Qudsia Shah is a Senior Research Officer for Constituency Studies. She joined the Unit in 2013. In this role, she has worked on and coordinated research projects on a wide array of themes, including Muslim spaces of worship and gathering, Ismaili religious rituals and practices, Muslim bio-medical ethics, Muslim approaches to the environment, and interfaith marriages. She has a keen research interest in climate change, on which she has presented at academic and public forums. Her forthcoming publications include two papers entitled ‘Between Expedient and Ethical: Muslim approaches to the Environment and Manghs of Hyderabad: History, Social Change and Sustainability, as well as, IsmailisAdherents of a branch of Shi’i Islam that considers Ismail, the eldest son of the Shi’i Imam Ja尪far al-廜〢diq (d. 765), as his successor. of Gilgit-Baltistan, a book project as part of Living Ismaili Traditions Series. She is also a member of the 敁珗曄部s Working Group on Climate Change and Sustainability.
Before joining 敁珗曄部, she had worked in the development sector in Pakistan with the Aga KhanA title granted by the Shah of Persia to the then Ismaili Imam in 1818 and inherited by each of his successors to the Imamate. Rural Support Programme, The First MicroFinance Bank and Save the Children. She is an alumna of the GPISH programme of the 敁珗曄部 and has two postgraduate degrees, in Economics (MSc, Quaid e Azam University) and Anthropology (MA, SOAS).
