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Muhammad Saud, Ph.D

Dr. Muhammad Saud Kharal (born 1990), is an academic of Bhakkar, Punjab, Pakistan, who is currently working as youngest International Staff of Sociology and is now the editor of the several journals in Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia.

Early life and education

The eldest of six brothers & sisters, the others being Humayun, Taimoor, Moeez, Marwa, Anns & Safa, Saud was born in a business community in Darya Khan. He attended District Public School and Inter-Science College, in Bhakkar, and then Government Degree College, Bhakkar. On completing high school, he enrolled at the International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan on IIU talent scholarship in a Bachelor of Science Major in Sociology (BS Honors), majoring in gender and youth participation. After graduating, he worked as a visiting lecturer in Sociology at IIU, while pursuing post-graduate studies in this field. Beside the worked in academic positions, he worked in the development sectors (NGOs) and has contributed to a series of youth development projects and particularly on youth policy, youth manifesto for the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI), youth advocacy, at the grassroots level. He is working with think tanks to promote youth as the main indicator of social change in the democratic society. He started his career from the spirit of volunteerism and got the Best Volunteer Award from Rozan Pakistan. He is currently engaged in funded projects with Indonesian and Malaysian Universities on the Democratic Practice and Youth political participation. He is also associated with national and international forums. In 2016, he was awarded a World Class University (WCU) scholarship sponsored by Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia for a Doctoral degree in Sociology. He graduated in 2020 from UNAIR with the best researcher for having the highest record of publications.

Study in Indonesia

In 2016, he was awarded a World Class University (WCU) scholarship sponsored by the University of Airlangga, Indonesia for a Doctoral degree in Sociology to study in Indonesia for three years. Dr Muhammad Saud completed his PhD in 30 months. His doctorate thesis, Democratic practices and youth political participation in Pakistan were assessed to be the most outstanding work, earning him the best youngest researcher in the University of Airlangga, Indonesia.

In addition, he received a Faculty of Social and Political Science (FISIP) University Airlangga grant in 2018; the Sociological Association in Japan, 2018–2019: Social Networks and youth political participation, a postgraduate Publications Award in 2019 and numerous research grants. He is currently working on three funded projects “Civic Engagement, Political socialization and public participation in online and offline spheres”, Digital Democracy and Political Infrastructure: How the Digital Era is Transmuting politics among youth in Indonesia, and “Religious Support, Quarantine, Social Distancing and Community Engagement for Covid-19: The Social Campaign from Indonesia”.

He also took many civic initiatives for the communities are Pakistan Reading Corner, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia; First time among the student’s initiatives of Pakistan, he has initiated Reading Corner to promote the work of Pakistani writer in Indonesia. The purpose is to invite scholars to send their books for this Nobel cause. The idea is to display 300 books for UNAIR students. Secondly, Pakistan Student Association Indonesia (PSA-UA), He was elected as a President of Pakistan Student Association (PSA). It’s another initiative to expand the academic collaboration with Pakistani Universities and Indonesian universities, however, so far around 7 universities have (MoUs) collaborated with Universitas Airlangga, Universitas Muhammadyah and ITS Surabaya from Indonesia, while from Pakistan are: Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), National University of Science and Technology (NUST), International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIU), Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad (QAU), Bahria University Islamabad (BUIC), University of Karachi (ICCBC) and North West school of Medicine (NWSM)  Pakistan. Additionally, Pakistan Scholarship for doctoral and master students to study in Indonesia, he has worked with UNAIR management, Embassy of Pakistan, Jakarta and Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, Islamabad to initiate and encourage higher management to offer a scholarship for Pakistan students, so far currently 20 students in Master and Doctoral studies.

Employment History

After the bachelor studies, Dr Muhammad Saud was worked in several reputable donor organizations are Human Development Foundation, Association for Social Development, Youth Parliament of Pakistan, Pattan Development Organisation, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, and Sangat. On completion of his doctoral studies, Dr Muhammad Saud was appointed International staff -lecturer in Sociology, at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Airlangga, Indonesia.

Papers and awards

He has published more than 40 papers in renowned journals all over the world. . He has written chapters in books like Global Social Problems (Palgrave Macmillan) as The Challenges of Youth Opportunities in the Political Structure of Pakistan. Dr Muhammad Saud is sub-editor & expert in several journals in all over the world are: Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik Journal (MKP) (ISSN- 2086-7050), Society  (ISSN-2338-6932), Indonesian Sociological Association, Journal Kelola  (ISSN-2622-6103), The Study of Religia Journal of Islamic Thought and Education  (ISSN- 2598-2834), Social Indicators  (ISSN- 1573-0921), International Journal of Migration and Integration  (ISSN- 1874-6365), International Journal of Sociology and Social policy  (ISSN-0144-333X), Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities  (ISSN-Print_ 1994-7046), Review of European Studies  (ISSN-1918-7173), Margalla Papers, National Defence University Journal, AFKAR : Journal of Aqidah and Islamic Thought (ISSN 2550-1775), and many others.

View on Indonesia and Pakistani Politics

As Saud has expertise on Youth and Social policy, he suggested to Government of Indonesia on Youth and political participation policies, and he also conducted similar researches in Pakistan, to include youth as the main indicator of change in the society. He introduced a new theory of Youth participation “Youth Inn” that is published and recognized by the experts and journals, which is: “Youth Inn identifies the regular participation of youth in democratic practices, social activities, student campus involvement, representation as a political agent, discussions in public spheres, family involvement in political affairs, and participation in demonstration or protests for political rights. His studies highlighted the status of youth participation in democratic activities in Pakistan. It shows, that youth have interests in political activities, such as to participate in political discussions in public spheres. In terms of participating in General elections, youth likely to participate in electoral activities, they like to wear T-shirts, donating money to the political parties, motivating others and also representing as youth political agenda in the polling stations. The novelty of his research is a new concept in the field of Sociology of Politics & Sociology of youth is ‘youth Inn’. Where the youth used to discuss local political matters with their fellows. It is to conclude from this paper make evident that research on time trends political participation among youth in Pakistan that utilize scales are highly driven by discussions in public and private spheres, indicating further issues with this sort of analysis.

Honor and Appreciations Due to his passion to change the world, he received many appreciations and honour from the civil society and personalities, few are Universitas Airlangga Indonesia- Students Ambassador to Pakistan (2019), Rozan Pakistan ‘Best Volunteer Award’ (2013), Acknowledgement by H.E Ambassador of Pakistan to Jakarta “Mr. Mohamamd Aqil Nadeem” (2018), and Acknowledgement by H.E Ambassador of Indonesia to Pakistan (2018).

Born		August 17, 1990 (age 30)

District Bhakkar, Punjab Pakistan

'''Institution  University of Airlangga, Indonesia International Islamic University, Pakistan	 Human Development Foundation, USA Rozan Pakistan Youth Parliament of Pakistan Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund'''

Field Sociology Youth, and Communication studies Sociology of Politics Gender studies

Alma mater University of Airlangga, Indonesia International Islamic University, Pakistan

Awards

Best Youngest Researcher (2020) Excellence in Research Award (2019) Best Volunteer Award (2014)