Gaurav Mittal
@gauravmittal.bsky.social
Urban Political Geographer | Researcher @tsuoxford.bsky.social | JRF @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social | Early Career Editor @rsa-tpg.bsky.social | Secretary @tgrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social | Research interests: transport governance, just transitions, political economy
@tgrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social is happy to present the series of essays from award-winning postgrad presentations at this year's @rgsibg.bsky.social conference. The winner was @yifan-liu.bsky.social from @tsuoxford.bsky.social.
Please read her post on why gender matters in car-sharing services here:
Please read her post on why gender matters in car-sharing services here:
PGR Prize at RGS-IBG 2025: Yi Fan Liu
At this year’s RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Yi Fan Liu, a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, won the PGR Prize for Best Postgraduate Presentation. We are delighted to shar…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
@tgrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social is happy to present the series of essays from award-winning postgrad presentations at this year's @rgsibg.bsky.social conference. The winner was @yifan-liu.bsky.social from @tsuoxford.bsky.social.
Please read her post on why gender matters in car-sharing services here:
Please read her post on why gender matters in car-sharing services here:
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We're excited to announce a series of guest blog posts by our PGR prize winners from this year's #RGSIBG25 conference! ✍️ 📜
First post, first place, Yi Fan Liu @yifan-liu.bsky.social:
🚘Why does gender matter in car-sharing services? 🚗
Read her post here! transportgeography.org.uk/2025/10/20/p...
First post, first place, Yi Fan Liu @yifan-liu.bsky.social:
🚘Why does gender matter in car-sharing services? 🚗
Read her post here! transportgeography.org.uk/2025/10/20/p...
October 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
We're excited to announce a series of guest blog posts by our PGR prize winners from this year's #RGSIBG25 conference! ✍️ 📜
First post, first place, Yi Fan Liu @yifan-liu.bsky.social:
🚘Why does gender matter in car-sharing services? 🚗
Read her post here! transportgeography.org.uk/2025/10/20/p...
First post, first place, Yi Fan Liu @yifan-liu.bsky.social:
🚘Why does gender matter in car-sharing services? 🚗
Read her post here! transportgeography.org.uk/2025/10/20/p...
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Great to see recent research from @sgyucel.bsky.social & @timschwanen.bsky.social highlighted in Nature Climate Change. bsky.app/profile/sgyu...
⭐ Fantastic to see recent work w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social featured as a Research Highlight in the latest issue of Nature Climate Change. In this work, we examine how people across the Pacific Northwest of North America adapt their various everyday activities to cope with the threat of heatwaves.
September 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Great to see recent research from @sgyucel.bsky.social & @timschwanen.bsky.social highlighted in Nature Climate Change. bsky.app/profile/sgyu...
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We have officially published our list of sponsored sessions for
@rgsibg.bsky.social AC2025! 🎉🎉 Repost if you're presenting with us, or if you're just dead excited to attend... We'll see you all there 👋 full list on our website below!
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@rgsibg.bsky.social AC2025! 🎉🎉 Repost if you're presenting with us, or if you're just dead excited to attend... We'll see you all there 👋 full list on our website below!
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July 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We have officially published our list of sponsored sessions for
@rgsibg.bsky.social AC2025! 🎉🎉 Repost if you're presenting with us, or if you're just dead excited to attend... We'll see you all there 👋 full list on our website below!
transportgeography.org.uk/2025/07/23/t...
@rgsibg.bsky.social AC2025! 🎉🎉 Repost if you're presenting with us, or if you're just dead excited to attend... We'll see you all there 👋 full list on our website below!
transportgeography.org.uk/2025/07/23/t...
🚨 We’re hiring for the Just Transitions on Indian Streets project!
🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
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🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
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Work With Us - National Law School of India University
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July 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🚨 We’re hiring for the Just Transitions on Indian Streets project!
🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)
📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.
Apply & share!
www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
🚨 New project!
Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action.
Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India.
Postdoc & RA openings soon!
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/streets...
Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action.
Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India.
Postdoc & RA openings soon!
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/streets...
From the Streets Up: New Project Tackles Urban Inequality in India’s Climate Action
India is facing the twin challenges of climate change and ongoing growth of its urban population. The pressures both challenges create play out first and foremost on city streets. They are places wher...
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July 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 New project!
Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action.
Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India.
Postdoc & RA openings soon!
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/streets...
Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action.
Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India.
Postdoc & RA openings soon!
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/streets...
This event is scheduled for tomorrow, between 12:30 and 2:00 pm UK time, or between 5:00 and 6:30 pm India time. Please register and join!
🚨 Webinar Alert | Beyond the EV Fix: Rethinking Low-Carbon Transitions in Popular Transport
We ask, "How can informal mobility systems be transformed to be both low-carbon & socially just?"
🗓️ 26 June | 12:30–14:00 BST
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
We ask, "How can informal mobility systems be transformed to be both low-carbon & socially just?"
🗓️ 26 June | 12:30–14:00 BST
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
Beyond the EV Fix: Rethinking Low-Carbon Transitions in Popular Transport
This webinar explores the political economy of low-carbon transitions in popular transport systems
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June 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This event is scheduled for tomorrow, between 12:30 and 2:00 pm UK time, or between 5:00 and 6:30 pm India time. Please register and join!
🚨 Webinar Alert | Beyond the EV Fix: Rethinking Low-Carbon Transitions in Popular Transport
We ask, "How can informal mobility systems be transformed to be both low-carbon & socially just?"
🗓️ 26 June | 12:30–14:00 BST
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
We ask, "How can informal mobility systems be transformed to be both low-carbon & socially just?"
🗓️ 26 June | 12:30–14:00 BST
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
Beyond the EV Fix: Rethinking Low-Carbon Transitions in Popular Transport
This webinar explores the political economy of low-carbon transitions in popular transport systems
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June 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🚨 Webinar Alert | Beyond the EV Fix: Rethinking Low-Carbon Transitions in Popular Transport
We ask, "How can informal mobility systems be transformed to be both low-carbon & socially just?"
🗓️ 26 June | 12:30–14:00 BST
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
We ask, "How can informal mobility systems be transformed to be both low-carbon & socially just?"
🗓️ 26 June | 12:30–14:00 BST
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...
Partha Mukhopadhyay writes about the urban governance in India: "Not only is urban governance not representative, it is often also performative. Like anti-smog guns, they have limited effectiveness but look modern and give the appearance of action."
Read: www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/202...
Read: www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/202...
Why bigger may not be better for Indian cities
Disparate events in recent weeks have offered a window into how India’s governing class, regardless of party, sees our cities.On May 15, the Greater Bengaluru A
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June 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Partha Mukhopadhyay writes about the urban governance in India: "Not only is urban governance not representative, it is often also performative. Like anti-smog guns, they have limited effectiveness but look modern and give the appearance of action."
Read: www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/202...
Read: www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/202...
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Join us to explore the political economy of low-carbon transitions in popular transport systems that underpin everyday mobility across much of the Global South. Book now! @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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June 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Join us to explore the political economy of low-carbon transitions in popular transport systems that underpin everyday mobility across much of the Global South. Book now! @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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My humble contribution to the “taxi mafia vs ride-hailing apps” debate — why we need to move beyond binaries & rethink mobility governance in India, for both drivers & passengers.
scroll.in/article/1083...
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The key question missing in India’s debate over ‘taxi mafia’ and ride-hailing apps
Cities have failed to build mobility systems that are fair and accountable towards drivers and passengers.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
My humble contribution to the “taxi mafia vs ride-hailing apps” debate — why we need to move beyond binaries & rethink mobility governance in India, for both drivers & passengers.
scroll.in/article/1083...
scroll.in/article/1083...
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There's still time to sign up for next week's panel session.
Sign up to hear this interdisciplinary panel re-centre time – rather than space – as the key to understanding migration, precarity, and agency. Booking required. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
Migration through Time: Individual and Collective Memories
This interdisciplinary panel re-centres time – rather than space – as the key to understanding migration, precarity, and agency.
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May 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
There's still time to sign up for next week's panel session.
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Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏
⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025
📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au
📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025
📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au
📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Social & Cultural Geography is seeking a new Editor. We hope that you might be keen to join our lovely team! 🙏
⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025
📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au
📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
⏰ Closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025
📬 Applications should be sent to the journal’s editorial office at scg-jrnl@unimelb.edu.au
📄 Full details: go.unimelb.edu.au/uy8p
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‼️Do you know a talented undergraduate student who has recently completed their dissertation on a transport topic?🗒️💯
We are seeking nominations from departments for our undergraduate dissertation prize! 🏆🚈✨ Deadline 15 July - more information on submissions here: www.rgs.org/research/res...
We are seeking nominations from departments for our undergraduate dissertation prize! 🏆🚈✨ Deadline 15 July - more information on submissions here: www.rgs.org/research/res...
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May 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
‼️Do you know a talented undergraduate student who has recently completed their dissertation on a transport topic?🗒️💯
We are seeking nominations from departments for our undergraduate dissertation prize! 🏆🚈✨ Deadline 15 July - more information on submissions here: www.rgs.org/research/res...
We are seeking nominations from departments for our undergraduate dissertation prize! 🏆🚈✨ Deadline 15 July - more information on submissions here: www.rgs.org/research/res...
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Hello Bluesky! We are the @rgsibg.bsky.social Transport Geography Research Group. 🗺️🚇 Follow us for updates on our sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference and posts on the latest research across transport geography...
May 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Hello Bluesky! We are the @rgsibg.bsky.social Transport Geography Research Group. 🗺️🚇 Follow us for updates on our sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference and posts on the latest research across transport geography...
This event is in two days. Registration is compulsory. Please register and join us!
This event will take place on 15th May. The authors will discuss their newly published book, Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan. Maryam A. Malik will chair the session.
Please register to learn about various facets of Lahore's first metro rail corridor.
Please register to learn about various facets of Lahore's first metro rail corridor.
We are delighted to host Dr Chris Moffat, Dr Ammara Maqsood & Fizzah Sajjad next week, where there will be discussing key themes around their recently published "Lahore in Motion". Online only. Book now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-transp...
May 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This event is in two days. Registration is compulsory. Please register and join us!
This event will take place on 15th May. The authors will discuss their newly published book, Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan. Maryam A. Malik will chair the session.
Please register to learn about various facets of Lahore's first metro rail corridor.
Please register to learn about various facets of Lahore's first metro rail corridor.
We are delighted to host Dr Chris Moffat, Dr Ammara Maqsood & Fizzah Sajjad next week, where there will be discussing key themes around their recently published "Lahore in Motion". Online only. Book now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-transp...
The Transport Studies Unit, Oxford - "Walking Lahore’s Orange Line"
Dr Chris Moffat, Dr Ammara Maqsood & Fizzah Sajjad will be discussing key themes around their recently published "Lahore in Motion"
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May 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This event will take place on 15th May. The authors will discuss their newly published book, Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan. Maryam A. Malik will chair the session.
Please register to learn about various facets of Lahore's first metro rail corridor.
Please register to learn about various facets of Lahore's first metro rail corridor.
Wrote a short piece for Australian Outlook with my colleague Festival Boateng on Africa's changing vehicle end-of-life burden.
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Africa’s Used Vehicle Dependency: A Complicated Double-Edged Phenomenon - Australian Institute of International Affairs
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May 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Wrote a short piece for Australian Outlook with my colleague Festival Boateng on Africa's changing vehicle end-of-life burden.
www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
Please read @valenmontoya.bsky.social’s powerful piece on women cross-border commuters between Venezuela and Colombia. We need to pay more attention to how illegalities/informalities are socially produced!
On Walk to Work Day, @valenmontoya.bsky.social highlights an example of commuting that isn't so straightforward. #walktoworkday @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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"The good ones cross over the bridge, and the bad ones go underneath."
On Walk to Work Day, Valentina Montoya Robledo highlights the story of women who cross the Colombia-Venezuela border every day to work.
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April 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please read @valenmontoya.bsky.social’s powerful piece on women cross-border commuters between Venezuela and Colombia. We need to pay more attention to how illegalities/informalities are socially produced!
@tsuoxford.bsky.social's next Leadership programme is focused on Climate Change. Great opportunity to learn from leading scholars and practitioners. Scholarships, subsidies, and bursaries available for applicants in need. Last date to apply: 10th March.
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/course/clima...
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Global Challenges in Transport: Climate Change mitigation and adaptation
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February 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
@tsuoxford.bsky.social's next Leadership programme is focused on Climate Change. Great opportunity to learn from leading scholars and practitioners. Scholarships, subsidies, and bursaries available for applicants in need. Last date to apply: 10th March.
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/course/clima...
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/course/clima...
It is definitely a huge win for small apps in India such as Namma Yatri. But this decision should be scrutinised further. If Uber thinks SaaS is the future model in ride-hailing space, why not implement it for taxis as well?
www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/ub...
www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/ub...
Uber introduces zero-commission model for auto drivers
Uber introduces subscription model for auto drivers in response to industry trend, aligning with competitors Namma Yatri and Rapido.
www.thehindubusinessline.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is definitely a huge win for small apps in India such as Namma Yatri. But this decision should be scrutinised further. If Uber thinks SaaS is the future model in ride-hailing space, why not implement it for taxis as well?
www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/ub...
www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/ub...
It happens in two days. Please register if you haven't!
Join us to hear Prof Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, reflect on researching active travel. She will discuss the changes that she has studied in London’s cycling and walking environments, and what we might expect and hope for in the future. Sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unequal-mo...
Unequal mobilities: reflections on researching active travel
Professor Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster for the TSU Seminar Series, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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We, at @tsuoxford.bsky.social, are excited to host Dr Daniel Agbiboa from @harvard.edu for our first seminar of the Public Seminar Series 2025 on 23rd January. The session will be chaired by @valenmontoya.bsky.social. Please join in!
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Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity
Dr Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University kicks off the TSU Seminar Series for 2025
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January 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
We, at @tsuoxford.bsky.social, are excited to host Dr Daniel Agbiboa from @harvard.edu for our first seminar of the Public Seminar Series 2025 on 23rd January. The session will be chaired by @valenmontoya.bsky.social. Please join in!
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A little late in posting this, but happy to share my recent article with Prerona Das and Jasnea Sarma on borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India
An epicentre of ethnicity-based identity politics and exclusions, India's northeastern region has long been politically imagined as both a ‘frontier’ and ‘borderland’ for state control, territorializ...
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January 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A little late in posting this, but happy to share my recent article with Prerona Das and Jasnea Sarma on borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...