Yi Fan Liu
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Yi Fan Liu
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PhD @tsuoxford.bsky.social | studying car-sharing services & (auto)mobilities 🚙 | occasional birdwatcher 🐥 | she/her
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Thank you for kindly giving me the space to share a little bit of my research online! 😊

TLDR: gender matters as private automobility is deeply affective through gendered logics; a car-sharing service’s success also depends on how ‘good’ the experience feels against driving a privately owned car.
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...
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Ever wondered what it's like to study a PhD/ DPhil at the TSU in Oxford? Some of our current students and @timschwanen.bsky.social discuss. Watch now: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/graduate-res...

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
PhD/ DPhil Research at the Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University
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September 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thank you to TGRG and Edward Elgar for the generous support at the #RGSIBG2025, and to the amazing session organisers for putting together three very insightful TGRG sessions. My deepest gratitude goes to @timschwanen.bsky.social and @debbiehopkins.bsky.social, whose wonderful guidance led me here 😊
September 3, 2025 at 3:50 AM
A very fruitful and meaningful piece with @sieunlee.bsky.social and Maryam Altaf! :) We also reflect on the importance of researcher self-care and offer some practical recommendations. 🫂
A paper I co-authored with @yifan-liu.bsky.social and Maryam Altaf is published in Area!

We reflect on our experiences of ride-along methods to consider the situational risks that arise for researchers. It was a pleasure to work on this with my dear friends as a first publication of mine :)
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper explores the affective realities of car ride-alongs by examining the ways in which researchers might be affected in the process of doing such methods. While there is an ethic of care for r...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM