Gina Porter

Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK

Gina has been a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK.
She has extensive experience of leading interdisciplinary research on everyday mobility
practices among vulnerable groups in diverse African contexts, rural and urban
(including recent research on impacts of Covid-19 in African cities). Her research is
typically conducted in close partnership with a diversity of local stakeholders, and
incorporates a peer research method with training of community members as
co-investigators.