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Mulaimina Said

Postgraduate student

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 37966
Email address: eemtss@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.123

Biography

Project details

Project title: Female Empowerment Within Global Value Chains: A Study of the Dynamics of Employment within Kenyan Non-Traditional Export Industries

Supervisors: Dr Anne Tallontire and Prof Andy Gouldson

Start date: March 2007

Project description

I will be investigating how employment in non-traditional export (NTE) industries in Kenya has affected the lives of its women workers. I will be focusing on Kenyan Horticulture and (potentially) Tea as the two NTEs that will be used to answer my research questions which are as follows:

  • To investigate the gendered nature of employment within NTEs
  • To develop an appropriate conceptual framework to capture the dynamics of empowerment within the context of global value chains (GVCs).
  • To investigate how the industries' involvement within GVCs has impacted on their structures and strategies, as well as the opportunities and/or constraints to women workers
  • To explore the nature of empowerment for women workers in global value chains

Biography and research interests

Academic Qualifications

  • BSc Economics and Economic History at The University of Warwick , graduating 2005
  • MA in Globalisation and Development at The University of Warwick, graduating 2007

Since March 14th 2007 I have been researching a PhD, first at The University of Greenwich for 6 months until I transferred to The University of Leeds, where I am now a member of the Sustainability Research Institute within the School of Earth and Environment.

Research Interests

Global Value Chains, Female Empowerment, The Gendered Nature of Employment and Non-Traditional Export Industries in Kenya.

Broadly speaking my research interests are centred around the dynamics of employment within GVCs, how power relations within these chains impact the different actors within them and whether or not employment within non-traditional export industries that are part of these chains has the potential to bring about the empowerment of its women workers.