Tim Schwanen

Between or Beyond Bicycles and Cars? Navigating E-Cargo Bike Citizenship in the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility E-cargo bikes have gained academic and policy interest for their potential to replace car trips in cities. Like bicycles, they require pedaling, produ…

Clara Glachant of the University of Eindhoven said “Our findings suggest that e-cargo bikes may help cultivate a cycling culture both at the household level and the community level. They may reshape ideas of who belongs on the road, who is entitled to space.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The research project, carried out jointly with the universities of Eindhoven, Brighton and Leeds, concluded e-cargo bikes “foster new social norms and cultural identities around family, community and sustainable travel”, with this “everyday practicality normalising cycling as a utility activity”.

⭐ Fantastic to see recent work w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social featured as a Research Highlight in the latest issue of Nature Climate Change. In this work, we examine how people across the Pacific Northwest of North America adapt their various everyday activities to cope with the threat of heatwaves.

YouTube video by Transport Studies Unit PhD/ DPhil Research at the Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University

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...

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Book talk - 'Roadkill : Unveiling The True Cost Of Our Toxic… In this Oxford Martin School event, clean tech entrepreneur Arthur Kay and global prosperity theorist Professor Dame Henrietta L. To watch live online on…

Join @henriettalmoore.bsky.social and Arthur Kay for a discussion on how our dependence on cars has shaped our cities and infrastructure, but also our economies, health, and freedoms. @timschwanen.bsky.social will join the authors in conversation.

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Come work with our wonderful colleague Anwesha Gosh in the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru in our British Academy-funded project Just Transitions on Indian Streets.

We are looking for two postdocs and two research associates.

Work With Us - National Law School of India University

🚨 We’re hiring for the Just Transitions on Indian Streets project!

🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug)
🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug)

📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh.

Apply & share!

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🚨 New project!

Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action.

Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India.

Postdoc & RA openings soon!

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📕 New paper out w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social in Global Environmental Change: "Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analyzing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers"📕

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🚨 Excited to share the pre-print for the 3rd paper from my DPhil research! 🚨

"The joint impact of summer heatwave intensity and heat-vulnerability factors on adaptive responses: A case study using England's National Travel Survey"

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New paper out -- Lea gives an excellent summary of the contents and why we are ambiguous about community transport in rural Oxfordshire despite the wonderful work of its volunteers and the essential services it provides to those without a car and access to public buses @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Sadiq Khan / TfL gave the go ahead for a road tunnel without building an equivalent fixed cycle bridge/tunnel in east london … so critical mass took things into their own hands and turned the Silvertown tunnel into a cycle route.

PLEASEM: A Tool to Measure PLace-based Estimated Advantages of Shared Electric Mobility | Published in Findings By Hannah Budnitz, Mads Hoefer. The benefits of electric car clubs, such as carbon emissions savings, vary by geography and could be greater outside cities where such services are usually located.

PLEASEM: A Tool to Measure PLace-based Estimated Advantages of Shared Electric Mobility https://findingspress.org/article/137021-pleasem-a-tool-to-measure-place-based-estimated-advantages-of-shared-electric-mobility

The Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (VU) announced the decision to close its earth sciences department & cut 42 jobs as part of a wider measure to save €60M. The BSc degree in earth sciences will be discontinued. We want to express our solidarity with our colleagues & the students at the VU, as well as their families, who face unprecedented uncertainties about their future. Our thoughts are with them. These cuts are not only devastating for the affected staff & students. They will have major consequences for geoscience research & teaching in the Netherlands & beyond. Geoscience in the Netherlands is highly respected around the world by industry & academia alike. This respect is firmly grounded in the collaborative, complementary & internationalised approach to research & teaching across the Netherlands. Losing a crucial part of the Dutch geoscience knowledge base at the VU will weaken the international standing of the Netherlands in the broader field of earth & geosciences, not only putting innovation at risk in a time where we can ill-afford this, but also reducing the number of urgently needed graduates. Geosciences underpin many of the solutions that we need to tackle some of the most severe challenges humanity faces: combating climate change, access to clean water, energy security & energy transition, sustainable sourcing of critical raw materials, understanding the impact of environmental change, or mitigating the risks of natural hazards. While we can debate how we can better communicate the importance of geosciences to increase student numbers, closing the earth science department at the VU sends the wrong message: that geosciences are expendable, at a time when they are needed more than ever. Only through cooperation & solidarity, not only in the field of geosciences & not only in the Netherlands, universities will be able to push back against government cuts & anti-science politics that threaten to inflict potentially devastating damages to our society.

A statement of solidarity with our colleagues and their students from the Department of Earth Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam #geoscience #academia #science #earthscience #climatechange #energytransition ⚒️🧪🧬💡🔌

Fantastic start to @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting with first session of the transportation justice conference-within-a-conference. Twelve sessions in all, with @timschwanen.bsky.social, Matt Palm, David Prytherch, Shu Jung Yang, and @alexkarner.bsky.social providing excellent introductions.

Fantastic blog on the citizens' assembly about transport in Oxfordshire. It was a privilege and a joy to make a very small contribution to this initiative and its results @tsuoxford.bsky.social

Oxfordshire citizens' assembly on the thorny issues of traffic and transport concluded on Sunday.

Here's my take on it and the the power of deliberative mini-publics to support robust public policy, social cohesion and better democracy
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New @tsuoxford.bsky.social paper in Case Studies on Transport Policy on the socio-spatially uneven use of shared e-scooters in Bristol, the UK city with the largest shared e-scooter trial, led by @hbudnitz.bsky.social with @xiaoli-transport.bsky.social & Helen Morrissey: doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...

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Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity Dr Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University kicks off the TSU Seminar Series for 2025

We, at @tsuoxford.bsky.social, are excited to host Dr Daniel Agbiboa from @harvard.edu for our first seminar of the Public Seminar Series 2025 on 23rd January. The session will be chaired by @valenmontoya.bsky.social. Please join in!

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🌆 ☀️ New pre-print online! “Everyday adaptation to summer heatwaves: A global perspective” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and @timschwanen.bsky.social.

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The special issue of Environment & Planning F on 'Geographies of Value and Valuation' is out! It has been a joy and privilege to work on this, and I want to thank the contributors for their wonderful manuscripts and patience. 7/9 pieces OA. More information on: journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPF/curr...

@njklein.bsky.social, Orly Linovski, Mike Smart & I r researching qualitative research in transportation & r starting a listserv for qual researchers in transport. Hope it can be a forum for community building sharing insights/challenges, exchanging resources, collaboration & more. DM for sign up .

We are looking for new colleagues @geogdurham.bsky.social & any questions just ask. Just think, next year you too could be at the Xmas party bake-off 🙌

Read what we've been up to over the last few months in our latest newsletter for Michaelmas Term. mailchi.mp/04e216a2073e...

‘Cities rethought’: a book launch and lunchtime discussion In a short discussion, Professor Fran Tonkiss , LSE and Professor Gillian Rose , School of Geography & the Environment, will comment on the book’s place…

Sign up for a lunchtime discussion and book launch on "Cities rethought" chaired by @timschwanen.bsky.social www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/citie...