Key details
Fakhar Raza
Research & Knowledge Exchange Officer; Postgraduate Researcher
At present he is doing his PhD research on:
Finding better practices from multiple disciplines to expand the capacity of human learning.
Raza has also been a part-time Lecturer in School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences teaching Enterprise Systems.
Raza also works in the Research and Enterprise Services Team of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences which involves working across all Schools: Design; Law & Criminology; Humanities & Social Sciences. He has been supporting the Faculty enterprise activities and research/enterprise-driven projects coming out of the six research centres in the Faculty.
Activities he is responsible for are as follows:
- Organising
- Co-ordinating and developing events and diverse activities that provide opportunities for knowledge exchange and external partnerships.
- Developing and co-ordinating Short Courses
- Creating systems for solving novel problems that arise in delivering short courses and events.
- Promoting and supporting internally and externally-facing conferences and co-ordinating with multiple teams
- Generating impact by building dissemination strategies to reach external audiences while working with PR and internal communication team.
- Raising researchers' and the University research profile by creating and
- Collaborating to develop in the form of film, video essays and photography for use in blogs, social media platforms, articles for internal communications and externally facing websites.
- Updating and assisting with website content and using various social media tools and platforms to disseminate research and enterprise work and activities.
Research / Scholarly interests
- General Learning Intelligence
- Knowledge Creation
- Intuition
- Complex Systems
- Conscious Altering Experiences
- Flow States
- Future of Self-Organising Models
Key funded projects
- GRE Circular Textiles GREENWICH Hub (£20,000) 2020-2021 .
- EPSRC (2.4M GBP), 2020-2023 (£6000) Research assistant for knowledge exchange. Output for impact:
- GRE (£15,000) Licensee & Lead Curator, first virtually produced TEDx.
- AHRC / ESRC / NERC (£1.3M) 2018 – 2020 Coordination & Impact assistant
Presentations
Raza, Fakhar 2022 - Multi-dimensional Journey of Our Kind: Capacity of Human Learning - PhD Symposium - A Phenomenology of Misfits: Discrepancies Between Body and World