Trivik Verma
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Trivik Verma
@trivikrama.bsky.social
Professor at Loughborough
Occasionally with NatGeo

cities, inequalities, and justice

https://trivikverma.com/
✨ I’m excited to share our new open-access article in @geoopenaccess.bsky.social, led by Juliana Gonçalves and with wonderful arts-based research by Namrata Narendra.

The editorial process has been amazing - so thankful to the team for offering both very meaningful feedback and being fair to us.
September 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
✨ I’m pleased to share that I’ve been appointed Professor of Just Urban Futures in the Dept. of Geography and Environment at @lborouniversity.bsky.social

I’m also excited to work with the Climate Compatible Growth #CCG team, who are pretty radical in their impact.

It's been a warm first week :)
September 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
2. Invisible Women by @ccriadoperez.bsky.social is a data gem reminding us that men only think about men in science, technology, policy, or advocacy, at home or at work, about the past or the future.

A must must read and reflect for every man.
May 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Making time for more reading in 2025. I am going to share some books that have really impacted my thinking about the world.

1. Academic Outsider by Victoria Reyes reminds academia is very wealthy and male, distant from most people’s lives, & not very progressive. There is hope though!
May 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Pleased 😇 to share work on how #segregation research is epistemologically interdependent with prevalent economic theories neglecting systems that maintain #inequality.

A glimpse into the commissioned artwork by Namrata Narendra and 🙏🏽 to A Vybornova for sharing her ideas.

arxiv.org/abs/2505.01830
May 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sharing new preprint "Reclaiming Data Science for Just Geographies" with co-authors Laura, Juliana and @caitrobin.bsky.social, & fab contributions from artist Namrata N.

We call for a critical approach to data science that brings justice at the centre of analysis.

🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
April 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
At the lovely @lorentzcenter.bsky.social this week for the #Urban River Transformations workshop.

We just opened a can of worms that leads us to the Lea River in the UK, a highly industrialised and deregulated corridor of pollution that goes to the Thames, and then the Sea.
No neighbours, so BAU.
April 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reaching Zurich after ten hours of rest/work/window sightseeing and fun chatter with strangers.
February 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Changing station in Paris is easy. Get on the RER and it’s two stops to Gare de Lyon. Biking might also be feasible, although not much time between trains to experiment this time.
February 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#CrossborderRail

Stopped long distance conference travel post covid and shorter flights don’t make sense either. Taking first long distance European continental train journey to Zurich!

☕️ aboard EMR from Nottingham to London this am.

Now on the Eurostar monopoly to Paris with a 🥐.
February 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Ooof, Victoria Reyes is dropping truth bombs with so much courage. 🙌🏽
January 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Victoria Reyes’ book Academic Outsider is so deeply resonant of my own difficulties within academia - a very specific kind of selective pseudo-liberal institution.

I can’t begin to write how I feel yet but I think it’s finally pushed me over to rethink my relationship with the academy. 😶‍🌫️
January 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A good national transit sys might start with ⬇️ map &

- Nationalise cross country into a sprinter service, connecting smaller towns with bigger cities.
- Bring the faster service models to connect big cities at high speeds.
- Keep pricing consistent with distance and speed
- get rid of Trainline
December 11, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Full of gratitude to receive The Michael Breheny Prize this year by Environment and Planning B: #Urban Analytics and #City Science. 🙏🏽

@leonardonclt.bsky.social did such an excellent job to convert this work into an accessible framework!

Award: doi.org/10.1177/2399...
Web: www.cityaccessmap.com
December 3, 2024 at 1:40 PM
1. Start by rethinking what accessibility means for people, not just those going from home to work 9-5 but everyone else living in society. We often only think about the yellow bit ⬇️ but widen horizons to a persons social and spatial spheres.
November 27, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Hello friends 👋🏽 Kicked to see this place grow into many communities again 🌍

Sharing our latest on #climate & #justice.

A Call for Spatial Justice in Urban Climate Action, ✍🏽 by the amazing Juliana Goncalves and 🖌️ by the deep thinker Namrata Narendra. (Get them here!)

zenodo.org/records/1264...
November 15, 2024 at 12:11 PM
In '19 we used TFL data to disentangle commuting traffic from other trips, and were able to show multiple tube stations in London host a variety of other travel demand and behaviour. The PT system only prioritises work but so much can be done for people.

doi-org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.ur...
September 24, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Details below..
September 18, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Launching ‘Evolving Education’ today. A manifesto to be bold, dream bigger, for peoples, places, and the planet.

If you want to reimagine higher education to transform society, we will be sharing details soon to submit abstracts!
September 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
10M! 🥳
Excited to see friends here again!
September 17, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Looking for a better way to find solutions to housing, urban inequality, public health, or mobility?

🏙️ Get ready to go deep on democratising city planning.

Save the dates for these @DemocracyNext virtual events, on Feb. 13 and 14!

📆 More details here: demnext.substack.com/p/6-ways-to-...
February 7, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Very pleased to share work on "The space-time geography of housing inequalities and policies" in journal #Cities led by Ruth Nelson.

👉🏽 Housing is ++ privatised in NL
👉🏽 Neighbourhood path dependencies play a key role in reproducing inequalities. #geosky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 13, 2023 at 6:44 AM