Dr Seama Mowri

Seama Mowri is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Transport Studies Unit. As an interdisciplinary researcher, she works at the intersections of mobility, gender, urban space, and social justice. In particular, her research draws on ethnographic, feminist, and affective approaches to investigate how power, marginalization, and identity are negotiated in urban spaces.

She holds a PhD in Human Geography from Utrecht University (Netherlands), and her doctoral dissertation critically engaged with the gendered violence and everyday spatial exclusion of women in public transport spaces. Following her PhD, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Utrecht University, contributing to an evidence gap mapping project on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-related research across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with the aim of informing the Dutch Research Agenda. Before joining academia, Mowri worked in public health research and international development space in Bangladesh for over 10 years, with a particular focus on projects related to gender and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). 

As a lecturer at Utrecht University, Mowri taught courses on Introduction to Human Geography (UCU Bachelors), Governance and Urban Transitions (Research Masters), International Development Studies (Masters), Advanced Research Methods & Techniques, and Theories and Approaches to Migration. 

As part of the CAMINUP Project, funded through the Driving Urban Transitions partnership, Mowri’s research focuses on everyday mobility of young carers, particularly looking at how they access urban amenities and navigate (im)mobility as part of their education, leisure, work, and care practices in the context of London. 

• Mowri, S., & Bailey, A. (2025). Choreographing mobilities & urban imaginaries: Case study of Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). Cities. Volume 163, August 2025, 106039. 
• Mowri, S., Bailey, A., Helbich, M., Ettema, D., Hasan, M.M.U. (2024). Safety Interventions for Women in Urban Public Transport of South Asia: A Systematic Review and Synthesis. In: Ravindran, T.S., Sivakami, M., Bhushan, A., Rashid, S.F., Khan, K.S. (eds) Handbook on Sex, Gender and Health. Springer, Singapore. 
• Mowri, S., & Bailey, A. (2024). Riding the change: Exploring women’s navigation of risk and respectability through two-wheeler mobility in Dhaka. Journal of Transport Geography, 117, 103888. 
• Mowri, S. & Bailey, A. (2023). Affects and Assemblages of (un)safety among female bus commuters in Dhaka. Geoforum. Volume 144, August 2023, 103802. Volume 144, 
• Mowri, S., Joshi, S. Roy, S. & Bailey, A. (2022) Devising gender-responsive transport policies in South Asia. Gender & Development (CGDE). 

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