Bradley Rink

Bradley Rink is a Human Geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environmental Studies & Tourism at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). His interest in mobilities and migration research and teaching is grounded in the social aspects of movements and circulations in African cities.  He is the 2021 recipient of the Royal Geographical Society Wiley Digital Archive research fellowship. His recent outputs have been published in leading journals within his field including Mobilities, Transfers, Journal of Geography in Higher Education and Tourism Geographies as well as various edited collections.  He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Urban Forum (Springer Nature), PI for the UWC-registered project Mobilities in the global South, and sits on the Editorial Boards of Mobilities and Journal of Urban Mobility.  He is a member of UWC’s Migration and Mobilities Interdisciplinary Collective in Africa (MMICA) and the African Urban Mobilities Network and serves the Association of the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) as an elected member of the Executive Committee. He is the recipient of the 2017 CHE-HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award.