CeMoRe Annual Research Day 2012
Date: 30 May 2012 Time: 09.30 - 5.30pm
Venue: Bowland North Seminar Room 2
Once again the Centre for Mobilities Research will hold its annual research day. This is a great opportunity for people working on mobilities-related research to present their findings and do some all-important networking across departments, facultiesas well as with other universities and businesses.
Further details and call for papers will appear in due course.
PROGRAMME
CeMoRe Research Day: Wednesday 30th May 2012, Bowland North Seminar Room 2
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9.15-9.30: Registration Bowland N SR 2
9.30 - 11.00: Introduction and welcome: Colin Pooley (LEC)
Session 1: Movements and disruptions
Chair: John Urry
- Thomas Birtchnell (Sociology) - Fabricating futures and the movement of object
- Monika Buscher, Lisa Wood, (Sociology) and Lucas Introna (Management School) -Agile response: disentangling crisis mobilities from military metaphors
- Mags Adams and James Faulconbridge (LEC) - Studying disruptions to mobility: the challenges of participant-led mobile methods
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11-11.20: Coffee
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11.20-1.10: Session 2: New mobilities
Chair: Colin Pooley
- Marcel Endres (CeMoRe) - Reconsidering concepts of fixity and flow: theoretical approaches to highly mobile lifestyles
- Sung-Yueh (Shaun) Perng, Lisa Wood, Monika Büscher (Sociology), Sukanya Nallaiah - Improvising community resilience: coordinating London riots' cleanup by microblogging
- Kai Syng Tan (UCL) - Kaidie's 1000-day trans-dimensional run 12.12.2009-09.09.2012: a run down.
- Monika Büscher (Cemore, mobslab), Seo Young Kim (LICA ImaginationLancaster), Kristina Lindstrom (Malmoe University, Sweden), Sung-Yueh Perng (Cemore, mobslab), Ege Sezen, (Highwire, Lancaster), Jen Southern (Computing), Asa Stahl (Malmoe University, Sweden) - Mobile publics #futureeverything
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1.10-2.00: Lunch
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2.00-4.00: Session 3: New approaches to old mobilities
Chair: Colin Pooley
- Pei-Chun (Beryl) Chen (LUMS/National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) - Exploring taste heterogeneity in commuting cyclists' bicycle route behavior: evidence from Taiwan
- David Tyfield (Sociology) - Greening China's cars: could the last be first?
- Gil Viry (Sociology) - Job-related residential and commuting trajectories in Germany: a sequence analysis to study spatial mobility experiences over time
- Giulio Mattioli (CeMoRe/University of Milan-Bicocca) - Car dependence, sustainability and social exclusion: households without a car in Germany and the UK
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4.00: Tea
Research Day closes
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Who can attend: Anyone
Further information
Associated staff: Thomas Birtchnell, Monika Büscher, Pennie Drinkall (Sociology), James Faulconbridge (Organisation, Work and Technology), Lucas Introna (Organisation, Work and Technology), Colin Pooley, David Tyfield (Sociology), John Urry, Gil Viry (Sociology)
Organising departments and research centres: Applied Social Science, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Computing and Communications, Mobilities.Lab, Organisation, Work and Technology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
Keywords: Automobilities, Design, Design and innovation, Design thinking, Disasters, Migrants, Migration, Migration and diaspora, Military law and discipline, Mobilities, Sustainable development
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