Outputs (178)

Young men’s daily mobility needs and practices in two low income neighbourhoods of Cape Town: reflections on first mile experiences, using an innovative community peer research methodology (2025)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Rink, B., Maskiti, B., Clark, S., & Barber, C. (2025). Young men’s daily mobility needs and practices in two low income neighbourhoods of Cape Town: reflections on first mile experiences, using an innovative community peer research methodology. African Transport Studies, 3, Article 100033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aftran.2025.100033

Understanding how young men navigate their journeys is important in the context of improving safe mobility for all, especially for those resident in city neighbourhoods with high rates of crime and poverty. Over the past decade, knowledge has been ac... Read More about Young men’s daily mobility needs and practices in two low income neighbourhoods of Cape Town: reflections on first mile experiences, using an innovative community peer research methodology.

A Curated Walk with Peer Researchers and their Communities: Engaging a Research Journey Toward Meaningful Impact (2025)
Journal Article
Rink, B., Porter, G., Maskiti, B., Clark, S., & Barber, C. (2025). A Curated Walk with Peer Researchers and their Communities: Engaging a Research Journey Toward Meaningful Impact. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v18i1.9217

As a collective of peer researchers, scholars and members of a non-profit organisation, we have come together to share a curated walk through low-income communities in Cape Town and London. We do so with the intent of exploring the embodied and socia... Read More about A Curated Walk with Peer Researchers and their Communities: Engaging a Research Journey Toward Meaningful Impact.

Young women’s travel safety and the journey to work: reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action) (2025)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P. B., Dungey, C., Maskiti, B., de Lannoy, A., Clark, S., Ahmad, H., & Yahaya, M. J. (2025). Young women’s travel safety and the journey to work: reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action). Journal of Transport Geography, 123, Article 104109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2024.104109

The relationship between women's everyday lived travel experiences as daily commuters and their employment history and potential has not been adequately researched and documented in African contexts. This multidisciplinary study, utilising an innovat... Read More about Young women’s travel safety and the journey to work: reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action).

Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C., Han, S., Keskes, H., & Porter, G. (2024). Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis. Journal of Gender Studies, 33(3), 341-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2258075

Employment in the transport sector has historically proven to be male-dominated, even in countries like Tunisia which have evidenced public policy narratives and legal employment frameworks promoting gender equality. This paper presented the findings... Read More about Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis.

The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P. B., Han, S., Dungey, C., …Ambrosini, S. (2023). The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Journal of Transport Geography, 112, Article 103695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103695

This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted 2019–2022 in three quite diverse city regions - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis - to understand women's lived experiences of work in the road transport sector. The strength of connection between male ide... Read More about The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis.

‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C., Porter, G., Aouidet, H., Dungey, C., Han, S., Houiji, R., Jlassi, M., Keskes, H., Mansour, H., Nasser, W., Riahi, H., Riahi, S., & Zaghoud, H. (2023). ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis. Geoforum, 142, Article 103753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103753

Drawing on an innovative peer researcher method, this paper uses mobility diaries and in-transit interviews to examine the everyday travel experiences of women from socio-economically marginalised neighbourhoods in metropolitan Grand Tunis. It situat... Read More about ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis.

Peer research, power and ethics: Navigating participatory research in an Africa-focused mobilities study before and during Covid-19 (2023)
Book Chapter
Porter, G., Dungey, C., Akoshi, M., Bullus, P., Houiji, R., Matomane, S., …Usman, U. (2023). Peer research, power and ethics: Navigating participatory research in an Africa-focused mobilities study before and during Covid-19. In B. Percy-Smith, N. P. Thomas, C. O'Kane, & A. T. Imoh (Eds.), A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: Conversations for Transformational Change. (2nd Edition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003367758

This paper reflects on the transformative potential of a peer research project that was concerned with women’s access to travel in low-income neighbourhoods in three African cities – Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. For the young unemployed women who part... Read More about Peer research, power and ethics: Navigating participatory research in an Africa-focused mobilities study before and during Covid-19.

Dangers in the Third Place: Walking, Public Transport and the Experiences of Young Girls in Cape Town and Abuja (2023)
Book Chapter
Dungey, C. E., Ahmad, H., Yahaya, J. M., Adamu, F., Dayil, P. B., De Lannoy, A., & Porter, G. (2023). Dangers in the Third Place: Walking, Public Transport and the Experiences of Young Girls in Cape Town and Abuja. In Z. Moody, A. Berchtold-Sedooka, S. Camponovo, P. D. Jaffé, & F. Darbellay (Eds.), School Journey as a Third Place: Theories, Methods and Experiences Around The World. Anthem Press

Experiences of Women Workers in the African Road Transport Sector (2022)
Book Chapter
Porter, G., & Omwega, N. (2022). Experiences of Women Workers in the African Road Transport Sector. In T. Wright, L. Budd, & S. Ison (Eds.), Women, Work and Transport (55-69). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2044-994120220000016005

Male identity and motor-mobility are deeply intertwined across much of the globe but nowhere is this relationship more strongly in evidence than in Africa. On the African continent, road transport work has always appeared, in essence, to be a masculi... Read More about Experiences of Women Workers in the African Road Transport Sector.

Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities (2022)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E. C., Adamu, F., Delannoy, A., & Dungey, C. (2023). Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities. Mobilities, 18(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2039561

This paper draws principally from COVID-19 diaries written by young women whom we had previously trained as peer researchers in a mobility study of low-income neighbourhoods in Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Some live with parents or older extended fami... Read More about Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities.