Social and Political Sciences
- Group summary: We are a group of social and political scientists, engineers, data scientists, geographer, and philosophers. We investigate transport and mobility using social and political perspectives with the aim of delivering effective, fair and environmentally sustainable mobility systems locally, nationally and globally.
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The ways in which mobility is organised and governed locally and globally influences the nature and distribution of the social, health, economic and environmental aspects of mobility. Given this we use the broad range of research methods to:
• Understand mobility and the transport system and its role in, and influence on people’s lives and vice versa.
• Understand policy and governance of mobility and transport – how are agendas set and policy formed?
• Investigate ways of steering policy and changing mobility to improve its social, environmental and economic impacts
• Analyse transport and energy demand, from perspectives of individuals, social practices, and governance actors.
Our staff and PhD students
Please click here for more information about our staff and click here for our PhD students.
Current Research Projects
- CARS – Connecting Administrative vehicle data for Research on Sustainable Transport
- ELEVATE
- Energy Demand Research Centre
- INFUZE - better transport for everyone
- Path2Zero
- TransiT (Twinning for Decarbonising Transport)
For more information about our current and previous projects, please click here.
Research degrees
We have opportunities for prospective postgraduate researchers on a broad range of research topics. Please browse our research staff and contact them with an outline research proposal and CV for an informal discussion.
Contact Us
Email: Dr Steve O’Hern Prof Kate Pangbourne.