Staff profile

Jack’s background is in International Development. He obtained his BA (2014), MA (2015) and PhD (2019) from the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University. Jack was a Research Fellow and later an Honorary Research Associate at Swansea from March 2019. He has also held positions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (2020) and Canterbury Christ Church University (2021). Jack joined the Department of Anthropology at Durham University in February 2022, where he works as Postdoctoral Research Associate on the project ‘ALIVEAfrica: Animals, Livelihoods and Wellbeing in Africa’, funded by the European Commission.

Within the ALIVEAfrica project, Jack leads Case Study 2: Hunting Livelihoods in Sierra Leone, which focuses on hunting economies in rural and peri-urban areas of the country. This follows on from his previous work exploring rural agricultural lives and livelihoods in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This work examined the impact of improving transport infrastructure and services, focusing on how connecting isolated communities to the road network contributes to rural development in the areas of agriculture, education, employment, community cohesion, and health. He has also studied how improved rural-urban connectivity achieved in the post-war period in these countries has allowed rural women, previously tied down by domestic or farm activities, to participate more fully within the scope of market relations of production.

• West Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone
• Rural Livelihoods and Development
• Hunting
• Urban and Rural Transport
• Community Access
• Civil War and Post-War Reconstruction

• ALIVEAfrica: Animals, Livelihoods and Wellbeing in Africa

Journal Article

• Peters, Krijn, Jenkins, Jack, Ntramah, Simon, Vincent, James, Hayombe, Patrick, Owino, Fredrick, Opiyo, Paul, Johnson, Ted, Santos, Rosemarie, Mugisha, Marion & Chetto, Reginald (2022). COVID-19 and the Motorcycle Taxi Sector in Sub-Saharan African Cities: A Key Stakeholders’ Perspective. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 036119812211315.
• Jenkins, Jack, Mokuwa, Esther, Peters, Krijn & Richards, Paul (2021). Rural–urban connectivity strengthens agrarian peace: Evidence from a study of gender and motorcycle taxis in Sierra Leone. Journal of Agrarian Change 21(4): 776.
• Jenkins, Jack, Peters, Krijn & Richards, Paul (2020). At the end of the feeder road: Upgrading rural footpaths to motorcycle taxi-accessible tracks in Liberia. NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 92(1): 1.
• Jenkins, Jack, Mokuwa, Esther Yei, Peters, Krijn & Richards, Paul (2020). Changing women's lives and livelihoods: motorcycle taxis in rural Liberia and Sierra Leone. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport 173(2): 132.
• Jenkins, Jack Thomas & Peters, Krijn (2016). Rural connectivity in Africa: motorcycle track construction. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport 169(6): 378.

Report

• Peters, Krijn, Jenkins, Jack, Vincent, James, Santos, Rosemarie, Johnson, Ted, Ntramah, Simon, Mugisha, Marion, Opiyo, Paul, Hayombe, Patrick & Chetto, Reginald (2021). Accelerating COVID-19 related 'best practice' in the urban motorcycle taxi sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. High Volume Transport Applied Research Programme.
• Peters, Krijn, Jenkins, Jack, Vincent, James, Santos, Rosemarie, Johnson, Ted, Ntramah, Simon, Mugisha, Marion, Opiyo, Paul, Hayombe, Patrick & Chetto, Reginald (2021). COVID-19 and the urban motorcycle taxi sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Brief. High Volume Transport Applied Research Programme.
• Peters, Krijn, Mokuwa, Esther, Richards, Paul & Jenkins, Jack (2018). Gender Mainstreaming in the Motorcycle Taxi Sector in Rural Sierra Leone and Liberia. Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP).
• Peters, Krijn, Jenkins, Jack, Mokuwa, Esther, Richards, Paul & Johnson, Ted (2018). Upgrading Footpaths to Motorcycle Taxi accessible Tracks: Accelerating Socio-economic Development in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP).