Malaika Mikaelsson

Biography

Malaika Mikaelsson is a PhD student at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research focuses on how geopolitical changes might create opportunities for or threats to the capacity of Pacific Small Island Developing States to cope with climate change, and/how these changes spur transformation towards sustainable development. Drawing on Indigenous research methods and knowledge, her research will further look at how stakeholders in these countries make sense of environmental and political changes, and how these changes influence their efforts to achieve the SDGs.