29 April 2024

VREF project presentation at the African Transport Research Conference in Cape Town

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

Funding award for 2024 from the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF)

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.”