Khadija Anjum is a Liu Scholar and a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning and a recipient of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Her interdisciplinary research relies on quantitative and qualitative methods approaches to gain planning and policy insights for food security amid high food prices and other sustainability challenges. Her research to date has focused primarily on Pakistan, and other lower-middle income Global South countries, particularly those in South Asia.
Khadija’s professional career has included roles in the development and academic sectors. She holds Masters’ degrees in Economics and Regional Planning, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics. Khadija lives in Vancouver and in her spare time, she enjoys exploring the city and reading up on fashion.
Khadija’s Liu Scholars project is mentored by Dr. Matias Margulis (SPPGA; Faculty of Land and Food Systems). The project focuses on studying how the policy instruments propounded by the Community and Regional Planning (CRP) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) disciplines can importantly complement the sociocultural, technological, and policy innovations put forth for sustainable food systems reform by the more traditional disciplinary vantage points on this subject.
Research interests: Sustainable Food Systems, Social Network Analysis, Regional Planning, Intersectionality