Teaching & Mentorship
A record of university teaching, Cambridge education, postgraduate supervision, research mentorship, and academic support across Islamic Studies, Arabic, comparative religion, and research methodology.
Dr. Imran Hayat's teaching portfolio spans undergraduate, MPhil, PhD, and Cambridge-level education. His courses connect foundational Islamic disciplines with comparative religion, Arabic language, research methodology, and contemporary intellectual questions.
The course list consolidates repeated offerings across semesters and presents representative subjects rather than individual class sections.
Dr. Imran Hayat has taught across university, postgraduate, Cambridge, and community-learning settings. His experience combines subject teaching, research training, language education, academic assessment, and curriculum-oriented instruction.
University of Education, Lahore
April 2021-Present
Teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Islamic Studies, supervises graduate research, and contributes to academic, curricular, and institutional responsibilities within the Division of Islamic and Oriental Learning.
Aitchison College, Lahore
August 2014-September 2017
Delivered Cambridge O Level instruction in Islamiyat and Arabic within an internationally benchmarked secondary-school environment.
University of Management and Technology, Lahore
2019-2020
Taught Research Methodology and Arabic Studies at MPhil level, supporting postgraduate students in qualitative and interdisciplinary research design.
Department of Gender Studies, University of the Punjab
Taught an English-medium undergraduate course examining gender roles and religious thought across Greek, Roman, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
British Council Examination Services, Lahore
May-June 2018
Assessed candidates' Arabic oral proficiency according to Cambridge examination standards, with attention to fairness, linguistic accuracy, and academic integrity.
Institute of Management Sciences (Pak-AIMS), Lahore
Taught Islamic Studies with attention to ethical, constitutional, historical, and contemporary perspectives.
Government College, Gulberg, Lahore
Taught Islamic Studies at undergraduate level.
Islamic Centre Hamburg, Germany
October 2017-February 2018
Served as an imam and teacher of Islamic Studies, Arabic, and Social Studies.
Islamic Cultural Centre Oslo, Norway
February-March 2018
Delivered religious and educational lectures for a diverse Muslim community.
Dr. Imran Hayat supports postgraduate researchers from the early development of a topic through proposal design, methodology, analysis, academic writing, and final thesis preparation.
Currently supervises PhD and MPhil researchers in the Department of Islamic Studies at the University of Education, Lahore.
Has supervised five MPhil scholars to completion.
Has served as an external examiner for MPhil Islamic Studies theses at the University of Management and Technology and has evaluated eight research theses.
Student names, thesis titles, confidential records, and personal information are not published here.
Research mentoring focuses on helping students move from broad interests to manageable, original, and methodologically defensible studies. The process emphasises clarity of research questions, engagement with relevant scholarship, careful use of primary sources, and a coherent relationship between objectives, methodology, analysis, and conclusions.
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Refine the topic, research problem, questions, objectives, scope, and scholarly contribution.
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Select an appropriate qualitative, comparative, textual, historical, or interdisciplinary methodology.
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Build the literature review, source base, analytical framework, chapter structure, and evidence-led argument.
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Strengthen academic language, referencing, coherence, research ethics, presentation, and submission readiness.
This area directs students towards practical academic support for coursework, research planning, reading, writing, referencing, and responsible use of scholarly resources.
Resources will be added and updated gradually. Only verified and publication-ready materials should be made publicly available.
Explore Student ResourcesDr. Imran Hayat's teaching and mentoring in academic writing and research methodology support students in developing rigorous, well-structured, ethically responsible, and publication-aware research.
His methodology and publication practice is supported by postgraduate teaching, thesis supervision, external examination, academic peer review, and professional training delivered through HEC, Wiley, Elsevier, IEEE, and Pakistani universities.