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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Supporting sustainable transport for frontline workers during COVID-19Funded by Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC); 2022 - 2024; Prof Tim Schwanen and Dr Zahra Zarabi |
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Digitalization for Sustainability: Science in DialogueFunded by Robert Bosch Foundation; 2021 - 2022; Prof Tim Schwanen |
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Urban Development, Energy infrastructure and Sustainable MObility (UDESMO)Funded by ESRC; 2022 - 2023; Prof Tim Schwanen |
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Toward Age-Friendly Communities: Planning for Mobilities of CareFunded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada; 2021 - 2024; Dr Léa Ravensbergen Prof Tim Schwanen |
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New Approaches to Transport UnaffordabilityFunded by the John Fell Fund; 2021 - 2024; Dr Anna Plyushteva |
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Inclusive Transition to Electric Mobility (ITEM)Funded by ESRC and relevant national bodies in Norway, the Netherlands and Poland as part of JPI-ERANET; 2021 - 2024; Dr Hannah Budnitz |
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Inclusive Transport Infrastructure AppraisalFunded by the University of Oxford ESRC Impact Acceleration Account; 2020 - 2023; Dr Anna Plyushteva |
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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 - 2022; Dr Brendan Doody |
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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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