Career-focused undergraduate research from BUP - industries, skills, and the economics of getting hired.
The BUPCC White Paper Series publishes short scholarly works on careers, employability, industry analysis, and the future of work.
BUPCC exists at the bridge between classroom and career. The series captures research that helps undergraduates - and the people hiring them - understand how industries actually move, what skills actually compound, and where graduate work is actually heading.
Every accepted paper is reviewed by a faculty-led editorial board, paired with an ORCID iD, registered with a permanent DOI under the CCPM framework operated by CFSBR, and hosted open access. Students leave each issue with a citable artifact they can put on a CV, an application, or a recruiter's desk.
Scope of the Series
The BUPCC White Paper Series publishes short scholarly works on careers, employability, industry analysis, and the future of work.
Sector deep-dives, role taxonomies, and the structural shape of Bangladeshi industries.
Skill gaps, graduate outcomes, hiring signals, and labour market data.
Founder journeys, startup ecosystems, MSME research, and small-business strategy.
Soft skills as research subjects - leadership, teams, communication, and workplace culture.
Remote work, AI in hiring, gig economy, and the changing contract between workers and firms.
From Issue 01 · 2026
Six peer-reviewed, DOI-registered white papers from this semester's cohort: faculty-approved, open access, ready to cite.
An empirical review of 2024–2025 remittance flows shows a 14% migration from formal hawala channels into USDC-denominated settlement rails. We map regulatory posture across four jurisdictions and quantify cost compression for senders below the USD 200 ticket.
Drawing on interviews with seven production leads, we reconstruct the bottlenecks that delayed forty-one monographs during Q3 2025 and propose a two-track scheduling model that the press has since adopted at near-zero capex.
Benchmarking a 3.8B-parameter open model across nine ARM SoCs, we surface a non-linear relationship between sustained TOPS and tokens-per-second once thermal throttling enters the picture, and translate the result into unit-economics guidance for mobile-first fintechs.
We argue that university procurement contracts, rarely scrutinised in repair-policy debates, are the cheapest available instrument for extending device lifecycles, and we draft three clauses ready for institutional adoption.
Triangulating household expenditure data with a sample of 312 tutor-supplier interviews, we estimate the Dhaka private-tutoring market at USD 410M annually and characterise its price elasticity in the post-pandemic period.
A six-month deployment of CCPM v1.0.0 at a 4,200-student campus shows that lightweight DOI registration and ORCID verification can be operated by a three-person editorial board without recourse to enterprise repository platforms.
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The faculty and student editors who steward every submission through review and registration. No anonymous gatekeeping: every approval is signed.
Faculty Editor-in-Chief
Associate Faculty Editor
Managing Student Editor
Reviews Editor
How it works
Frontend autonomy, centralised ingestion. The club owns its branding and hosting; CFSBR runs the metadata pipeline and Crossref deposit.
Club editorial team reviews the draft; faculty advisor signs the approval letter.
Issue landing page goes live on the club's own domain using the CCPM boilerplate.
Title, authors, ORCID, abstract, and the public PDF URL are packaged for ingestion.
CFSBR validates metadata, runs the XML/JSON build, and queues for Crossref deposit.
A permanent DOI is registered within 24 hours and resolves to the club's hosted PDF.
DOI prefix 10.67226 · Pattern [club_id].[series].[year].[issue].[serial]
Submissions open · Issue 02
A 3–8 page white paper plus a faculty approval letter. We handle DOI, ORCID, and open-access hosting.