Bangladeshi ISLM Professional Dr. Md. Mukhlesur Rahman receives double PhD

Dr. Md. Mukhlesur Rahman has received his second PhD in Knowledge Management area from the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan. Dr. Mukhles obtained this degree after fulfilment of a series of criteria of JAIST which includes compilation of course work, conducting a minor research project, the participation of international conferences, publishing research findings in international journals, writing up a dissertation, and defending the dissertation in several stages.

Dr. Mukhles recorded his research finding in the dissertation entitled ‘Resource integration for value co-creation in archival service ecosystem’ under the supervision of Dr. Kunio Shirahada, Associate Professor, School of Knowledge Science, JAIST. In the dissertation, Dr. Mukhles demonstrated archive management strategies from service science and value co-creation point of view where he proved that archive centre along cannot handle changing information-seeking behaviour of users, the expectation of stakeholders and ever-changing nature of technologies. Rather archive centre should integrate operant resources (skills and knowledge) from different actors (users, stakeholders, and archive staff) in a favourable co-creation platform for maximizing archival value. Accordingly, he developed an archival value co-creation model for prefectures, city, municipal and academic archive centres in Japan combining actors, resources and co-creation platform. The entire research activities have been examined by Professor Dr. Youji Kohda, Dean, School of Knowledge Science, JAIST, Japan; Professor Masao Takaku, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Professor Nam Van Huynh, Vietnam; and Professor Kim Eunyoung, Korea.

Dr. Mukhles did his minor research project on ‘Value proposition framework in scholarly communication: a case of open access publications in academia’ under the supervision of Dr. Naoshi Uchihira, Professor, School of Knowledge Science, JAIST, and Professor Dr. Md. Shiful Islam, Department of Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. During the course work, Dr. Mukhles enriched his competency on Knowledge Management, Data Analytics, Business Management, Research Methodology, Innovation Management, etc. and earned 27 credits. During the study, Dr. Mukhles also served as a teaching assistant for the courses of ‘Introduction to Knowledge Science’, ‘Theory of Knowledge Management’, ‘Innovation Theory and Methodology for Total Capability Development’, ‘Research Methodology’ etc. including research assistant in some laboratory projects.

Earlier in 2017, Dr. Mukhles completed his PhD for his dissertation on ‘Design and Development of a National Digital Repository System for Bangladesh’ under the supervision of Professor Dr. Muhammad Mezbah-ul-Islam, Department of Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He also did his Bachelor (BA Honours), Master, and Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and served Asian University, and Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB).

At present Dr. Mukhles is involved with teaching ‘Theory of Knowledge (ToK)’, and ‘Research Methodology (Extended Essay)’ for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) student as well as supervising institution library activities in an international school at Tokyo, Japan. His wife Safinoor Sagorika is a Doctoral Candidate in the School of Information Science, JAIST, and his son Md. Miraj Mahmood is a High School student in Ishikawa, Japan.