PhD Research

Gender and climate justice: informal street and market traders in Dar es Salaam

My PhD seeks to address a current disconnect in urban informality, gender, and climate justice scholarship. To do so, I am working in collaboration with Equality for Growth a Tanzanian NGO that supports the rights of female market traders in urban Tanzania through a location-specific case in Dar es Salaam. I aim to advance academic understandings of gendered responses to climate-related shocks and adaptations by traders and implications for gender and climate equitable urban policy. My PhD work is supported by a collaborative Doctoral Training Partnership between Cardiff University (School of Geography and Planning) and Equality for Growth funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.