Inviting Movements: Emerging Critical Disability & Deaf Perspectives and Practices
5th May from 4pm, Bowland North, Seminar Room 01 CeMoRe and CeDR are hosting a live video link to this seminar in Montreal. A live Q&A session will be hosted by Owen Chapman who is a CeMoRe visiting fellow and co-director of the Community and Differential...
Creating A Mobile Utopia
Last week, CeMoRe co-organised the workshop Mobile Utopia. One day of intense play to imagine and develop utopias of everyday life for 2051. Georgia Newmarch reports. Object-based thinking encourages an exploration of how we place importance on aspects of our...
4 May 2016 Mobilities Reading
"The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study" by Elena Semino et al. 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). Elena will join us to participate in discussion of this reading....
Seeing Revolutionary Info-Structure
Adam Fish blogs about how flying a camera-equipped drone over a data center can improve our infrastructural literacy.
Bicycles, cinema and the spectacle of mechanical movement
Bruce Bennett, Senior Lecturer at LICA, is doing research on a very convivial tandem: bicycles and cinema. He tells our readers why the bicycle was the perfect subject for the first film, in 1895. I am currently studying the history of cycling on screen, and in...
What’s mobile: Bicycle systems
Cosmin Popan, doctoral candidate in Sociology, tells us what’s mobile about researching bicycles and alternative mobility systems.
From Cabin ‘Boys’ to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea
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...
Low Carbon Innovation in China
The ESRC project Low Carbon Innovation in China: Prospects, Politics and Practice held the closing workshop of its research package on urban e-mobilities at the Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University.
6 April 2016 Mobilities Reading
"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...
Badger Culling and Perturbation
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...
What’s mobile: Researching disasters
Monika Büscher, professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and the director of the Centre for Mobilities Research, tells us what’s mobile about researching floods and earthquakes.
23 March 2016 Mobilities Reading
"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
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
Curating and reflecting upon a mobile interdisciplinary field
Allison Hui and James Faulconbridge have co-ordinated the 10th anniversary special issue of Mobilities journal.
Transitions and forms of engagement in single migrants’ lives
Maude Gauthier writes about her current research on the migration of singles while reflecting on how mobilities studies can help her in the process.
The (im)mobilities of Storm Desmond
Satya Savitzky uses his own experience of the flooding to blog about the series of ‘scrambles’ occurring in the aftermath of the dramatic events in Lancaster.
9 March 2016: Mediated Pedestrian Mobility: Walking and the Map App
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...
Historical Mobilities
Are alternative ways of modelling the relationship between past, present and future in order to move historical and/or text-based mobilities research rather more to the centre?