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📢 Next week: A talk on 'Constructing Just Mobility Futures' by our own @trivikrama.bsky.social! Join us in person next Wednesday, 12th November @1:00 PM for what is sure to be an excellent conversation.
Geography seminar series, Join us Wednesday 12th November 1:00 PM in EHB205 for Constructing Just Mobility Futures: Mobility is a key determinant of urban wellbeing. It shapes access to services, opportunities, social safety, care, and community. Mobility today is misaligned with needs of society, worsening inequalities in access and increasing reliance on car infrastructure. In a period of increasing inequality and ageing, as service geographies reorganise, care roles evolve, and environmental pollution worsens, future mobility needs will undergo massive changes. The prevailing “predict-and-provide” paradigm in transit planning is based on past demand patterns and is too narrow. Datasets that quantify travel demand (e.g., Origin-Destination (OD) matrices, travel demand survey, travel diaries) have long mirrored the journeys of a stereotypical male commuter, reinforcing only priorities of formal economic work. Treating mobility as aggregate behaviour then erases barriers faced by many others. As a result, people whose needs are poorly reflected, such as lower income women making chained care trips, older adults seeking community services, those with disabilities, children, and night-time workers on off-peak schedules, are systematically underserved and socially excluded. Optimising solely for economic efficiency deepens inequality and car-dependence, which is environmentally unsustainable and fiscally costly, and happening everywhere in the UK. A futures-oriented approach is therefore required – one that begins from lived constraints and explicit social objectives, and tests alternative pathways under physical and environmental limits. In this talk, I will present some recent work from The Netherlands and South Africa exploring the inequalities that people face in movement, the data ecosystems that allow us to understand them, and participatory methods of constructing just mobility futures for all.
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Climate, Energy and Humanitarian Action | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University
Taught by passionate experts, this MSc, co-developed and co-taught with the United Nations Institute for Research and Training, offers global insights from leading practitioners in sustainable develop...
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July 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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The Master's offers global insights from leading scholars and practitioners in sustainable development and humanitarian action, including @lborouniversity.bsky.social's world-leading STEER Centre with its flagship programmes @ccgprogramme.bsky.social (CCG) and Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS).
July 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Climate Change, Energy and Humanitarian Action | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University
Taught by passionate experts, this MSc, co-developed and co-taught with the United Nations Institute for Research and Training, offers global insights from leading practitioners in sustainable develop...
www.lboro.ac.uk
June 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The programme offers global insights from leading practitioners in sustainable development and humanitarian action, including @lborouniversity.bsky.social's world-leading STEER Centre with its flagship research programmes @ccgprogramme.bsky.social (CCG) and Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS).
June 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM