Everyday
Life &
Justice
Transport is a means to access jobs, healthcare, education, leisure sites, and relatives and friends. It also offers freedom, generates many different feelings and emotions, and is a space where personal identities and social hierarchies are played out. For these reasons, transport shapes, and is shaped by, social inequalities. Questions of justice and inequity between individuals, social groups and places are at the heart of transport systems and infrastructure development.
Research objectives
- Understand the implications of long-term transformations in societies, such as population dynamics and changes in norms and values, for everyday travel;
- Examine how the use and design of transport systems reflect and shape social and economic inequality;
- Explore the links among use of transport systems, people's identity and norms and expectations regarding travel and social participation;
- Make active contributions to transport related policies, community actions and other initiatives that redress inequalities and empower disadvantaged groups and communities.
Current Research Projects
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Gendered commuting in Accra, GhanaFunded by John Fell Fund; 2019 - 2020; Prof Tim Schwanen |
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Fuel and Transport Poverty in the UK's Energy Transition (FAIR)Funded by CREDS, UKRI; 2019 - 2023; Dr Debbie Hopkins |
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Changing drivers: Knowing, imagining and shaping autonomous car usersFunded by British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship; 2019 - 2021; Dr Brendan Doody |
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Technologies and tensions in everyday Indian urban mobilityFunded by University of Oxford Public Engagement with Research seed fund; 2020; Dr Lucy Baker |
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Park and ChargeFunded by Innovate UK; 2019 - 2021; Prof Tim Schwanen |
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V2GO (Vehicle-to-grid Oxford)Funded by Innovate UK; 2018 - 2021; Prof Tim Schwanen |
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PEAK UrbanFunded by the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund; 2017-2022; University of Oxford with Peking University; The African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town; The Indian Institute for Human Settlements; Universidad EAFIT; Prof Tim Schwanen, Dr Lucy Baker, Dr Jacob Doherty and Dr Juan-Pablo Orjuela |
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Recent Research Projects
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Experimenting with Mobile Methods for Research with Mobile Freight WorkersFunded by John Fell Fund; 2018 - 2019; Dr Debbie Hopkins |
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Go Ultra Low Oxford (GULO) - Monitoring and Evaluation StudyFunded by the Office for Low Emissions Vehicle (OLEV); 2017 - 2019; Dr Brendan Doody |
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TEMPEST (Transforming household mobility practices through shared consumption: Low-carbon transport and sustainable energy solutions in urban areas)Funded by Research Council of Norway: Forskerprosjekt - ENERGIX (Project Number: 255430); 2017-2019; Dr Brendan Doody |
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Gender, Freight and AutomationFunded by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport; 2017 - 2018; Dr Debbie Hopkins |
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International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low Income Countries (INTALInC)Jointly funded by ESRC and Department for International Development, under the ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund; 2017 - 2018; Prof Tim Schwanen |
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The Oxford New Parents ProjectFunded by the Wellcome Trust; 2017 - 2018; Dr Jennie Middleton |
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Maximising Home DeliveryFunded by the EPSRC; 2016-2018; University of Oxford with University of Cambridge, Heriot Watt University, Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Tesco; Prof Tim Schwanen and Dr Christian Brand |
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DEsigning and Policy Implementation for encouraging Cycling and walking Trips (DEPICT)Funded by the ESRC; 2015-2018; University of Oxford with Utrecht University and University of São Paulo; Prof Tim Schwanen and Dr Denver Nixon |
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Everyday Mobilities of Visually Impaired Young PeopleFunded by the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2014-2018; Dr Jennie Middleton |
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