Four projects and the part Md. Yosuf played in each: design, fieldwork, analysis and writing.
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Environmental awareness and practice among undergraduate students of government colleges in Dhaka
Govt. Titumir College Research Club (GTCRC), Dhaka
A student survey on what environmental problems concern undergraduates and what they do about them. It produced two peer-reviewed journal articles in 2026.
Role
Designed the primary data collection instrument, led fieldwork and carried out the quantitative analysis. Mentored junior team members in survey methodology, ethical data collection and interpreting statistical output.
Methods
SPSS and Stata: descriptive statistics, chi-square tests and regression modelling.
Sample
Fieldwork covered more than 400 respondents. The published articles report 382 students from three government institutions in Dhaka.
Impact of the July Revolution on daily food prices and household consumption patterns
Bangladesh
A research proposal on how a major political event shifted food prices and what that meant for household consumption.
Role
Operationalised variables for price shock, household resilience and caloric adequacy, using publicly available price data and primary survey instruments.
Outcome
First place among all competing teams, awarded by the Principal of Govt. Titumir College. See Honours.
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Smartphone addiction among undergraduate students of government colleges in Dhaka
Govt. Titumir College Analytics Club (GTCAC), Dhaka
A survey of smartphone use and addiction among undergraduates, later developed into a conference paper.
Role
Contributed to survey instrument design, systematic fieldwork, data cleaning and SPSS-based statistical analysis. Presented the findings to a faculty panel.
Sample
More than 500 undergraduate respondents in the fieldwork; 382 valid responses in the published analysis.
Findings
217 of 382 students (56.8%) were classified as addicted. An independent-samples t-test found no significant difference in CGPA between addicted and non-addicted students, while every measure of smartphone use correlated positively with addiction severity.
Outcome
Certificate of Completion with good scores (12 March 2024). Developed into a conference paper presented at the 3rd LURS Student Research Conference (Paper ID 260S1009).
Tackling inflationary pressures through effective budget allocation: a case study of the Bangladesh national budget 2023–24
Intra-College Research Fest 2023, research proposal contest, Govt. Titumir College Research Club (GTCRC), Dhaka
A research proposal on how far the allocation in the 2023–24 national budget matches the causes of inflation in Bangladesh, written by a team of three economics students.
Role
First-named author of the team, with Shah Al Amin and Md. Kamruzzaman (all Economics, session 2020–21). Analysed ten years of Bangladesh national budget data to identify structural mismatches between inflation drivers and budget allocation priorities.
Questions
What the 2023–24 budget does about inflation, how effective its allocation is likely to be in the priority sectors, and which policy changes would improve it.
Method
Budget figures from the Ministry of Finance and published reports, with content, statistical and trend analysis in MS Word, Excel and SPSS, and the 2023–24 budget examined as a case study.
Argument
A budget weighted toward physical infrastructure cannot ease inflation by itself. The proposal recommends priority for agriculture, energy infrastructure and industrial production, with subsidies on fertiliser, agricultural technology and industrial raw materials, and less spending on unproductive items.
Outcome
Advanced through multi-stage evaluation: written proposal, expert feedback and final presentation. A Certificate of Appreciation for the contest is listed under Honours.
