Due to the progressively increasing crises of water deficiency in Iraq, past and current research work by the researcher Shayma AL-Rubaye has focused primarily on different means of water conservation and water resources management. Substantial portions of her work have been directed towards highly efficient irrigation methods, water harvesting, increase on-farm water use efficiency, increasing water productivity, using Renewable Energy Technologies for on-farm irrigation water, and water treatment. These work fields of water-saving done by the principal investigator in addition to her area of specialization in environmental and Natural resources Economy. For the past three years, she had an outstanding effort to use clean energy in the agriculture sector in Iraq. For instance, she participates with the Nonrenewable Energy Research Center at Al- Nahrain University in Iraq for using the solar irrigation system and water pollution treatment on the surface water. Besides, using the Nanoparticle fertilizer in Agri-food Productions. Moreover, she also cooperates with the Conflict and Development Foundation and the Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University by awarded the Tony Laos Memorial Fund for Middle East Research for determining The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Using Renewable Energy Technologies for Irrigation Water Pumping and Nanoparticles Fertilizers on Agri-Food Production.” This project aims to quantify the economic and environmental impacts of using the RE on-farm who depends on the groundwater for flooding the field. Furthermore, figure out the best way of treating the water quality; however, the kind of water in these farms has poor quality and high salinity. On the other hand, she helps the IDPs in the North part of Iraq as her works with many NGOs due to her partnership in The National Protection Cluster (NPC)- Baghdad - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

• 2021 - 1st winner on UNITAR Leading Inclusive 4IR: Empowering Women in Iraq for the Future of Work through Digital Reskilling created by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).

• 2018 Award from the Tony Laos Memorial Fund for Middle East Research by the Conflict and Development Foundation and the Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University research project title “The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Using the Renewable Energy Technologies for Irrigation Water Pumping and Nanoparticles Fertilizers on Agri -Food Production.”

• Norwegian Refugee Council

• The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP)

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

• Agricultural Economics Society

• American Water Resources Association

• Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

• American Economic Association