Fahad Rahman

• Early-career professional with 10+ years of experience in social sciences research and teaching, especially psychology and anthropology, looking for opportunities to enhance learning environments with creative and critical thinking
• MA in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University with 5+ years of experience in teaching undergraduate psychology, with professional counselling experience, academic writing and publication experience, and policy advocacy with the UN
• Committed to DEI and marginalised populations with PhD research focused on the socio-psychological factors impacting British Muslim intersectional identities, particularly identities that relate race, disability, class, gender, and sexuality
• Student-oriented with strong attention to detail and communications acumen, focused on welfare and academic excellence

University of Oxford, Wolfson College | DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology | October 2016 - July 2023 

• Produced a thesis titled ‘We are Muslims too: The politics of identity, practice, and discourse of British Progressive Muslims’ 
• Awarded the Emslie Horniman Scholarship by the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2017 in recognition of my research

University of Cambridge, St. Edmund’s College | MPhil in Social Anthropology | September 2015 - August 2016

• Gates Cambridge Scholar 
• Led research projects and ethnographic fieldwork on civil society groups in London advocating for marginalised individuals from Muslim backgrounds

Columbia University, USA | MA in Clinical Psychology | September 2010 - May 2012

Fulbright Master’s Scholarship | CGPA 4/4

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan | BSc. (Hons.) Social Sciences | September 2005 - June 2009

Dean’s Honour List and scholarship | Distinction with CGPA 3.81/4 | Dual specialisation in Psychology, Sociology & Anthropology