Lead supervisor:
Prof Alison Brown 
Other supervisor(s):
- Dr Margot Rubin
Start date: October 2023
Award: Collaborative
Subject Pathway:
Human Geography
Thematic Cluster:
Place, Environment and Development Cluster
In partnership with:
- Equality for Growth (EfG)
Gender and climate justice: informal street and market traders in Dar es Salaam
Although the importance of informal trading in cities of the Global South has been well documented, scholarship on gendered experiences of climate-related shocks by informal traders is lacking. Through my doctoral research, I seek to provide a timely linkage between scholarship on informal livelihoods and urban climate justice by applying a gender lens to traders’ experiences of climate-related shocks such as flooding and extreme heat.
My research will be undertaken through a location-specific case study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in collaboration with Equality for Growth, a Tanzanian NGO that supports the rights of female market traders in urban Tanzania.
Through this studentship, I hope to advance academic understandings of gendered responses to climate-related shocks and adaptations by traders and implications for gender and climate equitable urban policy.