Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Radan

Associate Editor-JSDC

Full-Time Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, North Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad-Mahdi-Radan

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fa&user=5jfohA4AAAAJ

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahdi-radan-3b136a24/

Institutional Website: https://ntb.iau.ir/en/page/1780/faculty-of-humanities

For Correspondence:

Email: mmradan68@gmail.com, mm.radan@iau.ac.ir

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Educational Details:

PhD: (1) 2019, Sociology of Culture, Central Tehran branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

(2) 2009-2012, MPhil/PhD program in Sociology (unfinished), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

PG: 1995, Sociology (majoring in social research), Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Professional Experiences:

  1. Faculty Member, department of sociology (1998-ongoing), Faculty of Humanities, North Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  2. Head of Department, Department of Sociology (2021-ongoing; as well 2007-2008), Faculty of Humanities, North Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  3. Educational Deputy-Dean, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences (2007-2009), North Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  4. Member of committee for designing and compiling the standards of Neighborhood Development Document (2014) based on the certificate authorizing by Deputy-Mayor of Regional Affairs of Tehran Municipality
  5. Judge in the festival for selection of The Best Student Thesis as well as the judge for selection of The Student Book of The Year in the humanities (2012), the Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR), Tehran, Iran
  6. More than 20 years of experience in implementing social research in various fields
  7. Designing and carrying out qualitative or quantitative research
  8. Applying software of data analysis in social research like as SPSS, MAXQDA, AMOS
  9. Member of the founding board and the board of directors (one term), The Iranian Association for Sociology (founded in 2010), Tehran, Iran
  10. Member (continuing) of Iranian Sociological Association, Tehran, Iran

Additional Information:

1) Research Interests: Cultural studies, sociology of culture, sociology of religion, collective/social identity, studies of inequality and  social stratification, Gender Studies, sociology of disaster, sociology of emotion

2) Language Proficiency: Persian (Farsi), English, Arabic (intermediate)