Dr. Ishfaq Hussain Malik
- Position: Research Fellow
- Email: I.H.Malik@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 10.14 Garstang Building
- Website: Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. I am currently working on the IMAGINE project https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FX003868%2F1 which includes an interdisciplinary research team based at the Universities of the UK and Canada. My research focuses on climate change, vulnerability, adaptation, resilience, and political ecology. I am interested in the human dimensions of climate change, particularly in the areas of adaptation and resilience. My work involves documenting Indigenous knowledge, identifying risk factors, developing community-based adaptation strategies, and understanding how Arctic communities experience, perceive, and respond to climate change. My research also involves climate change and disaster studies in the Himalayas, with a focus on the recent floods in the Kashmir Valley.
Research interests
- Climate Change, vulnerability, adaptation and resilience
- Ethnography
- Indigenous communities and knowledge
- Community-based research
- Political Ecology
- Disaster Studies
- ARCWISE: Arctic Resilience, Climate Adaptation, and Indigenous Wisdom for Sustainable Ecosystems
- Impacts of cryosphere-hydrosphere change on ecosystems and livelihoods in northern Nunatsiavut, Canada (IMAGINE)
Qualifications
- PhD Geography, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India
Professional memberships
- Priestley Centre for Climate Futures