Areas of Current Research Interest:

• Econometrics
• Mathematical Economics
• Quantitative Techniques for Economic Analysis
• Development Economics
• Gender Economics

Contributions to Teaching:

• 19 years teaching experience at Post Graduate Level.
• Served as Member, P.G. Board of Studies in Economics, Kannur University( from 2010 to 2017)
• Served as Member, Board of Studies in Economics (Pass), University of Kerala ( from 2014 to 2017)
• Served as Chairman, P.G. Board of Examination, Applied Economics (CCSS), Kannur University (from 2011 to 2016 and 2018
• Served as Chairperson, P.G. Board of Examination, IVth Semester M.A Applied Economics (combined), Kannur University ( from 2011 to 2016)

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Research Projects:

• Completed Ph. D on the topic “Women Empowerment through Capability and Accountability-A Gender Analysis from Kannur University in 2014
• Completed a Minor Research Project funded by Kannur University on the topic “Climate Change and Health care management in Kerala” (Duration of the project is December 2018 to March 2020)

Research Papers:

• Presented a paper on Social Sustainability through Women Empowerment in the National Seminar on Private investment and Sustainable Development organized by the Department of Applied Economics, Kannur University on 25/3/2003
• Presented a paper on Fisheries Development in Kerala, the emerging trends in the two days national seminar on Development Issues of Kerala in the Post Liberalisation Period organized by the Department of Applied Economics on 6th and 7th February,2004.
• Presented a paper on ‘Women and Work in Kerala- Prospects and Challenges’ in the 3 rd National Seminar on Sectoral Analysis of Kerala Economy in the Liberalized Context on 25th 26th February 2005
• Presented a paper on Women and Development in Malabar in the National Seminar on Development issues of Malabar conducted by the Department of Applied Economics, Kannur University on 4th January 2007
• Presented a paper titled Mental Morbidity and Socio Economic Deprivation in the Two day National Seminar on Policy Reforms in Education and Health and the Share of the Poor in INDIA sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi on September 12th and 13th 2007.
• Presented a paper on Educational Deprivation (Literacy Poverty) among Tribals in Kerala in the Two Days national seminar on Tribal issues in India with specific focus on Kerala organized by the Department of Anthropology, Kannur University on 17th and 18th March 2008
• Presented a paper tiled Socio Economic Impact on Arakkal Queendum in Kannur in the Annual Session of the 30th History Congress from 6 to 8th Febraruy,2010.
• Presented a paper on Mental Morbidity and Changing Role of Institutions in the Three Day National conference on Economic Reforms, Growth and Social welfare organised by the Department of Economics, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod on 16, 17 and 18th December 2013.
• Presented a paper on A Balanced Empowerment Strategy for Strengthening Accountability of Women Teachers in the Three Day International conference on Public Policy and Governance in the Era of Globalisation organised by the Department of Economics, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod on 12, 13 and 14th February 2014.
• Presented a paper on Gender Development and Inclusive Growth in the First Annual conference of the Kerala Economic Association organized by the Department of Economics, S H College Thevara, Kochi on 8, 9 and 10th May 2015.
• Presented a paper on Right to Health and Role of Mental Health Institutions in Kerala in the Second International conference on Deepening the democracy through participatory Local Governments and Rights Based Development organised by Kerala Institute of Local Administration, Thiruvananthapuram on 15, 16 and 17th May 2015.
• Presented a paper on Right to information Act as a tool for economic research in the Two day National Workshop on Elementary Statistics in Economic Research organised by EKNM Govt. College on 8 and 9th October 2015.
• Presented a paper on A balanced empowerment strategy for gender development in the Two day National Seminar on Information technology and women in the globalised Era organised by women’s studies centre, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi on 30 and 31st October 2015.
• Presented a paper on A Quantitative analysis of women empowerment in the 52nd Annual conference of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES) at IIMK campus, Kozhikode from 4th to 6th January 2016.
• Presented a paper on Conservation of Paddy Land and Wet Land and Role of Local Self Government in the Two day International Conference on Thinkers workshop on Decentralisation and Development organized by Kerala Institute of Local administration (KILA), thrissur on 20th and 21st January 2016.
• Presented a paper on Conservation of Paddy and Wet Land- Recent developments in the two day national seminar on Outliers and central tendency- A revisit to Kerala Model of development organized by Government College, Mananthavady, waynad on 27th and 28th January 2016.
• Presented a paper on A Balanced Empowerment Strategy for Strengthening Accountability of Women in the Two Day national conference on Innovations and transformation in Banking, Management, IT, education and social science organised by Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, Mangaluru on 26th and 27th August 2016.
• Presented a paper on Work- family Balance among women in the two day national seminar on Structural shift in Indian Economy: An assessment organized by Department of Economics, Govt. College Ambalappuzha on 19, 20th December 2017
• Presented a paper on Climate change and disaster management in India in the Three Day International conference on ‘India after 25 years of Economic reforms: what’s achieved? what’s ahead? organised by the Department of Economics, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod on 1, 2, and 3rd march 2018.
• Presented a paper on Gender an Access to finance’ in the Two day national conference on Banks and Access to Financial Service in India-Growth, Issues and Challenges organized by the Dept. of Applied Economics, Kannur University on 16th and 17th March 2018.
• Presented a paper on Land Use Policies, boon or bane in the Two day national seminar on Two decades of decentralization reforms in Kerala: Lessons learnt and tasks ahead’ organized by the Department of International Relations and Politics, Central University of Kerala, Kasargod, periye on 25 and 26 july 2018.
• Presented a paper on Credit accessibility and entrepreneurship development among rural youth- a case study of RUDSET Institute in Kannur in the Three day International Conference on Financial inclusion, Inclusive growth and social development: Performance and Challenges organized by Department of Economics, Kannur University on 6th to 8th February 2019.
• Presented a paper on Crimes against Children- Prevalence and prevention strategies in the two day international conference on Child rights: Emerging issues and Concerns organized by School of Legal studies in Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi on 1st and 2nd March 2019.
• Presented a paper on International Technology Exchange and knowledge sharing in Indian Health care sector- Problems and Prospects in the Three Day International Conference on ‘Trade war – does it affect the Global free trade Order’ organized by Department of Commerce, University of Kerala on 26th to 28th march 2019.
• Presented a paper on Entrepreneurship development and Employment generation in the One day National Conference on Advances in Management, IT, Education and social science organized by College of management and commerce, Srinivas University, Pandeshwar, Mangalore on 27th April 2019.
• Presented a paper on disaster prevention and management in the era of climate change with special reference to Kerala flood-2018 in 3 day International conference on Impacts of Flood on Agriculture and Rural Livelihood of the people in Kerala organized by Dept. of Economics, St. Marys College, Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad on 3, 5 and 5th September 2019.
• Presented a paper on Climate Change and Health Care Management in the three day international conference on Climate Change at St. Thomas College, Thrissur from January 8th to January 10th 2020.
• Presented a paper on Climate Change Adaptation in Kerala -A household level study in the International Conference on Sustainable Development and Education organized by Department of Economics, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod on 5th & 6th March, 2020
• Presented a paper on ‘Survival and revival of tourism industry in India- Post covid-19 scenario’ in the National Webinar on Impact of Covid-19 on transforming Indian Economy organized by Department of Economics, Dr. John Mathai Centre, University of Calicut on 12 and 13 January, 2021
• Presented a paper on National Education Policy 2020 and Research Programmes in India’ in the three day National Webinar on New Education Policy 2020 and Doctoral Colloquium organized by Department of Economics, University of Kerala, Kariavattom on 23-25 february 2021.

• P. Maneesh and Shaharban V (2015)- ‘Impact of food inflation on BPL and APL household consumption- A study in Kannur District, Kerala’, Indian Journal of Economics and Development, Vol 3 (11), November 2015, ISSN online (2320-9836), ISSN print (2320-9828)
• Dr. V. Shaharban (2017) - “A Balanced Strategy for Empowerment of Women Teachers” International Journal of Current Research and Modern Education (IJCRME) Impact Factor: 6.725, ISSN (Online): 2455 – 5428, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2017
• Dr.V. Shaharban (2017) -‘’Work- Family Balance among Women’ in the edited book ‘Shift in India Economy: some observations’ by Dr. B. Pradeep Kumar and Dr. Mothi George, ISBN: 978-93-87102-38-5, December 2017.
• Dr.V. Shaharban (2018) -‘’Work- Family Conflict management among primary school women teachers’ in the international journal of research in economics and social science (IJRESS) vol.8, issue1, jannuary-2018, ISSN(O)2249-7382, impact factor(SJIF):6.939.
• Dr. V. Shaharban (2018)- “Climate Change and Disaster management in India” International Journal of Current Research and Modern Education (IJCRME) Impact Factor: 6.725, ISSN (Online): 2455 – 5428, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2018.
• Dr. V. Shaharban (2018)- “Gender and access to finance- Role of women co-operative societies” in the Asian Journal of Research in Banking and Finance Vol. 8, No. 6, June 2018. ISSN 2249-7323, P 17-32
• Dr. V. Shaharban (2018)-article in Malayalam, ‘Kuttialude padana nilavarathil mathapithaalude pank” in shathabdi smarania, 2018, govt. mapplila UP school, thekkumpad, 2018
• Dr. V. Shaharban(2019) -International Technology Exchange and knowledge sharing in Indian Health care sector- Problems and Prospects in IMPACT: Interntional Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature. ISSN (P) : 2347-4564; ISSN (O): 2321-8878,Vol-07, Special issue-1, March 2019.
• Dr. V. Shaharban (2019)-Entrepreneurship development and employment generation- a case study of rudest institute in Kerala in the book titled ADVANCES IN MANAGEMENT, IT, EDUCATION, SOCIAL SCIENCES, MANEGMA 2019, ISBN No.: 978-81-938040-9-4, SIMS Pandeshwar, Mangalore.
• Dr. V. Shaharban and Amritha Rathnakaran (2019)-‘Disaster prevention and Management in the era of Climate Change with special reference to Kerala Flood 2018’ in JAC, A journal of Composition Theory, ISSN 0731-6755, A UGC-Care Approved Journal, Scopus Indexed, Journal No-18482, Volume- XII, Issue-XI November 2019, Page No : 128-135
• Dr. V. Shaharban (2020) - Accessibility and Entrepreneurship development among rural youth- a case study of rudest institute in Kerala in the edited book ‘Inclusive growth and social development towards an analytical and operational frame work’ by , K. Gangadharan, Bharati Publications, New Delhi – 110002, ISBN 978-93-89657-30-2, 2020, page no-141-157