Md Ashik Ur Rahman
Md Ashik Ur Rahman is a Bangladeshi national and Flagship Doctoral Research Fellow in the Anthropology and Environmental Policy program. He attended Khulna University in Bangladesh and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science. He received the HM Queen’s Scholarship from the Thai government and earned a master’s degree in Natural resources management at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. Mr. Ashik studied the techniques coastal people of Bangladesh employ to deal with the adverse effects of soil salinity on their food security for his master’s thesis. Later, he also worked as a research assistant in the project ‘Social-Ecological interdependencies in dynamic Coastal Zones (Secure-Coast)’ under the Department of Geography at Kiel University, Germany. He has a background in the natural sciences and has done extensive work with coastal communities, which has piqued his interest in the anthropological study of coastal people’s livelihoods, social-ecological systems, and responses to the effects of climate change. This research is urgent since the coastal region of Bangladesh is particularly susceptible to the adverse effects of climate change.