Staff profile

Gina Porter has been based at Durham University since 1986, first in the Geography Department, since 2001 in Anthropology. She has undertaken field research in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Brazil, Papua New Guinea and India but considers herself primarily an Africanist. (She taught for 10 years in Nigerian universities). Her research combines ethnographic approaches with a strong interest in spatial perspectives.

Her current research focuses primarily on mobility, transport and the use of mobile phones in sub-Saharan Africa. She recently led a three-country DFID/ESRC-funded study of youth and mobile phones and is now leading an ESRC GCRF-funded study: 'Youth engagement and skills acquisition within Africa's transport sector: promoting a gender agenda towards transitions into meaningful work'. Other recent research has been mostly related to mobility issues [gender and transport, transport-energy linkages, older people's mobility and access to services, Intermediate Means of Transport, off-road communities and issues of physical access, social networks of refugee youth] and to marketing and trade [market institutions, conflict in market place trade, gender issues in rural trade, contract farming, local agricultural labour markets]. Uneven power relationships and associated issues of exclusion are linking themes through her work, much of which has a strong gender component. Associated with this is a focus on developing innovative methodologies for effective field research (co-investigation with children and with older people, action research, mobile methods, networked approaches).

Topics on which she has supervised British and overseas postgraduates include: gender and embodied mobility in Ghana, gendering of sustainability in Cuban organic agriculture, transport impacts on agricultural production in Ghana, microcredit and transport in Ghana, road impacts on women's health in Nepal, masculinities and microfinance in Colombia, trust and farmer-trader relations in Ghana, decentralisation and poverty alleviation in Ghana, gender and fuelwood knowledges in Kenya, sanitation issues in Nigeria, empowerment in Honduras.

She has undertaken advisory work for diverse organisations, including international NGOs, the British Council, UNHabitat, DFID [Africa Community Access Programme AFCAP] and the African Development Bank.

Research Projects

• Transport and youth employment in Africa: transforming the gender agenda [focus on young women as transport user and workers in the sector, Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis].

• Mobility practices of vulnerable populations in Africa, urban and rural [including COVID impacts]

• Participatory Action Research: peer research applications in the transport sector

• Mobility, age and inter-generational relations [Tanzania, Nigeria]

• Women’s employment in the transport sector [Global South]

• Women’s energy poverty, vulnerabilities and precarity in the everyday [peri-urban Nigeria]

• Mobile phones – impacts on young people’s lives and life chances in Africa [Ghana, Malawi, South Africa]

• Women’s livelihoods and market access, Africa

• Children, transport and mobility in sub-Saharan Africa: developing a child-centred evidence base to improve policy and change thinking across Africa

• Children and young people
• Mobile phones/ICTs
• Gendered mobilities
• Older people's mobility
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Participatory methodologies
• Market institutions
• Transport, mobility and social exclusion

• Social Anthropology

• Gender, Transport and Employment
• Nigerian Food Marketing Network Website
• Porter, G., Abane, A., Lucas, K. 2020. User diversity and mobility practices in Sub-Saharan African cities: understanding the needs of vulnerable populations. The state of knowledge and research. Gothenburg, Sweden: Volvo Research and Educational Foundati
• Youth mobile phones website

Authored book

• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, A. & Mashiri, M. (2017). Young People’s Daily Mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving Young Lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Alikhan, F., Kyei, P., Mawdsley, E., Porter, G., Saraswati Raju, S., Townsend, J. & Varma, R. (2007). NGOs and the State in the Twenty-First Century: Ghana and India. Oxford: INTRAC.
• Mawdsley, E., Townsend, J., Porter, G. & Oakley, P. (2002). Knowledge, power and development agendas: NGOs North and South. Oxford: INTRAC.

Chapter in book

• Porter, G., Dungey, C., Akoshi, M., Bullus, P.H., Houiji, R., Matomane, S., Mohammed, A.U., Musa, A.I., Nasser, W. & Usman, U.N. (2023). Peer research, power and ethics: Navigating participatory research in an Africa-focused mobilities study before and during Covid-19. In A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: Conversations for Transformational Change. Percy-Smith, Barry, Thomas, Nigel Patrick, O'Kane, Claire & Imoh, Afua Twum-Danso London: Routledge.
• Dungey, Claire Elisabeth, Ahmad, Hadiza, Yahaya, Joseph Mshelia, Adamu, Fatima, Dayil, Plangsat Bitrus, De Lannoy, Ariane & Porter, Gina (2023). Dangers in the Third Place: Walking, Public Transport and the Experiences of Young Girls in Cape Town and Abuja. In School Journey as a Third Place: Theories, Methods and Experiences Around The World. Moody, Zoe, Berchtold-Sedooka, Ayuko, Camponovo, Sara, Jaffé, Philip D. & Darbellay, Frédéric Anthem Press.
• Porter, Gina & Omwega, Nyaboke (2022). Experiences of Women Workers in the African Road Transport Sector. In Women, Work and Transport. Wright, Tessa Budd, Lucy & Ison, Stephen Emerald. 55-69.
• Porter, Gina & Dungey, Claire (2021). Innovative field research methodologies for more inclusive transport planning: Review and prospect. In Social Issues in Transport Planning. Pereira, Rafael H. M. & Boisjoly, Geneviève Elsevier. 8: 273-303.
• Porter, G.,, Hampshire, K., Munthali, A., & Robson, E. (2019). Physical and virtual mobility for youth employment in Malawi: reflections on findings from two research projects. In Putting Children First: New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa. Roelen, K., Morgan, R. & Tafere, Y. ibidem Press.
• Porter, G, Tewodros, A & Gorman, M (2018). Mobility, transport and older people’s well being in sub-Saharan Africa: review and prospect. In Geographies of transport and ageing. Curl, A & Musselwhite, C Palgrave Macmillan. 75-100.
• Porter, G, Hampshire, K, de Lannoy, A, Gunguluza, N, Mashiri, M & Bango, A (2018). Exploring the intersection between physical and virtual mobilities in urban South Africa: reflections from two youth-centred studies. In Urban mobilities in the Global South. Uteng, TP & Lucas, K Routledge. 59-75.
• Porter, G., Heslop, A., Bifandimu, F., Sibale, E., Tewodros, A. & Gorman, M. (2014). Exploring intergenerationality and ageing in rural Kibaha, Tanzania: methodological innovation through co-investigation with older people. In Intergenerational space. Vanderbeck, R. & Worth, N. London: Routledge. 259-272.
• Porter, G. (2014). Exploring collaborative research methodologies in the pursuit of sustainable futures. In Sustainable development: an appraisal from the Gulf Region. Sillitoe, P. Oxford: Berghahn. 19: 419-435.
• Porter, G. (2013). Urban transport in Cape Coast, Ghana: A social sustainability analysis. Case study prepared for UNHabitat Sustainable Urban Transport: Global Report on Human Settlements 2013. In Global report on Human Settlements: Sustainable Urban Transport:. UNHabitat.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A. Robson, E. Munthali, A., Mashiri, M., Tanle, A., Maponya, A. & Dube, S. (2012). Perspectives on Young People’s Daily Mobility, Transport and Service Access in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Mobilities: new perspectives on transport and society. Grieco, M. & Urry, J. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. 65-90.
• Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Kilpatrick, K., Kyei, P., Adjaloo, M. & Oppong, G. (2011). The search for belonging: youth identities and transitions to adulthood in an African refugee context. In Geographies of Children, Youth and Families. Holt, L. Routledge. 83-94.
• Hampshire, K., Porter, G. Kilpatrick, K. Kyei, P., Adjaloo, M. & Oppong, G. (2011). Bridging the Child Right gap in a refugee context: survival strategies and impact on inter-generational relations. In Children’s rights in Ghana: reality or rhetoric?. Ame, R., Agbenyiga, D. & Apt, N. Lexington. 59-73.
• Porter, G., Abane, A., Blaufuss, K. & Owusu Acheampong, F.O. (2011). Children’s rights, mobility and transport in Ghana: access to education and health services. In Children’s rights in Ghana: reality or rhetoric?. Ame, Robert Kwame, Agbényiga, DeBrenna LaFa & Apt, Nana Araba Lanham: Lexington Books. 113-128.
• Lyon, F. & Porter, G. (2010). Evolving institutions of trust: personalized and institutional bases of trust in Nigerian and Ghanaian food trading. In Organizational trust: a cultural perspective. Saunders, M.N.K., Skinner, D., Dietz, G., Gillespie, N. & Lewicki, R.J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 255-278.
• Porter, G., Blaufuss, K. & Owusu Acheampong, F. (2010). Filling the family's transport gap in sub-Saharan Africa: young people and load carrying in Ghana. In Geographies of children, youth and families: an international perspective. Holt, L. London: Routledge. 189-202.
• Porter, G., Lyon, F. & Potts, D. (2009). Urban food supply in sub-Saharan Africa in the twenty-first century: the role of trading and market institutions. In Macromarketing – a global focus: Marketing systems, societal development, equity & poverty. Shapiro, S.J., Tadajewski, M. & Schultz, C.J. Sage. 220-243.
• Porter, G. (2009). Children, (im)mobility and transport in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for meeting the MDGs. In Africa, transport and the Millennium Development Goals: Achieving an Internationally Set Agenda. Grieco, M., Ndulo, M., Bryceson, D., Porter, G. & McCray, T. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. 177-195.
• Townsend, J., Mawdsley, E. & Porter, G. (2008). Development hegemonies and local outcomes: Women and NGOs in low income countries. In Globalization: Theory and Practice. Kofman, E. & Youngs, G. London: Continuum. 87-97.
• Porter, G. & Lyon, F. (2006). Social capital as culture? Promoting cooperative action in Ghana. In Culture and development in a globalizing world: geographies, actors, and paradigms. Radcliffe, S.A. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 150-169.
• Lyon, F. & Porter, G. (2005). The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement: social capital and targeted development in West Africa. In West African worlds: local and regional paths through development, modernity and globalisation. Cline-Cole, R. & Robson, E. London: Pearson Education.
• Townsend, J., Mawdsley, E. & Porter, G. (2003). Development hegemonies and local outcomes: women and NGOs in low-income countries. In Globalization: theory and practice. Koffman, E. & Youngs, G. London: Continuum.
• Townsend, J., Mawdsley, E. & Porter, G. (2002). Challenges for NGOs. In The Arnold Companion to Development Studies. Desai, V. & Potter, R. London: Arnold.
• Porter, G. (1999). Methodes de terrain pour l'etude du role des marches ruraux periodiques dans les pays en developpement. In Prix, produits et paysans: methode pour analyser la commercialisationa agricole dans les pays en developpement. Scott, G. & Griffon, D. Karthala.
• Porter, G., Young, E., Dzietror, A. & Awumbila, M. (1999). Participatory and interdisciplinary research in practice: a case study from coastal Ghana. In Natural Resource Management in Ghana and its socio-economic context. Blench, R Overseas Development Institute. 178-190.
• Porter, G. (1995). Field method for exploring the role of the indigenous rural periodic market in developing countries. In Prices, products and people: analysing agricultural markets in developing countries. Scott, G. Lynne Rienner.
• Porter, G. (1995). Adapting to environment and market: trade and marketing in northern Nigeria. In People and environment in Africa. Binns, J.A. Wiley.
• Porter, G. (1990). Retailing in northern Nigeria: patterns of continuity and change. In Retailing environments in developing countries. Findlay, A.M., Paddison, R. & Dawson, J.A. Routledge. 66-86.
• Porter, G. (1990). Trade and inequality in Borno, north-east Nigeria. In Inequality and development: case studies from the Third World. Swindell, K., Mortimore, M. & Baba,J. MacMillan. 331-355.

Conference Proceeding

• Porter, G. & Blaufuss, K. (2002). Children, transport and traffic in Ghana. International Workshop on children and traffic, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Porter, G. (1998). Linking the global and the local: marketing and production issues in the Brazilian sugar industry. Proceedings of the 6th International conference on marketing and development, Black sea university, Mangalia, Romania, International society for marketing and development.
• Clark, S., Foster-Smith, R. & Porter,G. (1997). A systems approach to the development of a management information system for the coastal ecosystem of Ghana. International seminar on the coastal zone of West Africa, Accra, Ghana, Penshaw Press, Sunderrland, Mass.
• Armah, A.K., Clark, S. & Porter, G. (1997). Coping responses and strategies in the coastal zone of south-east Ghana: a case study in the Anloga area. International seminar on the coastal zone of West Africa, Accra, Ghana, Penshaw Press, Sunderrland.
• Nevett, T. & Porter, G. (1996). Perspectives on geography and advertising. American Marketing Association winter conference: marketing issues in a new era, Hilton Head, South Carolina.
• Porter, G. (1996). Marketing, geography and qualitative research in developing areas. Marketing issues in a new era, University of Indiana, American Marketing Association.
• Porter, G. (1995). Marketing Transkei's agricultural produce: challenges of integration in the new South Africa. 5th International conference on marketing and development, Beijing.
• Porter, G. (1994). Women in the market place: case studies from northern Nigeria. International conference on women and public space, Athens National Technical University, Greece.
• Porter, G. (1993). Changing accessibility and reorganisation of rural markets in Nigeria. 4th International conference on marketing and development, San Jose, Costa Rica.

Edited book

• Porter, Gina, Townsend, Janet & Hampshire, Kate (2014). Children and young people as knowledge producers. London: Routledge.
• Grieco, M., Ndulo, M., Bryceson, D., Porter, G. & McCray, T. (2009). Africa, transport and the Millennium Development Goals: achieving an internationally set agenda. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Fernando, P. & Porter, G. (2002). Balancing the load: women, gender and transport. London: Zed Books.

Edited Journal

• Bradbury, A. & Porter, G. (2020). Themed issue on gender mainstreaming in rural transport. Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers - Transport, 173 (2): ICE publishing.
• Ergler, C., Kearns, R., Witten, K. & Porter, G. (2016). Technological Methodologies and Practices. Children's Geographies, 14 (2): Routledge.
• Porter, G., Townsend, J. & Hampshire, K. (2012). Children as knowledge producers. Children’s Geographies, 10 (2): Routledge.
• Hampshire, K., Porter, G. & Abane, A. (2011). Children’s mobility in Ghana. Society, Biology and Human Affairs, 76 (1).

Journal Article

• Murphy, Emma C., Porter, Gina, Aouidet, Hamida, Dungey, Claire, Han, Saerom, Houiji, Rania, Jlassi, Mariem, Keskes, Hanen, Mansour, Hichem, Nasser, Wiem, Riahi, Hanen, Riahi, Sihem & Zaghoud, Hamza (2023). ‘No place for a woman’ Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis. Geoforum 142: 103753.
• Porter, Gina, Murphy, Emma C., Adamu, Fatima, Delannoy, Ariane & Dungey, Claire (2023). Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities. Mobilities 18(1): 21-36.
• Porter, Gina, Murphy, Emma, Han, Saerom, Mansour, Hichem, Keskes, Hanen, Dungey, Claire, Clark, Sam & der Weijde, Kim van (2022). Improving young women’s access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid. Transportation Research Procedia 60: 266.
• Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P.B., De Lannoy, A., Han, S., Mansour, H., Dungey, C., Ahmad, H., Maskiti, B., S, Clark. & Van der Weidje, K. (2021). Women's mobility and transport in the peripheries of three African cities: Reflecting on early impacts of COVID-19. Transport Policy 110: 181-190.
• Porter, Gina, Hampshire, Kate, Abane, Albert, Munthali, Alister, Robson, Elsbeth, De Lannoy, Ariane, Tanle, Augustine & Owusu, Samuel (2020). Mobile phones, gender, and female empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: studies with African youth. Information Technology for Development 26(1): 180-193.
• Mulongo, Godfrey, Porter, Gina & Tewodros, Amleset (2020). Gendered politics in rural roads: gender mainstreaming in Tanzania's transport sector. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport 173(2): 87-96.
• Porter, Gina & Turner, Jeff (2019). Meeting Young People’s Mobility and Transport Needs: Review and Prospect. Sustainability 11(22): 6193.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Owusu, S., de Lannoy, A. & Bango, A. (2018). Connecting with home, keeping in touch: physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa 88(2): 404-424.
• Porter, Gina & Hampshire, Kate (2018). Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: perspectives from urban Africa. Journal of International Development 30(4): 539-558.
• Lucas, K. & Porter, G. (2016). Mobilities and livelihoods in urban development contexts: Introduction. Journal of Transport Geography 55: 129-131.
• Porter, G. (2016). Mobilities in rural Africa: new connections, new challenges. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 106(2): 434-441.
• Porter, G. (2016). Reflections on co-investigation through peer research with young people and older people in sub-Saharan Africa. Qualitative Research 16(3): 293-304.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Milner, J., Munthali, A., Robson, E., De Lannoy, A., Bango, A., Gunguluza, N., Mashiri, M., Tanle, A. & Abane, A. (2016). Mobile phones and education in sub-Saharan Africa: from youth practice to public policy. Journal of International Development 28(1): 22-39.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Bango, A., de Lannoy, A., Gunguluza, N., Tanle, A., Owusu, S. & Milner, J. (2015). Intergenerational relations and the power of the cell phone: perspectives on young people’s phone usage in Sub-Saharan Africa. Geoforum 64: 37-46.
• Porter, Gina (2015). Mobile phones, mobility practices, and transport organization in sub-Saharan Africa. Mobility in History 6(1): 81-88.
• Porter, Gina (2014). Transport services and their impact on poverty and growth in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a review of recent research and future research needs. Transport Reviews: A Transnational Transdisciplinary Journal 34(1): 25-45.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Dunn, C., Hall, R. Levesley, M., Burton, K., Robson,S., Abane, A., Blell, M. & Panther, J. (2013). Health impacts of pedestrian headloading: a review of the evidence with particular reference to women and children in sub-Saharan Africa. Social Science & Medicine 88: 90-97.
• Porter, G. (2013). Rural access, health and disability in sub-Saharan Africa; lessons for transport policy and practice from recent transport services research. World Transport Policy and Practice 19(2): 3-6.
• Porter, G., Tewodros, A., Bifandimu, F., Gorman, M., Heslop, A., Sibale, E., Awadh, A. & Kiswaga, L. (2013). Transport and mobility constraints in an aging population: health and livelihood implications in rural Tanzania. Journal of Transport Geography 30: 161-169.
• Porter, G. (2012). Mobile phones, livelihoods and the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa: review and prospect. Geography Compass 6(5): 241.
• Porter, G. Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M., Tanle, A., Maponya, G. & Dube, S. (2012). Child porterage and Africa’s transport gap: evidence from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. World development 40(10): 2136-2154.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M. & Tanle, A. (2012). Youth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study. Information Technology for Development 18(2): 145-162.
• Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Owusu, S. Mariwah, S., Abane, A., Robson, E., Munthali, A., Mashiri, M., Maponya, G. & Bourdillon, M. (2012). Taking the long view: temporal considerations in the ethics of children’s research activity and knowledge production. Children's Geographies 10(2): 219.
• Porter, G. (2012). Reflections on a century of road transport developments in West Africa and their (gendered) impacts on the rural poor. EchoGéo 20(April-June 2012): 1-14.
• Porter, G., Blaufuss, K. & Owusu Acheampong, F. (2012). Gendered patterns of IMT adoption and use: Learning from action research. Research in Transportation Economics 34(1): 11-15.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Tanle, A., Esia-Donkoh, K., Amoako S., Agblorti, R. & Owusu, S. (2011). Mobility, education and livelihood trajectories for young people in rural Ghana: a gender perspective. Children's Geographies 9(3-4): 395-410.
• Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Owusu, S.A., Tanle, A. & Abane, A. (2011). Out of the reach of children? Young people’s health-seeking practices and agency in Africa’s newly-emerging therapeutic landscapes. Social Science & Medicine 73(5): 702-710.
• Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Mashiri, M., Dube, S. & Maponya, G. (2011). Proposing love on the way to school: daily mobility, sexuality and youth transitions in South Africa. Culture, Health and Sexuality 13(2): 217-231.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Tanle, A. Munthali, A., Robson, E. Mashiri, M., Maponya, G. & Dube, S. (2011). Young people’s transport and mobility in sub-Saharan Africa: the gendered journey to school. Documents d’Analisi Geografica 57(1): 61-79.
• Porter, Gina (2011). 'I think a woman who travels a lot is befriending other men and that's why she travels': mobility constraints and their implications for rural women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa. Gender, place and culture 18(1): 65-81.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Munthali, A. & Robson, E. (2011). Mobility, surveillance and control of children and young people in the everyday: perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa. Surveillance and Society 9(1/2): 114-131.
• Porter, G, Hampshire, K & Abane, A (2011). Children's mobility in Ghana: an overview of methods and findings from the Ghana research study. Society, Biology and Human Affairs 76(1): 1-14.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Robson, E., Munthali, A., Mashiri, M. & Tanle, A. (2010). Moving young lives: Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa. Geoforum 41(5): 796-804.
• Porter, G., Lyon, F., Adamu, F. & Obafemi, L. (2010). Conflict and cooperation in market spaces: learning from the operation of local networks of civic engagement in African market trade. Human Organization 69(1): 31-42.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M. & Maponya, G. (2010). Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey to school. Children's Geographies 8(2): 91-105.
• Porter, G (2010). Older women and transport issues in sub-Saharan Africa. International Forum for rural transport and development: Forum News 15(3): 1-3, 5.
• Porter, Gina, Hampshire, Kate, Abane, Albert, Munthali, Alister, Robson, Elsbeth, Mashiri, Mac & Tanle, Augustine (2010). Youth transport, mobility and security in sub-Saharan Africa: the gendered journey to school. World Transport Policy and Practice 16(1): 51-71.
• Porter, G. (2010). A moving issue: children and young people's transport and mobility constraints in Africa. International Forum for rural transport and development: Forum News 15(1): 1, 1-3, 4.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Mashiri, M., Dube, S. & Maponya, G. (2010). ‘Youthscapes’ and escapes in rural Africa: education, mobility and livelihood trajectories for young people in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Journal of International Development 22(8): 1090-1101.
• Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Bourdillon, M., Robson, E., Munthali, A., Abane, A. & Mashiri, M. (2010). Children as Research Collaborators: Issues and Reflections from a Mobility Study in Sub-Saharan Africa. American Journal of Community Psychology 46(1-2): 215-227.
• Porter, G. (2010). Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa III: The challenges of meeting children and young people’s mobility and transport needs. Progress report 3. Progress in Development Studies 10(2): 169-180.
• Robson, E., Porter, G., Hampshire, K. & Bourdillon, M. (2009). ‘Doing it right?’ working with young researchers in Malawi to investigate children, transport and mobility. Children's Geographies 7(4): 467-480.
• Lyon, F. & Porter, G. (2009). Market institutions, trust and norms: exploring moral economies in Nigerian food systems. Cambridge Journal of Economics 33(5): 903-920.
• Hampshire, K., Porter, G. Kilpatrick, K., Kyei, P., Adjaloo, M. & Oppong, G. (2008). Liminal spaces: changing inter-generational relations among long-term Liberian refugees in Ghana. Human Organization 67(1): 25-36.
• Porter, G. (2008). Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa II: putting gender into mobility and transport planning in Africa. Progress in Development Studies 8(3): 281-289.
• Porter, Gina Hampshire, Kate, Kyei, Peter, Adjaloo, Michael Rapoo, George & Kilpatrick, Kate (2008). Linkages between livelihood opportunities and refugee-host relations: learning from the experiences of Liberian camp-based refugees in Ghana. Journal of Refugee Studies 21(2): 230-252.
• Porter, Gina & Abane, Albert (2008). Increasing children’s participation in African transport planning: reflections on methodological issues in a child-centred research project. Children’s Geographies 6(2): 151-167.
• Porter, Gina (2007). Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa. Progress in Development Studies 7(3): 251-257.
• Porter, Gina Blaufuss, Kathrin & Owusu Acheampong, Frank (2007). Youth, mobility and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: perspectives from Ghana and Nigeria. Africa Insight 37(3): 420-431.
• Porter, Gina, Lyon, Fergus & Potts, Deborah (2007). Market institutions and urban food supply in West and Southern Africa: a review. Progress in Development Studies 7(2): 115-134.
• Mawdsley, E., Townsend, J. & Porter, G. (2006). Trust, accountability and face-to-face interaction in North-South NGO relations. Development in Practice 15(1): 77-82.
• Binns, T., Porter, G., Nel, E. & Kyei, P. (2006). Decentralizing poverty? reflections on the experience of decentralisation and the capacity to achieve local development in Ghana and South Africa. Africa Insight 35(4): 21-31.
• Porter, G. & Lyon, F. (2006). Groups as a means or an end? Social capital and the promotion of cooperation in Ghana. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(2): 249-262.
• Porter, G. (2005). From periodic markets to supermarkets: what hope for equitable and sustainable food markets in Africa? Journal of Sustainable Development 2(2): 2-8.
• Townsend, J.G., Porter, G. & Mawdsley, E. (2004). Creating spaces of resistance: development NGOs and their clients in Ghana, India and Mexico. Antipode 36(5): 871-889.
• Porter, G. (2003). NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana. Progress in Development Studies 3(2): 131-145.
• Porter, G., Harris, F., Lyon, F., Dung, J. & Adepetu, A.A. (2003). Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small-scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991-2001. Geographical Journal 169(4): 370-381.
• Porter, G. (2002). Improving mobility and access for the off-road rural poor through Intermediate Means of Transport. World Transport Policy and Practice 8(4): 6-19.
• Porter, G. (2002). Living in a walking world: rural mobility and social equity issues in sub-Saharan Africa. World Development 30(2): 285-300.
• Townsend, J.G., Porter, G. & Mawdsley, E. (2002). The role of the transnational community of non-government organisations: governance or poverty reduction? Journal of International Development 14(6): 829-839.
• Porter, G., Rufino-Dabat, C. & Ramos da Souza, H. (2001). Local labour markets and the reconfiguration of the sugar industry in north-east Brazil. Antipode 33(5): 826-854.
• Porter, G. (2000). Market places in Nigeria: patterns of continuity and change. The Nigerian Field 65(1-2): 92-100.
• Porter, G., Young, E. & Dzietror, A. (1998). Pressures on an intensive irrigated cash-crop system in coastal Ghana. Geoforum 28(3-4): 329-40.
• Porter, G. & Young, E. (1998). Decentralised environmental management and popular participation in coastal Ghana. Journal of International Development 10: 515-526.
• Abbot, J, Chambers, R, Dunn, C, Harris, T, Merode, E, Porter, G, Townsend,J & Weiner, D (1998). Participatory GIS: opportunity or oxymoron. PLA Notes 33: 27-33.
• Porter, G. (1997). Mobility and inequality in rural Nigeria: the case of off-road communities. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 88(1): 65-76.
• Porter, G. & Philips-HOward, K. (1997). Comparing contracts. World Development 25(2): 227-238.
• Porter, G. & Phillips-Howard, K. (1997). Contract farming in South Africa: a case study from KwaZulu Natal. Geography 82(1): 38-44.
• Porter, G. & Phillips-Howard, K. (1997). Agricultural issues in the former homelands of South Africa: the case of Transkei. Review of African Political Economy 72: 185-202.
• Porter, G. (1996). Structural adjustment programmes and road transport deterioration in West Africa: a review. Geography 81(4): 8-11.
• Phillips-Howard, K. & Porter, G. (1996). Small-scale irrigation and the reconstruction and development of Transkei, South Africa. Area 28(3): 373-383.
• Porter, G. (1996). Company rivalry and indigenous markets in early colonial Nigeria. Journal of Macromarketing 16(1): 91-102.
• Porter, G. & Phillips-Howard, K. (1996). Tensions and transformation in a tea enterprise: Transkei, South Africa. Geographical Journal 162(3): 287-294.
• Nevett, T. & Porter, G. (1996). Perspectives on advertising from the Geographical literature: a critical review. International Journal of Advertising 15(4): 373-382.
• Porter, G. (1995). 'Third world' research by 'first world' geographers: an Africanist perspective. Area 27(2): 139-141.
• Porter, G. & Phillips-Howard, K. (1995). Farmers, labourers and the company: exploring relationships on a Transkei contract farming scheme. Journal of Development Studies 32(1): 55-73.
• Porter, G. (1995). The impact of road construction on women's trade in rural Nigeria. Journal of Transport Geography 3(1): 3-14.
• Porter, G. (1994). Food marketing and urban food supply on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria: a comparison of large and small producer strategies under SAP. Journal of Developing Areas 29(1): 91-110.
• (1994). Outgrower barley cultivation on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria: a case study of agricultural innovation. Geographical Journal 160(3): 319-327.
• Porter, G. & Phillips-Howard, Z. (1993). Escaping from rural hardship: street children in Umtata, South Africa. African Urban Quarterly 9(3-4): 12-22.
• Porter, G. & Phillips-Howard, K. (1993). Bitter brew? Barley growing in Nigeria. Geography Review 6(5): 34-37.
• Porter, G. (1993). Accessibility and the changing marketing system in Nigeria. Journal of Macromarketing 13(2): 54-63.
• Porter, G. (1992). The Nigerian census surprise. Geography 77(4): 371-374.
• Porter, G. (1990). West Africa: coping with recession. Geography Review 11: 13-24.
• Porter, G. (1989). A note on slavery, seclusion and agrarian change in northern Nigeria. Journal of African History 30: 487-491.
• Porter, G. (1988). Perspectives on trade, mobility and gender in a rural market system: Borno, north-east Nigeria. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 79(2): 82-92.
• Porter, G. (1986). Periodic rural markets in Borno, north-east Nigeria. Annals of Borno 3: 107-125.
• Porter, G. (1984). Traders' travel patterns: the case of part-time trade among the Kanuri of Borno. Nigerian Geographical Journal 27: 15-24.
• Porter, G. (1979). The value of farm notebooks: a new example from Cheshire. The local historian 13(5): 270-276.
• Porter, G. (1979). The marketing of agricultural produce in Cheshire during the nineteenth century. Transactions of the historic society of Lancashire and Cheshire 126: 139-155.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Porter, G. & Mawdsley, E. (2008). Mobility and development. Geography Review 21(4): 16-18.
• Porter, G. (1998). Off-road trading: some perspectives from Africa. Appropriate Technology 25(2): 7-9.

Other (Print)

• Porter, G. (1999). Access to marekting opportunities in Ghana's off-road communities: a review of constraints and potential interventions in Ghana and Assin districts, Central Region. 70 pp.
• Porter, G. (1999). A literature and archival review of crop marketing and market accessibility issues with particular reference to Central Region, Ghana. 46pp.
• (1999). Workshop proceedings: Access to market opportunities in Ghana's off-road communities. pp. 40.
• Porter, G. (1999). Access to market opportunities in Ghana's off-road communities: interim reports on fieldwork in Ghana: nos 1-3. 20pp.
• Porter, G. (1999). Final technical report: access to market opportunities in Ghana's off-road communities.
• Porter, G. & Acheampong Owusu, F. (1999). A gazetteer of markets and roads serving Gomoa district. pp. 27.
• Porter, G. (1998). Resource endowment, access and management in coastal Ghana: archival sources. pp. 26.
• Porter, G., Young, E., Dzietror, A. & Awumbila, M. (1998). Participatory approaches to the management of the coastal zone ecosystem in Ghana: Vol 2: database for Dangbe East, Gomoa and Keta districts, with an introduction by G. Porter. pp. 250.
• Young, E., Porter, G., Awumbila, M. & Dzietror, A. (1998). Participatory GIS case studies. Case 3, Annex 3 of S. Luque, Use of geographic information systems for mineral resources and environmental management. Case 3, Annex 3.
• Porter, G. (1998). Small-scale industry based on grasses, reed and palm products in coastal Ghana. pp. 14.
• Porter, G. (1998). Participatory approaches to the management of the coastal zone ecosystem in Ghana. Vol 1: final summary report to the UK DFID. pp. 30.
• Porter, G. (1997). Participatory approaches to the management of the coastal zone ecosystem in Ghana. Interim report.
• Porter, G. (1997). Participatory approaches to the management of the coastal zone ecosystem in Ghana. Interim report no. 2.
• Porter, G. (1997). Research in the coastal zone ecosystem of Ghana: a position paper. pp. 68.
• Porter, G. (1997). Participatory approaches to the management of the coastal zone ecosysteme in Ghana. Interim report no. 7.
• Clark, S., Foster-Smith, R., Porter, G., Young, E., Armah, A. Dzietror, A. & Awumbila, M. (1996). A management information system for the coastal zone ecosystem of Ghan: its application to planning and developing multiple resource use strategies, vol 1.
• Porter, G. & Dzietror, A. (1996). Decentralization at the Environmental Progtection Agency: a review. A management information system for the coastal zone ecosystem of Ghan: its application to planning and developing multiple resource use strategies, vol 2..
• Porter, G. (1996). Participatory approaches to environmental resource management issues in coastal Ghana: review and prospect of a programme. A management information system for the coastal zone ecosystem of Ghan: its application to planning and developing multiple resource use strategies, vol 2..
• Clark, S., Foster-Smith, R. Porter, G., YOung, E., Armah, A., Dzietror, A. & Awumbila, M. (1996). A management information system for the coastal zone ecosystem of Ghan: its application to planning and developing multiple resource use strategies, vol 2.
• Porter, G. (1976). Fuel supply: contributions to the surveys and planning reports prepared by Max Lock Group [Nigeria] for the North East State Government, Nigeria [limited circulation].
• Porter, G. (1976). Agriculture: contributions to the surveys and planning reports prepared by Max Lock Group [Nigeria] for the North East State Government, Nigeria [limited circulation].
• Porter, G. (1976). Forestry: contributions to the surveys and planning reports prepared by Max Lock Group [Nigeria] for the North East State Government, Nigeria [limited circulation].

Report

• Porter, G. (2013). Transport services and their impact on poverty and growth in rural sub-Saharan Africa. 2: Overview. Report to the Africa Community Access programme, London.
• Porter, G. (2013). Transport services and their impact on poverty and growth in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Durham, Durham University.
• Porter, G. (2012). Transport services and their impact on poverty and growth in rural sub-Saharan Africa: literature review. Report to the Africa Community Access Programme, London.
• Porter, Gina, Hampshire, Kate, Lolichen, P., Nandana Reddy, Nandana, Abane, Albert, Mashiri, Mac, Buiten, Denise, Duna, Zuzekile & Fernando, Priyanthi (2005). Improving policy on children's mobility and access through development of a participatory child-centred field methodology/toolkit. Report to the Department for International Development, May 2005.
• Porter,G, Lyon, F, Adamu, F, Obafemi, L & Blench, R (2005). Trade and markets in conflict development and conflict resolution in Nigeria. Policy Brief prepared for Nigerian government ministries and international donor agencies.
• Porter, G., Lyon, F. & The Nigerian Marketing Network (2005). Investigations on building a food marketing policy evidence base in Nigeria. Briefing Report.
• Porter, G, Owusu Acheampong, F & Blaufuss, K (2003). Socio-economic findings of the five village study: actions research to evaluate the impact on livelihoods of a set of post-harvest interventions in Ghana's off-road settlements. Report to the UK Department for International Development, June 2003.
• Porter, G. (2002). Intermediate Means of Transport: a review paper with special reference to Ghana. Report to the UK Department for International Development. University of Durham.

Working Paper

• Porter, G. (1993). Rural fuel supply and sales on the Jos Plateau [Part II of Fuelwood Studies]. Interim report no. 37.
• Porter, G. (1992). Rural markets on the Jos Plateau [incorporating a gazetteer]. Interim report no. 31. .
• Porter, G. (1992). Food marketing and urban food supply on the Jos Plateau. Interim report no. 29.
• Porter, G. (1991). The Derwentside project, 1989-1991: Department of Geography, University of Durham. Report to Enterprise in Higher Education, September 1991.
• (1991). Barley cultivation for beer on the Jos Plateau: agricultural innovation as a response to structural adjustment. Interim report no. 20.