Cosmin Popan, doctoral candidate in Sociology, tells us what's mobile about researching bicycles and alternative mobility systems. My PhD thesis investigates the possibilities for everyday urban cycling to become a socio-technical system that...
Traditionally, a woman’s place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waveson everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their daring story is barely...
"Future Perfect: Retheorising Utopia", Ch. 8 from Ruth Levitas' The Concept of Utopia, 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The second reading of our Utopia-themed mobilities meetings. Thanks to Richard Tutton for the suggestion! Everyone is invited to attend...
Why are Government culling badgers for the sake of bovine Tuberculosis? How does badger culling affect badger and disease mobility across the country? Jess Phoenix, PhD student at Lancaster, tries to answer these questions in this blog post. My PhD focuses upon...
"Geolocation and Video Ethnography: Capturing Mobile Internet Used by a Commuter" by Voilmy, Smoreda & Ziemlicki, 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). Thanks to Visiting PhD Zofia Bednarowska for the suggestion. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the...
Thomas More's Utopia will be discussed at this joint ISF/Mobilities Reading Group, 4-5PM, FASS Building, Meeting Room 1. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the discussion! The book is available in various formats here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2130
The upcoming Mobilities Reading Group will take place Wednesday, 9 March from 4PM-5PM in the Mobilities Lab (Bowland North B37, Lancaster University). This week’s reading is Eric Laurier, Barry Brown,, and Moira McGregor's "Mediated Pedestrian Mobility: Walking and...
First of all I would like to express my gratitude for granting me the CeMoRe Visiting Fellowship 2014. When I decided to apply for it after the 10th year anniversary conference at CeMoRe in 2013 I actually had quite forgotten how much one can benefit from a visiting...
To understand the future of mobility we must prioritise all of the social activities and associated material infrastructures that create a need to be in particular places at particular times, argues our guest blogger today, professor James Faulconbridge. There...