H2Oh!? How could hydrogen fuel our society and economy?
ow might we make a hydrogen society and economy work? Through public engagement and playful collective experimentation with members of the publican Lancaster and Cumbria, we are developing a better understanding of what it might mean to live in differently fuelled, zero carbon societies.
Decarbonising Workshop 18 July 2019
DecarboN8: Launch Event Thursday 18th July, 12 – 2pm, Bowland North Seminar Room 20 Join us for Lunch and find out more about DecarboN8, a new research network of northern universities. Register here:https://www.mysurveygizmo.com/s3/5091175/Launch-of-DecarboN8 Cemore...
Making IT personal: Monika Buscher and Lixiong Chen at ISCRAM 2019
Monika Buscher and Lixiong Chen are attending the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Crisis Response and Management 19-22 May 2019. Monika will present the keynote on the final day: Making IT Personal: Radically Reflexive Resilience The...
Mobilities Journal April 2019 Online Articles
The online articles published this Aprli in our journal, Mobilities, illustrate the inspiring diversity of mobilities research, showcasing the many ways mobilities concepts can be creatively applied and utilised in innovative research on interdisciplinary and...
Serious Play: Futures of Disaster Risk Management 5-7 April 2019
Monika Buscher is presenting serious gaming as a method for training incident commanders in humanitarian response, and leading a set of workshops at the Bavarian Disaster Risk Management Congress. 11. Bayerischer Katastrophenschutz-Kongress mit 7. Fachkongress...
Mobilising Social Science: ESRC IAA Launch 2 April 2019
We are excited to inform you that Lancaster University recently received formal confirmation of funding for our Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA). Cemore Director Monika Buscher, the Academic Lead for the ESRC IAA says: The...
Book Launch: Bicycle Utopias – Cosmin Popan 19 February 2019
Bicycle Utopias investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve. Drawing on literature on post-car futures (Urry 2007; Dennis and Urry 2009), transition...
Cemore Showcase 26th February 2019
The CeMoRe February Showcase and lunch will be on 26th February 13.00-14.45 in LICA A27 and the LICA Foyer, Lancaster University. This is event is open to all who would like to attend and watch the presentations. If you want to be sure of sufficient lunch, and to...
Mobilising Research 1st February 2019
Monika is discussing her ideas on a great mobilities transformation and the need to mobilise research at a Symposium on Mobilities and Transformation: Understanding Societies, Economies, and Environments on the Move at the doctorate school “On the move: people,...
20th Public Safety Communications Conference at CeMoRe 5-6 June 2019
The 20th PSCE Conference will take place in Lancaster, UK, on 4-6 June 2019, in collaboration with Lancaster University. PSCE, the Public Safety Communications Europe Forum was established as a result of a European Commission funded project in 2008. Since then, PSCE...
Is there an App for that? Data Mobilities and Disaster CeMoRe @ Campus in the City: 9 and 13th March 2019
Imagine how communities and emergency agencies will respond to disasters like Storm Desmond in the future. Mobile technologies, drones, sensors, artificial intelligence, data analysis and mapping techniques will play an ever greater role, as will citizen...
Therapeutic Mobilities: Mobilities Special Issue February 2019
This Special Issue published in February 2019 expands mobilities research through the idea of therapeutic mobilities. Therapeutic mobilities consist of multiple movements of health-related things and beings, including, though not limited to, nurses, doctors, patients,...
Thiago Allis, University of São Paulo, Brazil, John Urry Fellow Seminar: “Tourism Mobilities”
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...
Making IT Personal: Radically Reflexive Resilience Monika Buscher Keynote @ISCRAM 2019 22-
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 Internet of Public Safety Things: Use Cases
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...
‘Walking out’: The Mobilities of Love
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...
Monika Buscher: How to Make IT Good? 21st February 2019
How to make IT good? Developing digital ethics as an engine for innovation Smart Transport, smart cities, smart sustainability endeavours put great trust in data and technology. However, to realise the potential of big data and IT effectively and responsibly, we must...
Bogotá’s innovative and ingenious mobilities
Regarded as one of the most mobility innovative cities in the Global South, Bogotá boasts the most extensive cycle network in Latin America, the most efficient bus rapid transit system in the world (TransMilenio) and the oldest mass cycle parade, the famous Ciclovía....