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Dr Muhammad Ashikur Rahman

Lecturer in Work and Employment

academic profile

School/Department: Business, College of

Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 5940

Email: mar55@leicester.ac.uk

Address: Brookfield Teaching Center, Room no. 0.52

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Profile

I have been working in the UK academia as an educator since 2017. I did my PhD in Management at the University of Leicester. Prior to this I worked in the development sector since 2012. Currently I hold a lectureship position at the University of Leicester designing and delivering a wide range of modules in the area of Management, Work, Employment and HRM. I have developed a strong teaching and research portfolio at Leicester and as a recognition to that Advance HE, a global organisation for improving higher education, awarded me the Fellow status. Currently, I am leading the BA Business and Management programme in the School of Management. 

Aligning with the current education needs, I trained in many education and research focused technological platforms such as NVivo, SPSS, Onenote, Polleverywhere, and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, I am an expert in Salesforce, which is a fun way of doing something entirely different from my primary field. 

Research

My research is around the influence of macro-political settlement on the policy-making about work and labour issues, labour institutions and governance, and global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of MNCs. These researches have implications for policy-making and for generating new knowledge in the field of political sociology. I will be happy to supervise any students who are interested in these areas to pursue their master’s dissertation or PhD thesis. 

Hossain, N., Hassan, M.M., Rahman, M.A., Ali, K.S. and Islam, M.S. (2019). ‘The Politics of Learning Reforms in Bangladesh', in Hickey, S. and Hossain, N. (ed.). The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning. Oxford University Press, pp. 64-85.

Hossain, N., Hassan, M., Rahman, M. A., Ali, K. S. and Islam, M. S. (2017). The problem with teachers: the political settlement and education quality reforms in Bangladesh. ESID Working Paper No. 86. Manchester.

Hossain, N., Kalita, D., Omondi, B., Posse, L., Raaj, V., Rahman, M.A. and Sambo, M. (2017). “Framing 'food riots': Subsistence protests in international and national media, 2007-2012”, in Naomi H., et al. (ed.) Framing ‘food riots': Subsistence protests in international and national media, 2007-2012. Book chapter “Food riots, food rights and the politics of provisions”. Routledge, pp. 53-75.

Teaching

I have taught a wide range of subjects including Employment Relations in the changing economy, International Human Resource Management, Management Decisions and Risk Analysis, Employee Learning and Development. Currently, I teach Globalisations and Skills, Empoloyment Relations in the Global Economy and Management in Practice. 

Qualifications

Fellow of Higher Education Academy 

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