Professor Jafry is qualified as both an engineer and a social scientist. Currently Director of GCU’s Centre for Climate Justice providing academic and strategic direction, leadership and management for the achieving the Centre’s aims as global leaders in the delivery of high quality policy relevant research for development, teaching/learning and broadening knowledge exchange in the area of climate and social justice. She is an experienced lecturer at both the postgraduate and undergraduate courses on environmental management, sustainability and climate justice and supervises thesis to doctorate level. Tahseen's current research interests include the justice and equity aspects of climate change, gender and poverty targeting, climate migration and conflict, the psycho-social impacts of climate change, and the geo-political nature of climate justice discourse. Tahseen has over 25 years of research and development experience in international development covering many fields including agriculture, health, water, energy, food security, gender. She has worked extensively in these fields in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi), South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan) and small Island States as an experienced manager and co-ordinator of multi-country and multidisciplinary complex consortia for international donors.