Dr. Ayesha Siddiqi
University of Cambridge
Expertise on
Countries: Pakistan
Policy Areas & Themes: Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Violence
Bio
Ayesha is a postcolonial geographer who has worked with communities affected by floods and typhoons to understand how disaster risks are produced and lived in marginalised and vulnerable societies.
special research expertise on
Social contracts and political transformations
Lived experience of disasters in areas affected by conflict and insurgency
Postcolonial epistemologies and worldviews on disasters
Engagement experience includes
Secondment to the UK’s Houses of Parliament
Authoring reports for United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Knowledge exchange with with NATO and MoD
Read a sample of Ayesha’s research outputs
Siddiqi, A., Peters, K., & Zulver, J. (2019). ‘Doble afectación’: living with disasters and conflict in Colombia. ODI Report: When disasters and conflict collide: uncovering the truth.
Siddiqi, A., & Peters, K. (2019). Disaster risk reduction in contexts of fragility and armed conflict: a review of emerging evidence challenges assumptions. Contributing paper to Global Assessment Report on disaster risk reduction 2019 (GAR19).
Research on Pakistan floods covered by Vox media (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bVGuXrd5mg&t=6s
