Jeff Turner

Jeff Turner trained as an economist and has over 15 years experience of undertaking social research in infrastructure sectors in developing and developed countries. This experience has focused mostly on the development of gender equality into transport and infrastructure policy and practice.

This work has focused on micro-level analysis of gendered patterns of productive and reproductive activity, gendered access to household resources, gendered coping mechanisms of low-income households and their impact on mobility and infrastructure. This work has also explored developing strategies for women's participation in decision-making and institutional factors related to mainstreaming gender in infrastructure projects. He also significant experience in developing strategies for community participation in infrastructure projects. He has published his work in a wide range of publications from books and academic journals to practitioner guides and community newsletters and has also presented to a variety of audiences, from policy-makers and transport practitioners to low-income communities.