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TRANSPORT AND SUSTAINABILITY - VOLUME 16

WOMEN, WORK AND TRANSPORT

EDITED BY

TESSA WRIGHT

Queen Mary University of London, UK

LUCY BUDD

De Montfort University, UK

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STEPHEN ISON

De Montfort University, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Editors

Tessa Wright is a Professor of Employment Relations and the Co-director of the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, School of Business and Management, at Queen Mary University of London. She has researched and written widely on equality at work, with a focus on gender, sexuality and intersectionality, in particular in male-dominated sectors including transport, construction and the fire service. She is the author of Gender and Sexuality in Male-dominated Occupations: Women Workers in Construction and Transport (2016) published by Palgrave Macmillan. Her research on gender and transport includes a report for the International Transport Workers Federation on the Future of Work for Women in Public Transport and guidance and training for the Transport Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific on incorporating gender into transport project proposals.

Lucy Budd is a Human Geographer and a Professor of Air Transport Management at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, UK. She is an Editor of Research in Transportation Business and Management and Book Series Editor (with Stephen Ison) of Elsevier’s Contemporary Issues in Air Transport. Her research addresses many aspects of airline and airport policy and operations, including sustainability, business models, air transport accessibility and gender. She has published over 100 papers and edited 14 books in the area of air transport management.

Stephen Ison is a Professor of Air Transport Policy within Leicester Castle Business School at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has published widely in the area of economics and transport policy, including transport and sustainability, regulation and deregulation, the growth in low cost carriers, airport ground access, ageing and gender. He has edited, authored or co-authored 20 books, and published over 130 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the World Conference on Transport Research, Editor of the journal Research in Transportation Business and Management (Elsevier) and Book Series Editor of Transport and Sustainability (Emerald).

About the Authors

Mostak Ahamed is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Finance at the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Sussex, UK. He holds a PhD in Business and Management from Queen Mary University of London. The research questions that he addresses are motivated by and engaged with contemporary policy issues. His recent papers appeared in the Journal of Banking and Finance, World Development and British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Nihan Akyelken is an Associate Professor in the Sustainable Urban Development Programme in the OUDCE. Her work sits at the intersection of economic and social geography and focusses on mobility of people and goods, infrastructure, work and labour.

Amarachi Amaugo is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM) and Organisational Behaviour at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester. She is a Member of the CIPD and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is the Programme Leader for the CIPD-accredited MSc HRM programme. Her PhD was on International HRM and Comparative HRM; she has undertaken a number of projects exploring female leadership; and in the area of workplace bullying and the transfer of HRM practices of MNCs from emerging countries to developing countries. She has published articles relating to HRM and has contributed edited book chapters.

Maria Attard is the Head of Geography and the Director of the Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the University of Malta. She is the Co-editor of Research in Transportation Business and Management, an Associate Editor of Case Studies on Transport Policy and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Transport Geography. Between 2002 and 2008 she was a Consultant to Malta’s government and helped develop the first white paper on transport policy (2004) and implement the 2006 Valletta Strategy including park-and-ride, pedestrianisation and road pricing (2007). She also supported the planning for the 2011 public transport reform. She sits on the Steering Committee of the WCTR and is a Cluster Co-chair for NECTAR.

Alex Bennett is a Public Affairs and PR executive for JFG communications, with excellent experience in stakeholder engagement, research and writing. He has an Undergraduate degree in History and Politics and a Master’s degree in Political Theory, both of which were received from the University of Sheffield. He is interested in all aspects of transport policy, particular decarbonisation and the role government policy will play in reducing emissions from the transport industry.

Jennifer Bonham is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with the Creative Unit at the University of South Australia. Her research focusses on gender and cycling. She led the multi-partner Australia Research Council funded project ‘Cycle Aware: Driving with Bikes’ and her publications include the co-edited volume Cycling Futures. She is a Councillor for the City of Unley where increasing cycling is a priority.

Hazel Conley is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research focusses on the State as employer and legislator and on discrimination and inequality in the workplace, particularly in relation to the development and effectiveness of legal interventions. She has undertaken critical research on gendered pay inequality and the concepts of multiple discrimination and intersectionality. She is a Co-editor of The Gender Pay Gap and Social Partnership in Europe: Findings from ‘Close the Deal, Fill the Gap’ (2018) and is a Co-author of Gender Equality in Public Services: Chasing the Dream (2014).

Loukas Dimitriou is the Head of the Lab for Transport Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus. His academic and professional activities relate to the analysis of travel demand, behavioural analytics, the use of advanced methods and techniques for optimising transportation systems’ design and operations. He has an active involvement in various national and international bodies related to transport policy initiatives and publishes regularly in conferences and journals related to areas of his expertise.

Stephanie Douglas is a Professor in the Management and Technology Department with the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University College of Business. She teaches courses in leadership, organisational resilience, decision-making and leadership communication. Her research focusses on organisational effectiveness, systemic leadership development, workplace and employee resilience, aviation resilience, employee engagement and human capital management strategy. She also serves as an organisation development consultant focussed on supporting strategies for leveraging human capital and improving organisational effectiveness. She has supported non-profit organisations, military bases and aviation firms in improving the overall workplace and employee resilience.

Susan Durbin is a Professor of Human Resource Management, at the Business School, University of the West of England. She specialises in women’s non-traditional employment in male-dominated industries, including commercial pilots, scientists, engineers and senior managers. She is a Co-founder of the alta mentoring scheme, a bespoke industry-wide mentoring programme designed for women/by women, in the aviation and aerospace industry. She has published her work in a number of leading academic journals and is the author of Women Who Succeed: Strangers in Paradise? (2015) published by Palgrave Macmillan. She works with organisations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, to improve gender equality and mentoring support for women. She is a member of the Women in Aviation and Aerospace Women’s Committee and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Jodi Evans is the Women Transport Workers and Gender Equality Officer at the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). She leads on the gender strategy and work programme for the ITF. Her core priorities include equal access to decent work for women including ending gender-based occupational segregation and ending violence against women transport workers. She has been an activist and leader in the movement for 27 years.

Colm Fearon is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham with responsibility for postgraduate course development. He was previously at Canterbury Christ Church University and Queen’s University Belfast. His varied research interests include: strategic evaluation of inter-organisational projects in the supply chain, leadership and techno-change, social entrepreneurship, expectations management as part of strategy making and learning in higher education.

Jo Field is the award-winning Founder and Chief Executive of JFG Communications, and a Public Affairs Professional specialising in transport and infrastructure. She is a Chartered Public Relations Practitioner and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation. She has a Master’s degree in Social Science Research Methods and almost 20 years of experience engaging stakeholders and leading campaigns to inform public policy development. Before setting up JFG Communications, she worked at Transport for London, where she built and led the company’s award-winning stakeholder engagement team for almost a decade, engaging stakeholders to inform TfL’s public policy development and securing stakeholder support for London’s transport infrastructure and the funding to deliver it. As the President of Women in Transport, she is passionate about addressing women’s under-representation in the transport workforce. She has secured cross-party support for the issue and worked with parliamentarians to set up the first ever All-Party Parliamentary Group for Women in Transport. She was named among the top 100 most influential women in Westminster in 2020 and 2022.

Jocelyn Finniear is Associate Professor and head of People and Organisation in the School of Management, Swansea University. She is a qualitative researcher who focusses on experiences of work including identity and flexibility. She has published research on psychological contracts, employee engagement and identity, is the recipient of British Academy Grant funding and has contributed to a number of commissioned research projects for Welsh Government and ACAS Wales.

Marie Grasmeier studied nautical science, cultural research and gender studies and completed her Doctoral thesis about occupational culture and occupational identities of seafarers in the global merchant fleet at the University of Bremen, Germany. She currently works for a maritime search and rescue charity organisation in the field of maritime education and training and technical management. She also teaches courses in qualitative methods of cultural research and ethnography.

Mrinalini Greedharry is an Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Laurentian University, Canada. Her research focusses on postcolonial theory and histories of colonialism in diverse contexts, from literature to management and organisation studies. She is the author of Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis (2008), as well as chapters in edited collections such as Racial Dimensions of Life-Writing (2022), Subaltern Women’s Narratives (2021) and Organization 2666 (2020). Currently, she is working on a project that explores how the practices and organisation of literary studies in universities engender postcolonial subjects.

Hebba Haddad is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Psychology at the University of East London (UEL) having previously conducted research at the University of the West of England, Imperial College London and Kings College London. She leads the BSc (Hons) Environmental Psychology programme in the School of Psychology and conducts research within UEL’s Sustainability Research Institute. She has over 15 years research experience in academia, applying behavioural and social sciences to better understand the psychological and social dimensions of real-life situations, particularly in the domains of transport and the environment. She is experienced in both qualitative and quantitative research techniques, employing a mixed methods approach to data collection and analysis. She often works on multi-disciplinary research projects and connects research, policy and practice. Most recently, she conducted the survey research within the APPG White Paper for Women in Transport in March 2021.

Geraint Harvey is the DANCAP Private Equity Chair and Professor of Human Organisation at the DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies, Western University, Canada. His research is focussed on the employment relationship with a particular emphasis on precarious work and precarious worker representation. His research has been funded by the European Commission, the International Labour Organisation and the International Transport Worker’s Federation. His analysis has been published in a variety of media and presented to the European Parliament.

Debbie Hopkins is an Associate Professor in Human Geography jointly appointed between the Sustainable Urban Development Programme in the Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and the School of Geography and the Environment, both at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research is broadly concerned with low-carbon mobility transitions, and mobile labour, particularly in relation to freight and logistics.

Anne Kamau, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya. She is a medical sociologist with vast research and teaching experience in health, transport and development. she has been involved in research on social protection for informal sector workers, socially just public transport, the future of work for women in public transport and on provision of childcare facilities for informal sector working mothers. Her recent publications include book chapters focussing on informal transport worker organisations and social protection provision in Kenya, ‘Is Kenya’s Public Transport Socially Just’, and social protection among women small-scale traders in Kenya.

Momoko Kitada is a former seafarer and Associate Professor in Maritime Education and Training at World Maritime University, Sweden. She has been researching gender issues in the maritime and ocean sectors for 16 years and published edited books, book chapters and research articles, including Maritime Women: Global Leadership (2015). She works closely with UN Organizations, by assisting as a gender focal point for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to promote gender equality in the maritime sector. She is a co-principal investigator of the programme, ‘Empowering Women for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development’, endorsed by IOC-UNESCO. She also works as a Participatory Gender Audit Facilitator, certified by the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO) and assists gender mainstreaming in audited organisations.

Barbara Koth is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Sustainable Infrastructure and Resource Management research concentration (STEM) at the University of South Australia. Prior to academic positions at UniSA and the University of Minnesota (USA), she was an Ecotourism and Park Planning Consultant with international development organisations such as the World Bank (Tanzania), USAID (Ghana) and the Fulbright Foundation (Thailand). Her research spans cycling, tourism and, more recently, eco-grief.

Ana Lopes is a Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at Newcastle University (UK). She has researched and written on diversity, gender, precarity and employment relations. She has expertise in applied, action-oriented and engaged research methods. She has been a co-investigator in the alta project, a knowledge exchange project that has resulted in a mentoring scheme for women, by women in the aviation and aerospace industry in the UK. She is a member of the associate board of Work, Employment and Society and Book Review Editor of Gender Work and Organization. She is a Co-founder of Gender Issues in Business Schools, a PhD and early career researchers network. She is a board member of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 14, Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State.

Dalila Mahdawi is a media and communications specialist in the humanitarian and not-for-profit sectors. She previously worked at the International Transport Workers’ Federation. She holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Faye McCarthy is a Senior Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Officer at the University of Leicester. She leads on the Athena Swan gender equality charter and provides advice and expertise on equalities legislation, sector good practice and innovative EDI solutions to enhance inclusivity at the University. Her PhD research, undertaken at Loughborough University explored the experiences of female ab initio pilots.

Heather McLaughlin is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at De Montfort University. As a Professor of Management and International Transport, she has published extensively in a range of international academic journals, and maintains excellent contacts with the maritime and wider logistics industry. She served as a Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee for Transport, and has been a member of a number of international expert panels on maritime transport. She is a currently on the editorial board of Research in Transportation Business and Management and Maritime Policy and Management of which she was Co-editor for 10 years.

Judith Milne is a Specialist Aviation Executive. In 2007, she founded her company advising companies and individuals on all aspects of corporate aviation strategy, including fundraising, sales, employment and international growth. In the same year, she was honoured with the European Business Aviation Award for outstanding contribution to European business. Based in the UK, she consults on various business start-up and development projects, specialising in aviation but diversified across a variety of international businesses. Her corporate roles include GM at Virgin, Head of Operations for Shell’s private fleet and MD of Bombardier Skyjet, part of the multi-national Canadian based Bombardier organisation.

Corinne Mulley was the inaugural Chair of Public Transport at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney. She is now Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney and carries Honorary positions at Aberdeen and Leeds Universities and at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. She is a Transport Economist and is active in transport research at the interface of transport policy and economics, in particular on issues relating to public transport. She has provided both practical and strategic advice on transport evaluation, including economic impact analysis, benchmarking, rural transport issues and public transport management. Her research is motivated by a need to provide evidence for policy initiatives and she has been involved in such research at local, state/regional, national/federal and European levels.

Sisangile Nduna is a Data expert and operational performance analyst at the Port of Singapore (PSA) in Antwerp. She worked as a researcher at the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH). Her compassion for sustainability and philanthropy directed her to work as a consultant for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in an International Maritime Organization (IMO) project, assessing the impact of the GHG emission reduction on states. In March 2022, she successfully defended her PhD at the University of Antwerp at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics. Her thesis emphasises the significance of container terminal performance to the rest of the supply chain. She also devoted her best efforts to assisting and supervising master’s students whose topics are in the port sector. At IAPH, she was the liaison personnel for the women’s forum.

Nyaboke Omwega is a PhD research student at the Department of Anthropology, Durham University. Her current research project is funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund – Centre for Doctoral Training at Durham University and is titled Transport as Gendered Employment Practice in sub-Saharan Africa.

Gina Porter is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK. Her research has mostly focussed around mobility, transport and livelihoods in Africa, especially among vulnerable groups. She currently leads the UK Economic and Social Research Council GCRF-funded study: ‘Youth Engagement and Skills Acquisition Within Africa’s Transport Sector: Promoting a Gender Agenda Towards Transitions into Meaningful Work’.

Leena Sachdeva is an Assistant Professor in the Amity School of Business Administration, Amity University Punjab, India. She completed her PhD from Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. She possesses over 4 years of industry and teaching experience. Her areas of research consist of gender issues in male-dominated occupations, work–life balance, strategic human resource management, millennials and industrial relations. She has published research papers and a case study in leading peer-reviewed journals. Leena is a well-travelled person and also presented her research work in reputed national and international conferences and doctoral colloquium across the world and received several scholarships from reputed organisations such as National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, USA; International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; and SHASTRI Indo-Canadian Institute and International Labor and Employment Relations Association, Seoul, South Korea.

Christa Sys is currently holder of the BNP Paribas Fortis Chair on Transport, Logistics and Ports at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics and promotor of the Dennie Lockefeer Chair. Until October 2013, she was a Scientific Director of the Research Centre on Freight and passengers’ flows. She is course Co-ordinator for the courses ‘Business Environment’, ‘Maritime Economics and Businesses’ and ‘Maritime Supply Chain’ at the Centre for Maritime and Air Transport hosted at Antwerp Management School. She also teaches at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp. She published five books as author or co-author, five books as co-editor, and has chapter publications in 24 other books. She advocates for gender equality and has been invited as a speaker at Women in Shipping events in London, Manilla, Africa Crans Montana. She is member of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (RAOS) and Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) Belgium.

Kathryn Thory is a Senior Lecturer at Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. Her main research interests are in the area of gender, management and leadership learning and development. She is interested in: feminist theorising in human resource development and organisation studies, socio-cultural and organisational dynamics of (in)equalities at work and sociological perspectives to leadership training and development. She has published in Human Resource Management and Human Resource Development journals

Stella Warren is a Research Fellow in the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre at the University of the West of England with a background in applied social research. Her expertise includes social marketing and the understanding of psychological pathways for behaviour change in health, gender and inequality in organisations, the gender pay gap and women working in male-dominated industries. She is a founder member of alta, a mentoring scheme for professional women in aviation and aerospace.

Acknowledgements

The editors wish to thank all of the authors for their valued contributions to this volume as well as participants, presenters and chairs at the Gender, Work and Transport Stream of the 2021 Gender, Work and Organisation conference and the editorial team at Emerald for their support.