Alireza Salehi-Nejad is a social science and multidisciplinary researcher at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran. He is also the founder and former chief executive officer of Titan Incorporated.
Education
Alireza is an alumnus of Asia Pacific University and Staffordshire University Business School, graduated summa cum laude from Shahid Chamran University with a degree in Translation Studies, and pursued his postgraduate studies in British Studies and American Studies at University of Tehran.
Alireza is the recipient of multiple awards from the Office for Exceptional Talented Students, and received the Young Researcher Award and the Dean’s Endeavor Award during his studies.
His other qualifications are including a Foundation in Management Studies & Computer Science from University of Nottingham and Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering Leadership & Management from Stanford University (off-campus).
Career
Alireza is a researcher at the Cyberspace Research Policy Center, and serves on a number of boards, including as the Executive Director of the International Association of Communication in Healthcare, the Executive Committee of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace & Culture, the Ethics Committee of Linguistic Society of America, Survey Working Group of European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) and Advisory Council of the Foundation for Endangered Languages.
His other activities include serving as a Mentor for the Web of Science Academy, Associate Editor for the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Associate Editor on linguistics for De Gruyter Open, and Business Executive for Arash Plastic Ltd. He is also an honorary Mendeley Advisor, Center for Open Science Ambassador and Figshare Ambassador.
Alireza has extensively collaborated with numerous academic publishers - notably SAGE Publications, Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Center of Science & Education, Springer Nature - and scholarly journals as an editorial board member and reviewer.
Alireza serves as a mentor in Web of Science Academy, and is recognized as the Top Reviewer in Social Sciences by Publons and received the Sentinel of Science Award in 2016, and the Excellent Reviewer Award in 2017.
Alireza also instructs on academic publishing and his expertise in research integrity, research ethics, and the legal aspects of academic publishing is certified by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Clarivate, European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI), MIT Professional Education, Global Health Training Centre, Panel on Research Ethics, Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services, Texas A&M University, US Department of Health and Human Service, UNESCO, and Creative Commons.
Although Alireza’s focus is on social sciences, his research and studies include a broad range of topics in various disciplines. In addition to his contribution to the ‘culture of poverty’ and the ‘cycle of poverty’, Alireza’s research expertise is including sociolinguistics, interpersonal communication, political discourse, international relations, political behavior and medical sociology. His latest work has been published in Science, International Affairs, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, and Spinal Cord.
Alireza has scrutinized communication from a wide range of disciplines including business, linguistics, political science, and cultural studies. Believing that better communication is the key to lowering health care costs and improving patient experience, Alireza founded the International Association of Communication in Healthcare as a part of Universal Scientific Education and Research Network at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). Alireza actively advocates and optimizes the rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injury and cancer, and has collaborated with the American Academy of Communication and in Healthcare and the Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Research Center at TUMS.
Views
Quotations:
“A wise enemy is better than a fool friend.”
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“Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.”
~ Alireza Salehi Nejad, The Third World; Country or People
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“Faith without love is to be in people’s bondage. Love without faith, is to be in your own bondage.”
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“In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.”
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“The size of action has no value but its aim.”
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“There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.”
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“My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.”
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“One dies the way he lives.”
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“A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.”
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“The great souls distinguish with two things; their greater needs and their greater agony.”
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“He who knows more is more responsible.”
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“Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.”
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“Where people are not present, talking about them is either lie or ridiculous.”
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“Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.”
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“Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.”
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““Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.”
~ Alireza Salehi Nejad, The Third World; Country or People
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“Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.”
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“Truth itself is the best prudence.”
~ Alireza Salehi Nejad, The Third World; Country or People
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“Dying is also an art and just like any other art it must be learned.”
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“If you want to criticize someone, do not compare him with an imaginary creature but yourself.”
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“A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.”
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“Where love commands, the impossible concedes.”
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Personality
Alireza’s literary and artistic work, such as poetry and photography, has been published under his pseudonym, Arash Titan.
In addition to his martial arts success – that includes 3 titles in taekwondo in Fajr Junior Tournaments – Alireza founded a mountaineering club, which boasts hundreds of members from over 50 countries.