Ms Daniela Schofield

(she/her)

Overview

My PhD topic, ‘Gender and climate justice: informal street and market traders in Dar es Salaam’, seeks to provide a timely linkage between scholarship on gender and climate justice through the prism of informal livelihoods in a rapidly urbanising setting prone to climate change. Although the importance of informal trading in cities of the Global South such as Dar es Salaam has been well documented, scholarship on gendered experiences of climate impacts on informal traders and vendors is non-existent. Through my studentship I aim to advance academic understandings of the overlaps between informality and climate change while examining the implications for gender and climate equitable urban policy.

My studentship is a collaborative ESRC funded Doctoral Training Partnership and I am working closely with Equality for Growth, a Tanzanian NGO that supports the rights of female market traders in urban Tanzania.