Welcome to the Mobilities Lab
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.