Transport – a demanding transition: inaugural lecture by Professor Kate Pangbourne
Professor Kate Pangbourne, the new Chair of Transport Transitions at the Institute for Transport Studies, will give her inaugural lecture on February 5 at the University of Leeds.
In this inaugural lecture, Kate Pangbourne, the new Chair of Transport Transitions at the Institute for Transport Studies, will set out an interdisciplinary research agenda for addressing the decarbonisation, social justice and environmental challenges in transport.
Hear about the career transitions that have led her to this role, forged from the usual vicissitudes of life, a highly interdisciplinary set of work experiences, and a profound concern for people and the planet which is our only home.
She will weave this into an exploration of the demanding nature of the urgent need to transition from our current transport system and way of life, away from hypermobilities, unsustainable resource consumption and the biodiversity catastrophe. Environmental concerns beginning before the ground-breaking Rio Conference of 1992 lie at the heart of Kate’s varied work.
Over the past 15 years, Kate has
- researched detailed case studies of the changing structures of transport governance in Scotland
- carried out comparative work on the evolving socio-technical imaginaries of European countries positioning themselves as leaders in the pursuit of self-driving vehicles
- used experiments to understand the persuasive nature (or not) of voluntary travel behaviour change messaging aimed at individuals
- surveyed the public response to travel applications such as mobility as a service
- critiqued the implications of smart mobility and identified challenges for steering outcomes for a safer future.
