I am a Senior Lecturer in Applied Statistics at Middlesex University Business School in London, UK. I joined Middlesex University in January 2009. I am also working as a Demographer at Centre for Research into the Older Workforce (CROW) within the Middlesex University Business School. Prior to joining Middlesex University, I have been a Research Fellow in Demography at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing (2006-2008), The University of Oxford, UK.

I am interested in supervising PhD students who wish to work in the areas related to my research interests, including

  • Demography
  • Ageing and Society
  • Population and Environmental Change
  • Public Health
  • Applied Statistics
  • Dynamics of Poverty and Vulnerability
  • Development Issues such as microcredit, community development and NGO activities

My regional specialization is in South Asia particularly in Bangladesh.

  • Professional Recognition of the Higher Education Academy, 2012, UK
  • Post Doctoral Research (Demography), 2006, University of Oxford, UK
  • PhD (Applied Statistics), 1996, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK
  • MSc (Statistics), 1987, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
  • BSc (Hons) in Statistics, 1986, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
  • Applied Statistics
  • Demography
  • Population, Development and Environmental Interactions
  • Population Ageing
  • Wellbeing in Later Life
  • Health and Social Care
  • Epidemiology and Public Health Issues
  • Reproductive Health
  • Poverty and Vulnerability
  • Microfinance
  • Development Issues
  • Business Statistics
  • Advanced Business Statistics
  • Statistical Quality Control
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Social Statistics
  • Research Methods
  • Data Analysis and Statistical Softwares
  • Demography
  • Ageing and Society

Dr. Hafiz T.A. Khan graduated in 1986 with a BSc (Hons) in Statistics from University of Chittagong in Bangladesh followed in 1987 with an MSc in Statistics also from the same institution. In 1996, he received a PhD in Applied Statistics from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK. During 2005-2006 he has conducted post-doctoral research in Gerontology at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Oxford University, UK.

Dr. Khan began his teaching career in Bangladesh as a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of Dhaka in 1991 and has worked there as full-time Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor as well as Professor in Statistics until the end of 2005. In 2006, Dr. Khan migrated to the UK under the scheme "the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP)". He has also previously worked temporarily at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore, and Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, United Kingdom.

Dr. Hafiz T.A. Khan has been awarded prestigious academic fellowships such as the Wellcome Trust Fellowship in 1999/2000 as well as the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 2005/06.

Authored Books:

  • Research Methods for Business and Social Science (J. Adams, Hafiz T. A. Khan, R. Raeside and D. White), Sage, 2nd Edition, 2013.
  • Research Methods for Graduate Business and Social Science Students (J. Adams, Hafiz T. A. Khan, R. Raeside and D. White), Sage, 2007.

Articles and Chapters in Edited Books:

  • 2012 Levels of Welfarism and Intergenerational Transfers within the Family: Evidence from the Global Ageing Survey (GLAS), (George W. Leeson and Hafiz T.A. Khan) in: Global Ageing in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications, edited by McDaniel, S. and Zimmer, Z., Ashgate Publishing Ltd, UK, ISBN: 978-1-4094-3270-8
  • 2009 Population Ageing in Bangladesh: Trends and Challenges, (Hafiz T.A. Khan), in: Aging in Asia, edited by Jason L. Powell and Ian G. Cook. Publisher: Nova Publishers New York.
  • 2009 Future Ageing in Southeast Asia: Demographic Trends, Human Capital and Health Status. (Wolfgang Lutz, Samir K.C., Hafiz T.A. Khan, Sergei Scherbov and George Leeson), in: Older Persons in Southeast Asia. edited by Evi Arifin and Aris Ananta. Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.

Referred Articles

  • 2013 Ageing and Globalization: A global analysis. Journal of Globalization Studies 4(1):150-159 (Jason L. Powell and Hafiz T.A. Khan)
  • 2013 Attitudes towards bearing the cost of care in old age across the world. Illness, Crisis and Loss 21(1):49-69 (Hafiz T.A. Khan, George Leeson, Helen Findlay)
  • 2013 The effectiveness of the microcredit programme in Bangladesh. Local Economy 28(1):85-98 (M. Twyeafur Rahman and Hafiz T.A. Khan)
  • 2012 Foucault, Social Theory and Social Work. Romanian Journal of Sociology 9(1):131-147 (Jason L. Powell and Hafiz T.A. Khan)
  • 2011 Climate change and its impacts on older adults' health in Kazakhstan. The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy 4(1):97-119 (Shahjahan H. Bhuiyan and Hafiz T.A. Khan)
  • 2010 The effect of self-rated-health on the quality of life ofolder adults across the world -Evidence from a global ageing survey "The Future of Retirement". Proceedings of the 10th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-X), Volume I, pages 45-69 (Hafiz T.A. Khan and George W. Leeson)
  • 2010 The emerging demand for elderly care in China: An analysis of trends and differentials. Asian Profile 38(2):1-7 (Pan Jinhong and Hafiz T.A. Khan)
  • 2010 Attitudes Towards Bearing the Cost of Care in Later Life: Evidence from the HSBC Global Ageing Study on the Future of Retirement, Middlesex University Discussion Paper Series #138, March (Hafiz T.A. Khan & George Leeson)
  • 2010 Mixtures Density Estimation in Lifetime Data analysis: An Application of Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation Technique. Journal of Statistics and Management Systems 13(3):605-615, May (Ahmed Hossain and Hafiz T.A. Khan)
  • 2010 Insights for Singapore’s Re-employment Legislation: Evidence from the Future of Retirement Survey 2006. Middlesex University Discussion Paper Series #141, April (Helen Ko and Hafiz T.A. Khan)
  • 2009 Age and gender differences in grandchildrens relations with their maternal grandfathers and grandfathers. Oxford Working Paper Series 209, February (Mann, R., Hafiz T.A. Khan and Leeson, G.W.)
  • 2009 Self management of health-behaviors among older and younger workers with chronic illness. Patient Education and Counseling 77(1):109-115 (F. Munir, Hafiz T.A. Khan, J. Yarker, C. Haslam, H. Long, M. Bains and K. Kalawsky)
  • 2009 Health Behaviours Among Older and Younger Workers with Chronic Illness. Oxford Working Paper series 109, January (F. Munir, Hafiz T.A. Khan, J. Yarker, C. Haslam, M. Bains and K. Kalawsky)
  • 2008 Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh: Evidence from a National Survey. Asian Profile 36 (3):319-327, June (Hafiz T.A. Khan and E.M.N. Kalam)
  • 2008 The Ageing Scottish Population: Trends, Consequences and Responses. Canadian Studies in Population 35(2):291-310, September (R. Raeside and Hafiz T.A. Khan)
  • 2008 How Well Did Past UN Population Projections Anticipate Demographic Trends in Six Southeast Asian Countries?Asian Population Studies 4(1):77-95 March (Hafiz T.A. Khan and Wolfgang Lutz)
  • 2007 Risk Factors of Coronary Heart Disease. Indian Heart Journal 59(4):147-151 (A. Hossain and Hafiz T.A. Khan)
  • 2007 Bayesian Analysis of Three-Way ANOVA Model and a Diagnostic Test for the Convergence of the Estimation. Journal of Statistics and Management Systems 10(1):153-160 (A. Hossain and Hafiz T.A. Khan)

Academic / Professional Membership:

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK
  • The UK Radical Statistics Group
  • Global Development Network (GDN)
  • Asian Population Association
  • Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS)
  • Bangladesh Statistical Association

Links with Partner/Business Organisations:

  • Project Team Member, Age Diversity at Workplace (Middlesex University)
  • Demographer, Centre for Research into the Older Workforce (CROW)
  • Trustee, Sir William Beveridge Foundation, London, UK
  • Trustee, Mojlish Homecare Services, East London, UK
  • Community Governor, The Cherwell School, Oxfordshire, UK
  • Multi-Community Research Initiative (MCRI), Oxfordshire, UK

Research Partnerships with the Following Organisations:

  • Professor Robert Raeside, Professor of Applied Statistics, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
  • Dr. George W. Leeson, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK
  • Dr. Fehmidah Munir, Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
  • Dr. Ikuko Sugawara, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Dr. Ahmed Hossain, McMaster University, Canada

Languages spoken

Bengali (native)