CeMoRe Annual Research Day 2012

PROGRAMME

CeMoRe Research Day: Wednesday 30th May 2012, Bowland North Seminar Room 2

9.15-9.30: Registration Bowland North 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 objects

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

11-11.30: Coffee

11.30-1.00:

Session 2: New mobilities - Chair: TBA

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.

1.00-2.00: Lunch

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

4.00: Tea

Research Day closes