Farhana Rahman is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Prior to this, she was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo and a Non-Residential Fellow at the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at the University of Auckland. Farhana received her PhD from Cambridge University's Centre for Gender Studies, funded by the Cambridge International Trust, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund, amongst others.