Monika Büscher, professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and the director of the Centre for Mobilities Research, tells us what's mobile about researching floods and earthquakes. Imagine a flood, an earthquake, a pandemic. What do people do to stop...
"Geolocation and Video Ethnography: Capturing Mobile Internet Used by a Commuter" by Voilmy, Smoreda & Ziemlicki, 4-5PM, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). Thanks to Visiting PhD Zofia Bednarowska for the suggestion. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the...
Thomas More's Utopia will be discussed at this joint ISF/Mobilities Reading Group, 4-5PM, FASS Building, Meeting Room 1. Everyone is invited to attend and join in the discussion! The book is available in various formats here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2130
Allison Hui and James Faulconbridge have co-ordinated the 10th anniversary special issue of Mobilities journal. In this blog post, Allison summarises the exciting yet difficult task of selecting the papers that best describe a decade of mobilities research. ...
Maude Gauthier, a post-doctoral fellow at Lancaster University, writes about her current research on the migration of singles while reflecting on how mobilities studies can help her in the process. I arrived in Lancaster in September 2015 with the aim of...
As we’re slowly heading into the Spring, it’s time to recap the biggest event to hit Lancaster this past Winter: #StormDesmond. Our Satya Savitzky, who together with colleagues is currently conducting research on the events, uses his own experience of the flooding to...
The upcoming Mobilities Reading Group will take place Wednesday, 9 March from 4PM-5PM in the Mobilities Lab (Bowland North B37, Lancaster University). This week’s reading is Eric Laurier, Barry Brown,, and Moira McGregor's "Mediated Pedestrian Mobility: Walking and...
'Are alternative ways of modelling the relationship between past, present and future in order to move historical and/or text-based mobilities research rather more to the centre?'. Professor Lynne Pearce, our guest blogger this week, tries to answer this question....
First of all I would like to express my gratitude for granting me the CeMoRe Visiting Fellowship 2014. When I decided to apply for it after the 10th year anniversary conference at CeMoRe in 2013 I actually had quite forgotten how much one can benefit from a visiting...