman, Munshi
Topic(s): Social Transformation
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2016
Author(s): Huq, Lopita
Topic(s): Social Transformation, Gender Justice
Publisher: BIGD
Date: 2013
Author(s): Simeen Mahmud; Lopita Huq
Topic(s): Gender Justice, Economic Development, Skills and Jobs
Publisher: Solidarity Center
Date: 2012
Author(s): Huq, Lopita; Kabeer, Naila; Mahmud, Simeen
Topic(s): Gender Justice, Social Transformation
Publisher: BRAC Development Institute
Date: 2012
Author(s): Mahmud, Simeen; Sultan, Maheen; Huq, Lopita
Topic(s): BRAC Programs, Gender Justice, Social Transformation
Publisher: BRAC Development Institute
Year: 2021
Topic(s): Humanitarian, Skills and Jobs, Social Transformation
Year: 2021
Topic(s): Digitization, Gender Justice, Social Transformation
Year: 2021
Topic(s): Digitization, Gender Justice, Social Transformation
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Researcher(s): Lopita Huq, Taslima Aktar, Saklain Al Mamun
Topic(s): COVID-19, Gender Justice
Status: Completed
Researcher(s): Lopita Huq, Taslima Aktar, Saklain Al Mamun
Topic(s): Gender Justice, COVID-19
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Maheen Sultan, Lopita Huq, Khandker Wahedur Rahman, PhD, Md. Raied Arman, Iffat Jahan Antara, Maliha Noshin Khan
Topic(s): COVID-19, Gender Justice
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Lopita Huq
Topic(s): Social Transformation
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Lopita Huq
Topic(s): Social Transformation, Digitization, Economic Development
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Maheen Sultan, Lopita Huq, Pragyna Mahpara, Saklain Al Mamun, Taslima Aktar
Topic(s): Social Transformation, Gender Justice, Skills and Jobs
Status: Ongoing
Researcher(s): Maheen Sultan, Saklain Al Mamun, Lopita Huq, Kabita Chowdhury
Topic(s): Gender Justice, Social Transformation
Status: Completed
Researcher(s): Maheen Sultan, Lopita Huq, Pragyna Mahpara, Taslima Aktar, Saklain Al Mamun, Kabita Chowdhury
Topic(s): Social Transformation, Digitization, Gender Justice
Status: Completed
Researcher(s): Maheen Sultan, Lopita Huq, Pragyna Mahpara
Topic(s): Social Transformation, BRAC Programs, Gender Justice
Status: Completed
Researcher(s): Munshi Sulaiman, PhD, Narayan C. Das, PhD, Lopita Huq, Md. Shakil Ahmed
Topic(s): Skills and Jobs, Social Transformation, BRAC Programs
Status: Completed
Researcher(s): Lopita Huq
Topic(s): Gender Justice, Skills and Jobs, Economic Development
