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Socio-spatial Inequalities, Transport and Mobilities

TSU Seminar Series - Hilary Term 2012

The following seminars on the theme of Socio-spatial inequalities, transport and mobilities will be delivered from 5pm - 7pm on Wednesdays during Hilary Term 2012 in the Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, School of Geography and the Environment.

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Week 1: 5pm, 18 January 2012, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

Unequal Mobility and its Social Consequences.

Dr Karen Lucas, Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Week 2: 5pm, 25 January 2012, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

Automobile Subjects

Dr Katharina Manderscheid, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universität Luzern.

Week 3: 5pm, 1 February 2012, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

Transport and Daily Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring young people's experiences.

Dr Gina Porter, Department of Anthropology, Durham University.

Week 4: 5pm, 8 February 2012, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

Transport Is Social Policy: Focus on higher education in the UK context.

Dr Susan Kenyon.

Week 5: 5pm, 15 February 2012, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

The Prosthetic Citizen: Forms of citizenship for a mobile world.

Professor Tim Cresswell, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Week 6: 5pm, 22 February 2012, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

Auto-Disabilities: The case of shared space environments.

Professor Robert Imrie, Department of Geography, King's College, University of London.

Week 7: 5pm, 29 February 2012, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

Breathing Unequally: Environmental justice and transport-related air pollution.

Professor Gordon Walker, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University.

Week 8: 5pm, 7 March 2012, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

Gender and Transport, the Neglected Dimension: Social inclusion, access and sustainable urban mobility.

Professor Margaret Grieco, Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University.

Week 9: 5pm, 14 March 2012, Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, SoGE

Bodies, Buses and Bureaucracy: Reflections on common interests in disability rights and service provision.

Dr Ruth Butler, Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull.