Towhidul Islam Khan
Dr Towhidul Islam Khan
Teaching Fellow in Creative and Media Enterprise
Email: towhid.khan.1@warwick.ac.uk
Room FAB 1.58 Faculty of Arts Building
About
I am a Teaching Fellow in Creative and Media Enterprise – with research covering community, migration, culture, and happiness.
I completed my PhD in Cultural Policy Studies at CMPS, funded by Warwick’s Chancellor’s International Scholarship; as well completing an MA in Arts, Enterprise and Development with distinction at the Centre. I also hold a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Research project
My past research has focused on how migrants experience happiness in a new cultural setting, specifically investigating how these experiences are influenced by the values and rituals that were inculcated in the culture they are from.
Future research interests include the role of culture in post-migration experiences.
Teaching
I teach across different MAs at the Centre. In the past, I have led modules including International Cultural Policy, Project Management for Cultural Enterprise, Culture in Global Sustainable Development, and Creativity and Enterprise.
Awards
Winner of Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) 2023 for Postgraduates who teach in Arts faculty
Winner of the CCMPS Award for the best overall marks among all PGT courses in 2016-17
Publications
Kaapa, P., Khan, T.I. (2024). The Collective Selfie: The Rhetoric of Planetary Happiness in Celebrity Environmental Activism. In: Magalhães, L., Ferreira Lopes, M.J., Nobre, B., Onofre Pinto, J.C. (eds) Humanistic Perspectives in Happiness Research. Happiness Studies Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38600-8_8
Khan, T. I. (2018) The Implicit Cultural Policies of US Late-night Comedy Shows. Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies, 9(1), 57-67.
Conferences and presentations
'The happiness scaffolding for migrants', Happiness in Turbulent Times: Latest Developments in Wellbeing Research. Organised by British Sociological Association Happiness Study Group, 12 July 2023.
‘Mobility of happiness’, China-UK Humanities Alliance Conference. Organised by Exeter University, 20 May 2021.
‘Cultural consequences of crossing borders’, International Conference on Refugees in the Public Imagination: Discourse on (Dis)location and (Dis)placement. Organised by University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, 23 December 2018.