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Gina Porter is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, particularly in transportation and urban studies. Their research integrates multiple subfields including transportation, sociology and political science, general health professions, political science and international relations, and urban studies.

Their recent publications focus on themes such as women's mobility, transport accessibility, social responsibility, and urban transport challenges in African cities and beyond. Notable papers include:

  • "Women's mobility and transport in the peripheries of three African cities: Reflecting on early impacts of COVID-19" (2021, Transport Policy)
  • "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, Mobilities)
  • "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 of Transport Geography)

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Gina Porter include Claire Dungey, Emma C. Murphy, Fatima Adamu, Plangsat Bitrus Dayil, and Ariane De Lannoy. The collaborations reflect a network of scholars involved in shared interests around mobility, transport, and social dimensions of urban environments.

Publication venues where Porter's work appears most frequently are:

  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Transport Policy
  • Mobilities
  • Geoforum
  • Journal of Gender Studies

The main subjects of Porter's work center on:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Migration and Exile Studies

These research directions emphasize the intersections between transport systems, societal challenges, and mobility justice, often contextualized within African urban settings. The work contributes to understanding how transport infrastructure and social factors influence access, exclusion, and security, especially for vulnerable groups such as women.

Best Publications

  • Comparing Contracts: An Evaluation of Contract Farming Schemes in Africa

    Gina Porter;Kevin Phillips-Howard✠

  • Participatory GIS: opportunity or oxymoron?

    Jo Abbot;Robert Chambers;Christine Dunn;Trevor Harris

  • Living in a Walking World: Rural Mobility and Social Equity Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Gina Porter

  • Knowledge, power and development agendas: NGOs north and south

    E Mawdsley;JG Townsend;G Porter;P Oakley

  • The role of the transnational community of non-government organizations: governance or poverty reduction?

    Janet G. Townsend;Gina Porter;Emma Mawdsley

  • Youth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study

    Gina Porter;Kate R. Hampshire;Albert Abane;Alister Munthali

  • Informal m-health : how are young people using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa?

    Kate Hampshire;Gina Porter;Samuel Asiedu Owusu;Simon Mariwah

  • Creating Spaces of Resistance: Development NGOs and their Clients in Ghana, India and Mexico

    Janet G Townsend;Gina Porter;Emma Mawdsley

  • ‘I think a woman who travels a lot is befriending other men and that's why she travels’: mobility constraints and their implications for rural women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa

    Gina Porter

  • Mobile Phones and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Youth Practice to Public Policy

    Gina Porter;Kate Hampshire;James Milner;Alister C. Munthali

  • Trust, accountability, and face-to-face interaction in North–South NGO relations

    Emma Mawdsley;Janet G. Townsend;Gina Porter

  • Transport Services and Their Impact on Poverty and Growth in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Recent Research and Future Research Needs

    Gina Porter

  • NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana:

    Gina Porter

  • Linkages between Livelihood Opportunities and Refugee–Host Relations: Learning from the Experiences of Liberian Camp-based Refugees in Ghana

    Gina Porter;Kate Hampshire;Peter Kyei;Michael Adjaloo

  • Moving young lives: Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa

    Gina Porter;Kate Hampshire;Albert Abane;Elsbeth Robson

  • Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school

    Gina Porter;Kate Hampshire;Albert Abane;Alister Munthali

  • Mobile Phones, Livelihoods and the Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review and Prospect

    Gina Porter

  • Market institutions, trust and norms: exploring moral economies in Nigerian food systems.

    Fergus Lyon;Gina Porter

  • Mobility, education and livelihood trajectories for young people in rural Ghana: a gender perspective

    Gina Porter;Kate Hampshire;Albert Abane;Augustine Tanle

  • Children as Research Collaborators: Issues and Reflections from a Mobility Study in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Gina Porter;Kate Hampshire;Michael Bourdillon;Elsbeth Robson

  • Transport services and their impact on poverty and growth in rural sub-Saharan Africa : Literature review. Report to the Africa Community Access Programme, London.

    G. Porter

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Lucas
Karen Lucas University of Manchester
Robin Kearns
Robin Kearns University of Auckland
Ernestina Coast
Ernestina Coast London School of Economics and Political Science
Stephen Devereux
Stephen Devereux Institute of Development Studies
Etienne Nel
Etienne Nel University of Otago
Karen Witten
Karen Witten Massey University

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