Prof Charles Musselwhite
@charliemuss.bsky.social
Professor & Head of Psychology at Aberystwyth Uni. Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences. Research interests in how we connect with communities around us as we age inc transport, tech & built env. Loves prog rock, football (Swansea & Gosport fan) & cricket.
Great to see Will Barnes Quartet tonight. Impressive musicianship, some amazing crazy changes in melody and timing. Prog rock and metal influences in some excellent Welsh place based jazz. Well done Aberystwyth Arts Centre - great venue and sound. More about them here ukjazznews.com/will-barnes-...
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Great to see Will Barnes Quartet tonight. Impressive musicianship, some amazing crazy changes in melody and timing. Prog rock and metal influences in some excellent Welsh place based jazz. Well done Aberystwyth Arts Centre - great venue and sound. More about them here ukjazznews.com/will-barnes-...
Loved teaching our MSc Behaviour Change students this week — great ideas on how psychology can shape more sustainable and inclusive transport! 🚴♀️🚌 #BehaviourChange #TransportPsychology
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Loved teaching our MSc Behaviour Change students this week — great ideas on how psychology can shape more sustainable and inclusive transport! 🚴♀️🚌 #BehaviourChange #TransportPsychology
Back to see Port Talbot Town play football for the first time in 5 and a half years. It was as if I hadn’t been away. Such a sense of community in that area, like I don’t know anywhere else, despite what the town goes through. What a win over local team Lido 2 divs higher, 3-1 in the cup. #forzaptt
October 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Back to see Port Talbot Town play football for the first time in 5 and a half years. It was as if I hadn’t been away. Such a sense of community in that area, like I don’t know anywhere else, despite what the town goes through. What a win over local team Lido 2 divs higher, 3-1 in the cup. #forzaptt
Also this week I had the pleasure of visiting Surrey Uni and delivering a talk on Wales' 20mph to the Business School. Thanks Nikolas Thomopoulos for hosting. Talked about the successes (fewer collisions) alongside the challenges (selling it to the public and how it becomes a political football)
October 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Also this week I had the pleasure of visiting Surrey Uni and delivering a talk on Wales' 20mph to the Business School. Thanks Nikolas Thomopoulos for hosting. Talked about the successes (fewer collisions) alongside the challenges (selling it to the public and how it becomes a political football)
New book chapter out:ageing, transport & decarbonisation in an excellent new edited collection Towards Transport Net Zero
Take-home message:older people want to be part of the decarbonisation agenda. We need supportive policy to help with active & public transport use www.emerald.com/books/edited...
Take-home message:older people want to be part of the decarbonisation agenda. We need supportive policy to help with active & public transport use www.emerald.com/books/edited...
September 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New book chapter out:ageing, transport & decarbonisation in an excellent new edited collection Towards Transport Net Zero
Take-home message:older people want to be part of the decarbonisation agenda. We need supportive policy to help with active & public transport use www.emerald.com/books/edited...
Take-home message:older people want to be part of the decarbonisation agenda. We need supportive policy to help with active & public transport use www.emerald.com/books/edited...
Hanging out with architectural designer and urban planner le Corbusier today!
August 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hanging out with architectural designer and urban planner le Corbusier today!
Couple of radio interviews from a balcony on the South of France
BBC radio 5 live (at 2h40) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC radio Wales (at 1h10mins www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sight tests a good thing for older drivers there is evidence they work: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC radio 5 live (at 2h40) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC radio Wales (at 1h10mins www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sight tests a good thing for older drivers there is evidence they work: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Couple of radio interviews from a balcony on the South of France
BBC radio 5 live (at 2h40) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC radio Wales (at 1h10mins www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sight tests a good thing for older drivers there is evidence they work: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC radio 5 live (at 2h40) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC radio Wales (at 1h10mins www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sight tests a good thing for older drivers there is evidence they work: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And the city centre itself has train. For a city of 91000 population. The equivalent of somewhere like Chester, Bath or Hartlepool having a tram.
August 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
And the city centre itself has train. For a city of 91000 population. The equivalent of somewhere like Chester, Bath or Hartlepool having a tram.
Avignon by train. Everything a lesson in planning the UK needs to learn.
Avignon TGV station concedes a lot of passenger last/first mile to the car but area around it includes hotels, residential areas, training centres, small goods and a huge rail-road freight depot with containers.
Avignon TGV station concedes a lot of passenger last/first mile to the car but area around it includes hotels, residential areas, training centres, small goods and a huge rail-road freight depot with containers.
August 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Avignon by train. Everything a lesson in planning the UK needs to learn.
Avignon TGV station concedes a lot of passenger last/first mile to the car but area around it includes hotels, residential areas, training centres, small goods and a huge rail-road freight depot with containers.
Avignon TGV station concedes a lot of passenger last/first mile to the car but area around it includes hotels, residential areas, training centres, small goods and a huge rail-road freight depot with containers.
New retro BBC clock, second hand smoothly gliding along, in my home office, reminding me of years past as it counts forwards! Thanks @hiddenbritain.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
New retro BBC clock, second hand smoothly gliding along, in my home office, reminding me of years past as it counts forwards! Thanks @hiddenbritain.bsky.social
Enjoyable day back where much of my career begun with the excellent Centre for Transport & Society at University of the West of England - delighted to be a panel member at their excellent annual transport research symposium
July 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Enjoyable day back where much of my career begun with the excellent Centre for Transport & Society at University of the West of England - delighted to be a panel member at their excellent annual transport research symposium
Y’day journey Dublin-S.Wales.
👍 lovely chat with Nolan Bus driver - Dublin City-Port
👍 Stena crossing Dublin-Holyhead is ace
👎 Holyhead-Cardiff new trains so why only 3 coaches, no wifi or air con
👎 chaos at Cardiff station
👍 loco hauled mk 4 coach for final part:why can’t all trains be like this!
👍 lovely chat with Nolan Bus driver - Dublin City-Port
👍 Stena crossing Dublin-Holyhead is ace
👎 Holyhead-Cardiff new trains so why only 3 coaches, no wifi or air con
👎 chaos at Cardiff station
👍 loco hauled mk 4 coach for final part:why can’t all trains be like this!
June 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Y’day journey Dublin-S.Wales.
👍 lovely chat with Nolan Bus driver - Dublin City-Port
👍 Stena crossing Dublin-Holyhead is ace
👎 Holyhead-Cardiff new trains so why only 3 coaches, no wifi or air con
👎 chaos at Cardiff station
👍 loco hauled mk 4 coach for final part:why can’t all trains be like this!
👍 lovely chat with Nolan Bus driver - Dublin City-Port
👍 Stena crossing Dublin-Holyhead is ace
👎 Holyhead-Cardiff new trains so why only 3 coaches, no wifi or air con
👎 chaos at Cardiff station
👍 loco hauled mk 4 coach for final part:why can’t all trains be like this!
Best thing about a conference! Impromptu drinks with people from around the world
June 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Best thing about a conference! Impromptu drinks with people from around the world
Universities Transport Studies Group conference in Dublin has been a great.
3 papers co-presented:
🏎️ attitudes towards 20mph speed limits in wales &
🚜Rural road safety
with Burcu Tekes from Turkey
🌏Healthy ageing & transport in Asia with Guibo Sun
Now I take over as Chair for next 3 yrs!
3 papers co-presented:
🏎️ attitudes towards 20mph speed limits in wales &
🚜Rural road safety
with Burcu Tekes from Turkey
🌏Healthy ageing & transport in Asia with Guibo Sun
Now I take over as Chair for next 3 yrs!
June 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Universities Transport Studies Group conference in Dublin has been a great.
3 papers co-presented:
🏎️ attitudes towards 20mph speed limits in wales &
🚜Rural road safety
with Burcu Tekes from Turkey
🌏Healthy ageing & transport in Asia with Guibo Sun
Now I take over as Chair for next 3 yrs!
3 papers co-presented:
🏎️ attitudes towards 20mph speed limits in wales &
🚜Rural road safety
with Burcu Tekes from Turkey
🌏Healthy ageing & transport in Asia with Guibo Sun
Now I take over as Chair for next 3 yrs!
At universities transport studies group conference in Dublin, Dr Guibo Sun presents transport and healthy ageing research - including our special issue in Journal of Transport and Health you can see here www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
June 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
At universities transport studies group conference in Dublin, Dr Guibo Sun presents transport and healthy ageing research - including our special issue in Journal of Transport and Health you can see here www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Stellar adventures aboard the Stenna Adventurer yesterday meeting up with some old colleagues on our way to the Universities Transport Studies Group Conference in Dublin @drdgwilliams.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Stellar adventures aboard the Stenna Adventurer yesterday meeting up with some old colleagues on our way to the Universities Transport Studies Group Conference in Dublin @drdgwilliams.bsky.social
In this new article we identify how short term disruption to bus services effects older people’s health and wellbeing but also their independence and freedom (often previously only linked to giving up driving) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In this new article we identify how short term disruption to bus services effects older people’s health and wellbeing but also their independence and freedom (often previously only linked to giving up driving) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thanks for having us Psychology lot at Beach Lab @abercompsci.bsky.social the best Robots on the Prom event out there!
May 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Thanks for having us Psychology lot at Beach Lab @abercompsci.bsky.social the best Robots on the Prom event out there!
Great day giving the keynote at the Community Transport Wales Conference, Llandudno. Such a vibrant group playing an absolutely crucial role in society. How do we make it more sustainable and more mainstream without losing its edge!
May 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Great day giving the keynote at the Community Transport Wales Conference, Llandudno. Such a vibrant group playing an absolutely crucial role in society. How do we make it more sustainable and more mainstream without losing its edge!
Beautiful Llandudno morning.
Off to present keynote at Community Transport Wales conference at Venue Cymru. Did some of my earliest public workshops and focus groups here on road pricing and road safety back in 2007/8! Now I’m here to talk more about importance of community involvement in transport
Off to present keynote at Community Transport Wales conference at Venue Cymru. Did some of my earliest public workshops and focus groups here on road pricing and road safety back in 2007/8! Now I’m here to talk more about importance of community involvement in transport
May 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Beautiful Llandudno morning.
Off to present keynote at Community Transport Wales conference at Venue Cymru. Did some of my earliest public workshops and focus groups here on road pricing and road safety back in 2007/8! Now I’m here to talk more about importance of community involvement in transport
Off to present keynote at Community Transport Wales conference at Venue Cymru. Did some of my earliest public workshops and focus groups here on road pricing and road safety back in 2007/8! Now I’m here to talk more about importance of community involvement in transport
Went to the manic street preachers gig in Swansea last night. Not only a brilliant concert from a band I’ve loved for 33 years but this quote is why I teach at university…
May 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Went to the manic street preachers gig in Swansea last night. Not only a brilliant concert from a band I’ve loved for 33 years but this quote is why I teach at university…
You know the “elderly people” Road sign? Rather derogatory image of an ageing couple. Well it doesn’t make any difference to driver behaviour. See my latest paper. Time for it to go! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
You know the “elderly people” Road sign? Rather derogatory image of an ageing couple. Well it doesn’t make any difference to driver behaviour. See my latest paper. Time for it to go! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Excited to be talking at this year's Community Transport Association Cymru Conference in sunny Llandudno 21st May. I'll talk about the role of Community Transport in creating vibrant communities.
Free event at Venue Cymru, sign up here: ctauk.org/event/cta-cy...
Free event at Venue Cymru, sign up here: ctauk.org/event/cta-cy...
April 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Excited to be talking at this year's Community Transport Association Cymru Conference in sunny Llandudno 21st May. I'll talk about the role of Community Transport in creating vibrant communities.
Free event at Venue Cymru, sign up here: ctauk.org/event/cta-cy...
Free event at Venue Cymru, sign up here: ctauk.org/event/cta-cy...
In my latest article I use our biopsychoecosocial model of ageing from our Centre for Ageing & Dementia Research to explain the boundaries of geriatrics & gerontology are not what they seem & an emphasis on working across disciplines & sectors is needed www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
In my latest article I use our biopsychoecosocial model of ageing from our Centre for Ageing & Dementia Research to explain the boundaries of geriatrics & gerontology are not what they seem & an emphasis on working across disciplines & sectors is needed www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....