Karen Lucas

Tomorrow I’m on BBC Radio 4 Rare Earth programme 12.05 talking about city transport.

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I went to Bristol Zoo project today for my grandson’s 3rd birthday. Last time I was there I was 14. Look at the trousers!!!

New paper just out in Walking in informal settlements with Winnie Mitullah and others in @intalinc.bsky.social urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

[Image description: Flyer with USF logo and the cover of the paper ""Precarious mobilities on the axis of changing labour and mobility dynamics: the case of female domestic workers in Istanbul during the COVID-19 pandemic" published in Social & Cultural Geography, on a Picture of a Minivan via Flickr by Vetatur Fumare]

🌟 Just published!
"Precarious mobilities on the axis of changing labour and mobility dynamics: the case of female domestic workers in Istanbul during the COVID-19 pandemic" in Social & Cultural Geography👉 ow.ly/zSoR50Vs18O
Dr Eda Beyazit & Prof Karen Lucas, former #USFInternationalFellow & mentor

USF International Fellowships 2025 - deadline 16th July 2025

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now!

This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte...

Deadline 16th July 2025

Have you seen the latest volume of @journaltpt.bsky.social covering a range of discussions from on-demand services to decarbonisation. I also wrote an editorial for the section on Human Factors in Transport Full article: Editorial: human factors in transport www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Transport governance system response during the COVID-19 pandemic: The allure of a ‘new normal’ and its implications for tackling the polycrisis This paper examines how the UK transport governance system responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and what this reveals about its capacity for transformat…

New Publication Alert 📢Transport governance system response during the COVID-19 pandemic: The allure of a ‘new normal’ and its implications for tackling the polycrisis - with @iaindocherty.bsky.social - Please read and share! @sfrost.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe, with the UK an extreme example

More car spreading news: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Beyond the 15-minute city: Methodological lessons for proximity-based planning from two English case studies The 15-minute city (15MC) popularises an older idea: that everyday destinations should be within a short, walkable or cyclable distance. Treating that…

🚨New paper 🚨 In "beyond the 15-minute city' @caglarkoksal.com @graemesherriff.bsky.social and I draw together our experiences of working on proximity based Planning in different methodological contexts. /1

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Well deserved

I’m really not happy about this reinvigoration of the nuclear way to energy production. What about the waste?

Great talk by Danny last night. Are we too crisis obsessed?

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Our research café with @mui-uom.bsky.social‬ is now available to watch back on YouTube.

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Government protects thousands of miles of bus services from being scrapped Bus Services Bill will give local leaders the power to shape the bus services their communities rely on.

"The new buses bill will finally put a halt to the decimation of socially necessary services [...] This is a good first step in the right direction, but more local action is needed"

- Prof @drkarenlucas.bsky.social, Director of @mui-uom.bsky.social reacts to the Bus Services Bill.

Thoughts on what my dear?

New paper just out in Walking in informal settlements with Winnie Mitullah and others in @intalinc.bsky.social urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Parliamentlive.tv Transport Committee

Did this yesterday. Hope it makes a difference parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

Registered vehicles on UK roads:

1991: 20 million

2023: 41.2 million

Congestion is caused — and air pollution and climate change is made worse — not by cycleways or LTNs, but by too many motor vehicles.

As the oligarchy begins to take shape, this meme seems more prescient than ever. They have convinced you that immigrants are your enemy while they pick your pockets at the same time, you’ve been duped. It’s the billionaires who are ruining this country,not migrants. Always has been. #RiseAndResist

Our transport issue of Progressive Review went live today!

We've got an amazing array of authors who've covered everything from transport decarb, to the impact of transport on wildlife, to how finance is holding back a just transition

The full issue is here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2573...

It’s getting better. My old gang are finding me here in this new space & I am grateful for that. But I had 3k flowered on X and I need then to be here to be effective. So sign up and follow and leave the old shit behind.!

Methods Talk Podcast · Methods@Manchester · Methods Talk is the methods@manchester podcast. Methods@manchester is a University of Manchester initiative focused on supporting interdisciplinary and innovative metho...

We now have FOUR episodes of #MethodsTalk available. open.spotify.com/show/60TyhNN...

A very accessible and informative summary of the transport decarbonisation challenge from @jilliananable.bsky.social - rocking it as usual. Coffee time essential read

Air pollution: Wood burners more polluting than traffic - Birmingham research Birmingham researchers say they have found wood burning at home is more polluting than traffic.

This study adds to the growing body of evidence about the impact of solid fuel burning on air quality. Now how to change people's minds because I still see people proudly posting pictures of their cosy fire? As I said yesterday I am that disappointed guy...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“…traffic noise is steadily developing into a major nuisance, seriously prejudicial to the general enjoyment of towns, destructive of the amenities of dwellings on a wide scale ”
#TrafficInTowns
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It’s disgusting!!!

Putting Communities and People at the Heart of Transport Decision-Making YouTube video by Charles Musselwhite

My presentation at the excellent, TRANSPORT Smart Class, Wales & West of England, Cardiff, last week.
This is my keynote presentation highlighting that we need to see transport much more from a person-based perspective, bring in the social and bring in community.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-J6...

📢Call for Papers 📢
AtGender Conf, 9-12 July, Barcelona

Interested in how urban commoning and grassroots political infrastructures reimagine justice and care, reshaping the geographies of urban life?

Do get in touch if you are interested!
📝Send your abstract by 18 Dec
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