Shaheen has many of years of experience in Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, Cinema Studies, Borderlands, Indigenous Studies and Media and Communication. She has done her MPhil in Visual Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), MA in Arts and Aesthetics from JNU, Post Graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai and BA in English Literature from Fergusson College, Pune. She is pursuing her PhD in Cultural Studies from Monash University, Melbourne.

She has received laurels as being a Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Critics Campus Fellow (2020), Faculty of Arts International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Monash University (2018), Zubaan- Sasakawa Peace Foundation Grant for Young Researchers from the North-East of India (2018), Swedish South Asian Network (SASNET) Travel Grant to the SASNET Conference, Lund University in Sweden (2016), Indian Council for Social Science and Research (ICSSR) full travel grant for presenting paper at the University of Newscastle, Australia (2014).