Mobilities: August 2019 Issue 4
Mobilities: August 2019 Issue 4 A curated collection on the theme of 'digital technologies': Digital navigation and the driving-machine: Supervision, calculation, optimization, recognition Sam Hind Anticipating digital futures: Ruins, entanglements and possibilities...
DecarboN8 Network Launch 25th November 2019
25th November (Leeds) DecarboN8 Launch Event An introduction to DecarboN8’s place-based approach to decarbonisation for transport across the North of England. A full day event including insight from leading researchers and organisations in the field as well as...
Hartmut Rosa: Annual John Urry Lecture 31 October 2019
Hartmut Rosa: Annual John Urry Lecture
Care for Sale Talk 2nd December 2019
Care for Sale Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews Monday 2nd December 2019 Lancaster University Bowland North SR05, 14.00-16.00 In homes and brothels around the world, migrant women are selling a unique commodity:...
From Climate Migration to Anthropocene Mobilities Special Issue June 2019
From Climate Migration to Anthropocene Mobilities: Shifting the Debate Edited by Christiane Froehlich, Andrew Baldwin and Delf Rothe “The Anthropocene epoch,” as Claire Colebrook describes it, “appears to mark as radical a shift in species awareness as Darwinian...
Mobilities: October 2019 Issue 5
Mobilities: October 2019 Issue 5 This bumper issue includes a diverse geographical spread with some linked articles. When urban environments meet pedestrian’s thoughts: implications for pedestrian affect. Thomas Calvert, Juliet Jain & Kiron Chatterjee ‘Running on...
A Scholar on the Move: Key Reflections of a Visiting Researcher
When I was about to finish my PhD in Australia, I had already been thinking of visiting the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University. My intention was partly driven by my interest in meeting scholars working in the field of mobilities....
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...