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We combine leading social theory with grounded, policy-oriented empirical research, innovation, and artistic practice. In our work with partners in diverse organisations, we develop ideas and approaches and create space and time for contesting intended and unintended consequences of changing mobilities.<\/p>\n
Cemore provides intellectual leadership and a hub for exchange for a growing transdisciplinary community of researchers, artists, designers and research \u2018users\u2019. We run the\u00a0journal Mobilities<\/a><\/em>, and two book series – Changing Mobilities <\/em><\/a>(Routledge) and Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture<\/em><\/a>, which provide the main fora for mobilities research on a global level.<\/p>\n We host intellectual debates amongst a 1000+ strong international network on our Cemore mailing list, and are a key member of the www.cosmobilities.net<\/a> network, closely associated with the Centre for Mobilities Research and Policy<\/a> at Drexel University, USA, and the Pan-American Mobilities Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cemore drives methodological innovation, including artistic practice-based research co-creation, collaborative design, Ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI)- aware design and a transdisciplinary, public sociology approach to engaged responsible research and innovation.<\/p>\n The mobilities.lab provides a local resource for transdisciplinary\u00a0R&D with \u00a3 90,000 of equipment and many international academic, public and industrial partners (including Mobile Media Lab Montreal, Public Safety Europe Network, Airbus DS). Locally, Cemore brings together over 100 researchers from across Lancaster’s Institute for Contemporary Art, Imagination, the Humanities, Computing, Sociology, Politics, the Management School, Health and Medicine as well as many community, public, and commercial partners (including the Lancashire Resilience Forum, HWCommunications (SME)).<\/p>\n Cemore initiated the new mobilities paradigm in the social sciences, arts, humanities and sciences. It was the first such centre (founded in 2003 by John Urry and Mimi Sheller) and continues to be at the heart of this burgeoning global field. Mobilities research develops a deeper and broader understanding of contemporary challenges through social science as a transdisciplinary endeavour.<\/p>\n By focusing attention on how social and material realities are made in and through the movement, blocked movement or immobility of people, goods, resources, ideas, and information, mobilities research provides unique analytical purchase. It generates novel insights into diverse mobility regimes and systems – from the intimacy of the home connected to global resource-, energy- and cargo-mobilities, to the geopolitical, material, cultural, infrastructural dynamics of disaster risk management, tourism, migration, and capitalism, to flows of pollution, transport, and automobility, and anthropogenic disruptions of planetary climate and weather.<\/p>\n Topics range from mobile work to mobile utopia, from the mobilities of food to those of money and data, from everyday practices of communication to\u00a0 transformations of intimacy, and mobility justice. Cemore has pioneered mobile methods to leverage insights as part of a public transdisciplinary social science and responsible research and innovation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_style=”solid” disabled=”off” border_color=”#ffffff”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”Gallery” gallery_ids=”648,1043,2763,2764,2589,2595,2539,2481,2337,2340,2320,2309,2234,2211,2065,2091,3334,3336,3337,3338,3341,3342,3096,2961,2931″ gallery_orderby=”rand” fullwidth=”on” posts_number=”10″ show_title_and_caption=”off” show_pagination=”off” background_layout=”light” auto=”on” hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)” caption_all_caps=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” auto_speed=”3000″ saved_tabs=”all”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Centre for Mobilities Research (Cemore) is a hub for interdisciplinary mobilities research and an international network of mobilities researchers. We pioneered the mobilities paradigm and mobile methods to study social change and innovation at multiple scales, from the everyday to the geopolitical, planetary, and interplanetary. Our work examines\u00a0contested ideas of \u2018the good life\u2019, promoting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" The study of 'mobilities' is a newly emerging interdisciplinary field in which Lancaster University is developing particular strengths. The concept of 'mobilities' encompasses both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as the more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and the travel of material things within everyday life.<\/p> Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, have elicited a number of new research initiatives for understanding the connections between these diverse mobilities.<\/p> Technological, social and cultural developments in public and private transportation, mobile communications, information storage and retrieval, surveillance systems and 'intelligent environments', are rapidly changing the nature of travel and of communications conducted at-a-distance.<\/p> As mobile connectivity begins to occur in new ways across a wide range of cyber-devices and integrated places, so we need better theorization and research, especially to examine the interdependencies between changes in physical movement and in electronic communications, and especially in their increasing convergence.<\/p> These changes are having many effects. The human body is transformed, as it is enhanced by communication devices and likely to be 'on the move'. Changes also transform the nature of 'local' communities and of the commitments people may feel to the 'nation'.<\/p> And the global order is increasingly criss-crossed by tourists, workers, terrorists, students, migrants, asylum-seekers, scientists\/ scholars, family members, business people and so on. Such multiple and intersecting mobilities seem to produce a more 'networked' patterning of economic and social life.<\/p> Moreover, many public, private and not-for-profit organizations are seeking to understand, monitor and transform aspects of these multiple mobilities. These mobilities are centrally involved in reorganizing institutions, generating climate change, moving risks and illnesses across the globe, altering travel and tourism patterns, producing a more distant family life, transforming the social and educational life of young people, connecting distant people through 'weak ties' and so on.<\/p> Such new intersecting mobilities are centre-stage within contemporary economic, social and technological developments and in generating profound policy issues, especially in how a mobile life is sustainable into the long-term.<\/p>Aims<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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