29 April 2024
In October 2023, UWC and MMICA hosted the International Symposium on Migration and Mobilities in partnership with the “Migration and Food Security in The Global South: Interactions, Impacts, and Remedies (MiFOOD Network)”.
29 April 2024
In March 2024, at the recent inaugural African Transport Research Conference, Bulelani Maskiti and other team members from UWC, Durham University, and Transaid UK, presented research findings from the 2023 VREF-funded project, “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.”
29 April 2024
Prof Bradley Rink and project colleagues from the University of Cape Town, the Technical University Dortmund (Germany) and the Federal University ABC (Brazil) who are part of the Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for Social Sciences and Humanities funded project “Impact of COVID19 on livelihoods, mobility and accessibility of marginalised groups” (ICOLMA) took part in the third project workshop in São Paulo, Brazil.
29 April 2024
Building from the 2023 VREF-funded project, Prof Bradley Rink along with an international team of scholars and activists from UWC, University of Durham (UK) and Transaid (UK) were awarded funding for 2024 from the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) for a one-year project entitled “Investigating Young men’s experiences of walking in secondary cities: A comparative study of walking in South Africa and the United Kingdom.”
20 September 2022
In March, UWC hosted a visit by group of postgraduate students and team members from the International Planning Studies Research Group at TU Dortmund, Germany. The visit formed part of a workshop for the “ICOLMA” project- The Impact of COVID -19 on Livelihoods, Mobility and Accessibility of Marginalized Groups.