Dr Tadiwa Chikengezha

Tadiwa Webster Chikengezha is a Researcher in Urban Mobilities in the Transport Studies Unit (TSU), School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. His research explores the relationships between everyday mobilities, social justice and sustainable development, with a particular focus on accessibility and infrastructure inequalities in cities across Sub-Saharan Africa. He examines how peri-urban marginalisation, terms of incorporation and social exclusion shape people’s access to essential services and opportunities.

His current work includes the John Fell Fund-supported Water-Induced Mobilities project in peri-urban Zimbabwe. This research examines water-collection journeys as a form of everyday mobility, connecting transport geography with questions of care, gender, climate adaptation and human wellbeing. His role encompasses research design, fieldwork coordination, analysis, academic publications and knowledge exchange, working collaboratively with communities, researchers and partner institutions.

Tadiwa holds a Master’s degree and a DPhil in Development Studies from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His doctoral research investigated how the terms on which low-income households are incorporated into peri-urban settlements shape their everyday mobility and accessibility, with a focus on social exclusion in Harare.