Background
Gayen was born in a Bengali Brahmin family from Barisal, Bangladesh.
Gayen was born in a Bengali Brahmin family from Barisal, Bangladesh.
She then completed her master"s from the same university in 1990, thereafter travelling to Edinburgh to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy from Edinburgh Napier University in 2004.
She is a professor of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka, as well as a visiting lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom. Her thesis was on Modelling the Influence of Communications on Fertility Behaviour of Women in Rural Bangladesh. Gayen is a full-time professor at the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism of University of Dhaka.
She is also visiting lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom.
She was awarded the European Union grant in 2004, to work on the "Social Network of Older Workers". In 2011, she received the prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh grant, and was subsequently invited to present lectures at Dundee University and Edinburgh University.
Johannes Karl Mühl, the German academic from Hochschule Furtwangen University, credited her with helping him write his book "Organizational Trust: Measurement, Impact, and the Role of Management Accountants". She has campaigned for justice in the Bangladeshi Judiciary, and is vocal against religious extremism and government oppression.
She has supported The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh.
She has protested against the arrest of Labour rights activists and spoken against the issues of gender-inequality and sexual assault prevalent in the Bangladeshi society. Militant threat
She was one of the ten people who received death threats from Islamist terrorist Ansarullah Bangla Team. The Militant group had also admitted to the murder of blogger Avijit Royal
She is a member of the International Network for Social Network Analysis and Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, as well as a columnist for various national newspapers, including the Bangladeshi English-language newspapers The Daily Star and Prothom Alo. The List included HT Imam - advisor to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University, and Member of Parliament Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.