Gail Jennings is a research consultant (social/behavioural scientist). Her work focuses on programme and policy evaluation, as well as the gender, equity & social inclusion (GESI) possibilities and impacts of policy, strategy, and transportation interventions; decision-making around travel choices and public transport interventions and investments; walking, cycling, and user needs; and strategies for shifting travel behaviour to more sustainable modes and patterns.
She has published on gender and social inclusion; cycling activism and behaviours; walking; and transport justice, poverty, and redress in the South African context.
She has a PhD (March 2025) from the Centre for Transport Studies, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Cape Town; certificates in instructional design, teaching with technology, and programme monitoring & evaluation, University of Cape Town; a Masters in Linguistics (social science, transport behaviour change communication), Stellenbosch University; and coursework completed toward a Masters in Public Health (UCT). She is a registered chartered communication professional with the Public Relations Institute of South Africa.
Selected publications or texts
You’ll find my publications here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gail-Jennings
Selected speaking engagements
Gail has presented and facilitated about women and transport globally, at university level as well as at conferences, workshops, and other platforms.
Awards and recognitions
In 2021 her research paper ‘Women were put on the back-end: Covid-19 mobility constraints and their lessons and implications for gender-equity in SSA’, with co-author Emma Arogundade, was awarded best research paper at the Southern African Transport Conference.
In 2022 she was awarded funding by VREF to undertake a policy review of gender and transport policy in Sub-Saharan Africa.