Research: Transformations
Research Projects
Current Projects
- Alchemists of the revolution? The politics of educated unemployed youth
Dr Craig Jeffrey in collaboration with several partners. Financial support from the ESRC; 2012-2015.
- The end of investment bank capitalism? Mapping the global securities industry.
Dr Dariusz Wójcik. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2012-2015.
- The geopolitics of ethnic relations in Russia
Dr Andrew Foxall. ESRC Early Career Fellowship from the ESRC; 2012-2013.
- Diaspora youth: economic disadvantage, the construction of masculinity and inter-group relations
Professor Linda McDowell in collaboration with the Oxford International Migration Institute as part of the Oxford Diasporas Programme. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2011-2015.
- Transport and accessibility in low income communities in the Recife metropolitan region
Dr Karen Lucas in collaboration with the University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Financial support from Brazilian National Science Research Council; 2011-2014.
- TranSENDaNC: Transport and social exclusion: new directions and national comparisons
Dr Karen Lucas and Dr Tim Schwanen in collaboration with the University of Ghent, Belgium and the Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Financial support from EU Marie Curie International Researcher Exchange Scheme (IRSES); 2011-2014.
- Fixing futures? Towards a comparative analysis of educated unemployed youth politics
Dr Craig Jeffrey. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2011-2013.
- Modelling the relationships between transport poverty and social disadvantage
Dr Karen Lucas. Financial support from ESRC; 2011-2013.
- New and emerging technologies - Smart Water Systems Phase 2
Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from DfID; 2011-2013.
- Merseytravel neighbourhood travel teams evaluation study
Dr Karen Lucas. Financial support from the Merseytravel Passenger Transport Authority; 2011-2012.
- Low-carbon mobility futures
Prof. David Banister, Dr Moshe Givoni and James Macmillen. Financial support from Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford; 2011.
- Developments after a disaster: the tsunami, poverty, conflict and reconstruction in Sri Lanka
Dr Kamal Kapadia. Financial support from the ESRC; 2010-2012.
- Making environmental health subjects in contemporary rural China: contested illnesses, pollution and the 'good life'
Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright. Financial support from the British Academy; 2010-2012.
- Penality and the social construction of gender in post-Soviet Russia: the impact on prisioners' relatives of their encounters with penal Russia
Professor Judith Pallot and Dr Elena Katz. Financial support from the AHRC; 2010-2012.
- Smart water systems
Dr Rob Hope and Michael Rouse, in collaboration with Rural Focus Ltd. (Kenya) and ZamDex (Zambia). Financial support from DfID; 2010-2012.
- Climate change, energy and transport
Prof. David Banister and Dr Tim Schwanen in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen. Financial support from the UK Transport Research Centre; 2010-2011
- Investing social security assets in equities: an assessment of the procedures to prevent political interference
Professor Gordon L. Clark. Financial support from the University of Toronto; 2010-2011.
- Knowledges, resources and legal regimes: the new geopolitics of the polar regions
Dr Richard Powell in collaboration with Royal Holloway, University of London. Financial support from the ESRC; 2010-2011.
- Social impacts and social equity issues in transport
Dr Karen Lucas in collaboration with London School of Economics, University of Aberdeen, Newcastle University, and University of Warwick. Financial support from the ESRC; 2010-2011.
- The use of state-of-the-art models by policy makers to address global energy and environment challenges: the case of transport policy
Dr Moshe Givoni and Eda Beyazit in conjunction with Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Financial support from the British Council; BIRAX: The Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership; 2010-2011.
- Visioning and backcasting for transport futures in Chinese cities
Dr Jimin Zhao, Prof. David Banister and Dr Robin Hickman in collaboration with the Shandong University of Finance, Shandong Academy of Sciences, and Jinan Municipal Government, China. Financial support from the Centre for Studies in Property Valuation and Management Trust and James Martin 21st Century School; 2010-2011.
- Blue-sky thinking for Oxfordshire County Council's Local Transport Plan III
Dr Karen Lucas, Prof. David Banister, Dr Robin Hickman and Lara Scott. Financial support from Oxfordshire County Council; 2009-2011.
- OPTIC: Optimal policies for transport in combination
Prof. David Banister, Dr Moshe Givoni and James Macmillen in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from European Commission; 2009-2011.
- Understanding the social impacts of UK climate policies
Dr Christian Brand and Dr Karen Lucas in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Energy and University of Bristol. Financial support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation; 2009-2011.
- SCaRSe: Spatial competition between railway stations
Dr Moshe Givoni in collaboration with the Department of Spatial Economics and Free University Amsterdam (unofficial partner). Financial support from the European Commission; 2008-2011.
- Visions of the role of walking and cycling in 2030
Prof. David Banister, Dr Moshe Givoni and James Macmillen in collaboration with University of Leeds, University of East Anglia, University of Salford and University of Manchester. Financial support from the ESPRC; 2008-2011.
- The geopolitics and governance of sovereign wealth funds
Professor Gordon L. Clark and Dr Ashby Monk. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2008-2010.
- Expert assistance in the area of transport, emissions, environment and scenario building
Prof. David Banister, Dr Christian Brand and Dr Moshe Givoni in collaboration with European Environment Agency, Transport Research Laboratory and IFOK, Berlin. Financial support from the European Environment Agency and the Transport Research Laboratory; 2006-2011
Recent Projects
- Global financial turmoil and the geography of stock markets: information and prices in Hong Kong, London and New York
Dr Dariusz Wójcik. Financial support from the British Academy; 2009-2010.
- INTRA-SIM: Oxfordshire and Swindon
Dr Robin Hickman and Prof. David Banister in collaboration with Halcrow. Financial support from Oxfordshire County Council, Swindon Borough Council and the UK Department for Transport; 2009-2010.
- Knowledge and evidence review of the social distributional impacts of climate change policies for transport
Dr Karen Lucas in collaboration with AEA Technology and Transport and Travel Research Limited. Financial support from the UK Department for Transport; 2009-2010.
- CABE: Sustainable cities, transport chapter
Dr Robin Hickman and Prof. David Banister in collaboration with Halcrow. Financial support from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; 2009.
- OxTran: Oxford transport network
Dr Moshe Givoni, Lara Scott, Dr Karen Lucas and Prof. David Banister. Financial support from John Fell Fund; 2008-2010.
- Multiple use water systems for poverty reduction
Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from the World Bank Water and Sanitation Programme; 2008-2009.
- Planning for sustainable travel
Dr Robin Hickman and Prof. David Banister in collaboration with Halcrow and Oxford Brookes. Financial support from Commission for Integrated Transport; 2008-2009.
- Scientific careers in a clustered 'knowledge economy': Oxford case study
Dr Sarah Dyer. Financial support from John Fell OUP Research Fund; 2008-2009.
- Sustainable rural water supply in Mozambique
Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; 2008-2009.
- Subverting stereotypes: Asian women's political activism in the UK - a comparison of Grunwick and Gate Gourmet
Professor Linda McDowell in collaboration with University of Leeds. Financial support from the AHRC; 2007-2009.
- Visioning and backcasting for transport in London
Dr Robin Hickman and Prof. David Banister in collaboration with Halcrow and Space Syntax. Financial support from UrbanBuzz and HEFCE; 2007-2009.
- Women in the Russian penal system: the role of distance in the theory and practice of imprisonment in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia
Professor Judith Pallot in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde and University of Birmingham. Financial support from the ESRC; 2006-2010.
- Men's work, women's work, body work: restructuring class and gender relations
Professor Linda McDowell. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2006-2008.
- Water ecosystems and poverty reduction under climate change
Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from DfID; 2006-2007.
- GeNet: Gender inequality in production and reproduction priority
Professor Linda McDowell, Dr Sarah Dyer and Dr Adina Batnitzky in collaboration with Universities of Cambridge, Essex, LSE and City. Financial support from the ESRC; 2005-2010.
- Social geography of secondary school catchment areas in Cape Town
Dr Tony Lemon in collaboration with the University of Cape Town. Financial support from the Oppenheimer Fund; 2005-2009.
- African Environment Programme seminar series
Dr Patricia Daley and Dr Henny Osbahr. Financial support from ESRC/NERC; 2005-2007.
- Mopane woodlands and mopane worms
Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from DfID; 2005-2006.
- US public sector pension funds and urban revitalization
Professor Gordon L. Clark, Dr Tessa Hebb, Dr Terry Babcock-Lumish and Lisa Hagerman. Financial support from the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations; 2004-2007.
- Low base flows and livelihoods
Dr Rob Hope. Financial support from DfID; 2004-2006.
- Geography of capital markets
Dr Dariusz Wójcik. Financial support from Jesus College, Oxford; 2004-2006.
- The Internet gift economy: a study of socio-technological change in the US film industry
Dr Andrew Currah. Financial support from the ESRC; 2003-2006.
- Indian minority identity and post-apartheid transformation in South Africa
Dr Tony Lemon. Financial support from the Oppenheimer Fund; 2002-2006.
- Geography of corporate governance
Professor Gordon L. Clark, Dr Tessa Hebb and Dr Dariusz Wójcik in collaboration with Maastricht University. Financial support from the European Science Foundation; 2002-2006.
