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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.