Ibrahim Wahab
About Ibrahim Wahab
Research interests: I am a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. I am a human geographer by training, with interests and competencies in rural development, smallholder livelihoods, agrarian transformation, poverty analysis, and more recently climate-related migration and adaptation strategies and resilience, using an interdisciplinary approach in terms of research methods and perspectives. In my research so far, I have applied qualitative and quantitative methods as well as spatial perspective using a variety of remote sensing and GIS applications. I hold a Master’s degree in Development Geography from the University of Oslo, and Ph.D in Social and Economic Geography from Lund University. My doctoral dissertation, which was defended in 2020, sought to come to grips with the age-old conundrum of smallholder agricultural productivity gaps on rainfed family farms in sub-Saharan Africa. Since my doctoral education, I have participated in a couple of research projects, including the Ghana Workstream of the UK’s Department for International Development-funded research project on pathways to agricultural commercialisation in sub-Saharan Africa based at the University of Ghana, Legon. I also worked as postdoctoral researcher on the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond-funded Mixed Methods research project on combining traditional household surveys with satellite imagery and machine learning in human development studies.
Ongoing research: Presently, at the School of Global Studies, I work as postdoctoral researcher on the CLIMIG research project which aims to explore how climate change affects patterns of mobility in three of the world’s most populated mountainous regions: the Ethiopian Highlands, the Peruvian Andes, and the Nepalese Himalayas. Though my work on the project focuses on the quantitative aspects of the study across the three country teams, I am also an integral member of the Ethiopian Team.
Teaching: My teaching responsibilities at SGS is mainly research methodology related. At the first Cycle level, I have been involved in the Methods in Global Studies course on which I give lectures on Introduction to Quantitative Methods, Survey Techniques, and Quantitative Data Analysis. At the Second Cycle level, I have been involved in teaching on the Methods in Practice – Human Rights through which I gave lectures on Univariate and Bivariate Analyses. I also co-convened and taught on the Global Studies Research Design and Methods course for the 2024/2025 academic year. I currently supervise master’s theses on the Global Studies and Human Rights programmes.