Dr Ratan Kumar Roy, Assistant Professor at the School of General Education, has been awarded the Inaugural Charles Wallace Bangladesh Trust Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2023. Dr Roy is going to spend three months from January to April 2023 at the South Asia Centre, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), as a visiting fellow. During this period, he is going to conduct research on “Digitalization, Online Activism and Civic Politics in Contemporary Bangladesh”. His project aims to investigate digital politics and social media activism in Bangladesh while exploring the rumour culture, spread of fake news and creation of hype via social networking sites (SNS) by the citizens. The primary objective of his research is to capture the complex matrix of individual actions and structural formations in relation to digital media politics. As part of his postdoctoral research, Dr Roy will draw a trajectory of the formation of civil society in Bangladesh vis-à-vis the contribution of online activism in shaping the civic politics in contemporary Bangladesh.