She pursued her PhD degree at Massey University in New Zealand under a Commonwealth Scholarship,[2] focusing on the intersection of gender and disaster studies Her thesis was titled Coping with Floods: the Experiences of Rural Women in Bangladesh.
[3] Nasreen began her academic career in 1988 as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Dhaka.
She received her PhD degree in 1991 with a Commonwealth Scholarship from New Zealand, developing a grounded theory on women's contributions to disasters.
[4] Nasreen was involved in various academic, administrative, and co-curricular activities at the University of Dhaka.
[7] Nasreen received the Mary Fran Myers Award, 2016 from the Natural Hazards Centre at the University of Colorado (Boulder), USA for her contributions in the field of Disaster and Gender studies over thirty years.