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Roles: Department of Development Studies Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department: Department of Development Studies
Qualifications: BSc in Politics and Philosophy (Bristol), MA in International Law (London), MSc in Research for International Development (London)
Email address: 281755@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title: Questioning BRTs: A win-win solution to public transport problems in developing countries? (ESRC-ITF collaborative studentship)
Internal Supervisors: Dr Matteo Rizzo

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Jess is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Development Studies. Her research focuses on the implementation of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems in the cities of the global South.

With a focus on labor movements and the informal transport economy. She is currently studying the implementation of the Metrobus BRT system in Mexico City.

Jess holds a BSc degree in Politics and Philosophy (Bristol), an MA in International Law (London) and an MSc in Research for International Development (London). Prior to starting her PhD she worked for a number of years as a researcher in the international trade union movement, focusing particularly on informal work, worker responses to climate change, multinational companies, international supply chains and worker education.and worker education.

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Political economy; informal economies; labour formalisation; law and development; gender and work; the future of work; labour movements; "just transition"; urban development; urban transport; green finance; Latin America; Mexico; Sub-Saharan Africa.