CeMoRe and the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University are thrilled to announce our John Urry Fellow for 2018-19, Thiago Allis, and to welcome him to Lancaster from 22nd January- 15th February 2019. Thiago will be the second awardee of the John Urry...
Monika Buscher is a keynote speaker at the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Valencia, 19-22nd May. She will be discussing Futures of Disaster Response. Making IT Personal: Radically Reflexive Resilience The...
The isITethical team are bringing creative ethical impact into innovation and the Internet of Public Safety Things. The Internet of Public Safety Things: Use Cases Workshop will take place on 4th December 2018. From the workshop description: The workshop aims to...
Read Lynne Pearce's full publication here . Published online 08 Sep 2018. "Everybody has their own personal path and is known by it … Paths have their stories, just as people do. (Ingold 2007, xvi)" "In this article, I propose that mobility performs a crucial role in...
The Siegen Symposium 'On Time' was just inspiring. The organisers - Claudio Coletta (Antwerp), Jörg Potthast, Tobias Röhl, and Susann Wagenknecht (Siegen) set the scene with a careful and thought provoking position paper. They argue that: temporality and normativity...
Pete Merriman and Lynne Pearce, ‘Mobility and the Humanities’ Mobilities, 12 (4) 2017 Merriman and Pearce took ‘Mobility and the Humanities’ as an opportunity for ‘highlighting the “genre-defying” approaches of many leading mobility scholars whose work transcends any...
On April 21-22nd 2017 CeMoRe will host the inaugural conference of the new Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture. The series directors - Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey), Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon, USA),...
Catherine Smith, visiting reasearcher at Cemore this summer, writes about how she has used mobile methods to research dog walking practices and physiotherapy. Movement and physiotherapy research are inextricably linked; however, until dog-walking...
Work that has been engaging with mobilities research in the Humanities includes a new book by Professor Cathy Coleborne, Insanity, Identity and Empire. Her book engages with issues of the mobility of people across the British Empire to Australia and New Zealand in the...