Rakib Ehsan is a doctoral researcher at Royal Holloway. He is investigating how the ethnic composition of social networks and patterns of interethnic interactions are related to generalised social trust, political-institutional trust, and self-identification within UK ethnic minorities. His PhD is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Professionally, he has worked as a University Seminar Tutor, with a property & development communications consultancy, a criminal justice charity, and the Liberal Democrats.
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