1. Faculty of Environment
  2. Institute for Transport Studies
  3. Alumni
  4. Alumni international seminars

Alumni international seminars

Transport alumni presenters

We invited some of our international alumni to give seminars on a variety of transport topics, drawing from a range of industry experiences. You can listen back to a diverse range of topics below:

  • “From class assignments to real-life projects: how I’ve applied what I learned at Leeds” – presented by Elena Chiari, MSc (Eng) Transport Planning and Engineering, 2013. Listen back here
     
  • “Transport is growing, so is the need of transport professionals: the case of an Ecuadorian student” – presented by Galo Cardenas, MSc Sustainability in Transport, 2015. Listen back here
     
  • ”Impacts of Covid-19 in Buenos Aires City transportation” – presented by Lucila Capelli, MSc (Eng) Transport Planning and the Environment, 2015. Listen back here
     
  • “Rethinking Transport & Sustainable Mobility in the Automotive City" – presented by Karen Gonzalez, MSc Transport and the Environment, 2018. Listen back here
     
  • “Logistics and Freight Transportation” – presented by Syed Abdul Rahman, MSc Transport Planning 2013 and MA Transport Economics, 2014. Listen back here
     
  • “Transport services in Latin America and the Caribbean; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” – presented by Eugenia Rivas, MSc Transport Economics, 2015. Listen back here
     
  • “Tactical Urbanism/Innovating Streets” –presented by Courtney Groundwater, MSc (Eng) Transport Planning and Engineering, 2013. Listen back here
     
  • “Urban matters, resilience and climate” - presented by Alex Ryan, MSc Sustainability in Transport 2015 listen back here
     
  • “Visualising Success: Understanding the Role of Microsimulation Modelling in Transport Planning” - presented by Marie Godward, MSc Transport Planning & the Environment 2018. Listen back here
     
  • “Transport and the triple injustice: The role of transport policy in tackling inequality and climate change during Covid-19 recovery” - presented by Malithi Fernando, MSc Transport Planning 2019. Listen back here
     
  • “On-demand transport & COVID19 - Keeping people mobile during the pandemic” - presented by Adria Ramirez Papell, MSc (Eng) Transport Planning & Engineering & Irene Cobian MSc Sustainability in Transport 2015. Listen back here
     
  • “Managing Scotland's Railway” – presented by Alex Hynes, BA Economics (LUBS) 1998. Listen back here
     
  • “Working in the rail industry in Chile and the UK. Parallels and differences” - presented by Domingo Kauak Alaff, MSc Rail Operations, Management & Policy 2020. Listen back here
     
  • “Transport Planning through Indian case studies” - presented by Padma Seetharaman, PhD 2015. Listen back here
     
  • “Day to day life of a transport planner” presented by Rosie Ward, MSc Transport Planning 2016. Listen back here
     
  • “Different pathways into transport consulting" - presented by Ariel Jorre de St. Jorre (MSc Transport Planning 2019), Carlos Caro (MSc Transport Economics 2017), and Panagiotis Palantas (MSc Eng Transport Planning & Engineering 2019). Listen back here
     
  • "Active Travel: The Future of Movement and Modal Shift" - presented by Kit Allwinter, MScTransport Planning 2013. Listen back here
     
  • “Modelling Road Electrification with System Dynamics" presented by Jonatan Gomez Vilchez, MSc Transport Economics 2009. Listen back here
     
  • "Electrification Strategy and Action Plan for public transport and intermediate public transport in Indian cities" presented by Shalini Sinha, MSc Transport Planning & Engineering 2004. Listen back here
     
  • "Decarbonising road transport and the need for national road user charging" presented by Edward Leigh, MSc Transport Economics, 2019. Listen back here
     
  • "The Williams Review and the Williams-Shapps Plan for ‘Great British Railways" presented by Dick Fearn, MA Transport Economics 1985. Listen back here
     
  • "My Employability Experiences part 1" presented by Elena Soboleva (MSc Transport Planning 2019) and Sarah Krauze (MSc Sustainability in Transport 2019). Listen back here
     
  • "My Employability Experiences part 2" presented by Ahmad Huneidi (MSc (Eng) Transport Planning and Engineering 2014) and Lucia Southworth (MSc Sustainability in Transport 2020). Listen back here
     
  • "My academic and employment journey from Pakistan to the UK" presented by Sanwal Ali, MSc Transport Planning and Engineering 2020. Listen back here
     
  • “The transferability of the aerotropolis concept from the Global North to Brazil” presented by Anna Pereira PhD 2020. Listen back here
     
  • "Alternative funding models for transport infrastructure development: the case of Namibia" presented by Naville Geiriseb, MSc Transport Economics 2019. Listen back here
     
  • "Working as a transport planner for a local authority: challenges and opportunities in Birmingham" presented by Ioanna Moscholidou, MSc Sustainability in Transport 2014 and PhD 2022. Listen back here
     
  • "Road Safety Challenges in Latin America” presented by Alvaro Guzman, MSc Sustainability in Transport 2010 and PhD 2016. Listen back here
     
  • “Traffic Demand Management through the Singapore Road Pricing system – studying evidence of cognitive biases prevalent in consumer behaviours” presented by Wee Ping Koh, MSc (Eng) Transport Planning and Engineering 2017. Listen back here