She is the former and first female vice-chancellor of Jagannath University, appointed by the President of Bangladesh since November 2023.

Later, she received a second postgraduate and PhD degree from McGill University of Canada with Commonwealth Scholarship in 2000.

[8] She then completed the post-doctorate of the Commonwealth Staff Fellowship from the University of Bath of the United Kingdom.

[15][16] Different public universities teacher have raised allegations of plagiarism in a research paper produced by Halim.

[17] Later, she issued legal notice against a Dhaka University (DU) reporter along with four others for publishing news of allegedly plagiarism in her research paper.