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with Monika Buscher, Cron Cronshaw, the DecarboN8 Network and the IsITEthical/SoRA collective Societal readiness assessment is a methodology and prototype digital tool I developed with Monika Buscher as co-leads of the societal readiness work package and Cron Cronshaw as Research Associate, within the EPSRC-funded DecarboN8 network. DecarboN8 was a collaboration of eight universities in the…
By Nicola Spurling and project partners Photo by Cory Woodward on Unsplash In Spring 2020 I led a bid for a public engagement research project titled ‘Repainting the City’, in collaboration with Lancaster City and Lancashire County council, Street Spirit Design and Sustrans. In this collaborative bid between Sociology, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Transport…
By Nicola Spurling and Elizabeth Shove Between 2014-2016 I explored how professional practices shaped everyday consumption of mobility and energy through inscribing the world with envisioned ways of living and doing. I worked with the New Towns Archive (in Hertford) and Stevenage Museum and used archive research and oral history interviews to look at the…
By Nicola Spurling and Elizabeth Shove ‘If The Walls Could Talk’ was a public engagement initiative which I ran as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in 2014. I produced two picture books conveying ideas and findings from research in the New Towns Archive (in Hertford) and the Stevenage Museum in which I…
By Nicola Spurling and John Griffin (Materials Chemistry) In 2020 I worked with John Griffin (materials chemistry) on a successful application for a PhD scholarship to fund dual PhDs (one located in Materials Chemistry and one in Sociology) via the Leverhulme Material Social Futures Doctoral Training Centre. The details of the Sociology project idea can…
By Nicola Spurling Inspired by Ingold’s ‘Comparative Anthropology of the Line’ (2016), and based on a very small piece of fieldwork, in 2019 I wrote some pieces of thought titled ‘Lancaster Lines’ for a symposium at Lancaster. I subsequently developed this writing into a book chapter ‘Lines: Material Cultures of Future Mobility‘ for The Routledge…
By Nicola Spurling and Lenneke Kuijer (Industrial Design, TU Eindhoven) In 2016 I worked with Lenneke Kuijer, an Industrial Design Engineer from Eindhoven University of Technology. Through a theme of ‘Everyday Futures’ we secured funding from the Institute for Social Futures, the Commission on Travel Demand and Design United, to explore how social theory and methods…
By Nicola Spurling and Louise Mullagh (Imagination Lancaster) In 2017 I was funded by the Mobile Utopia Experiment to stage a 2-day intervention with Louise Mullagh (Imagination Lancaster) which I titled ‘Parking in Utopia’. I occupied two parking spaces on Lancaster campus. In one I installed an exhibition of historic maps gathered through archival work…
By Nicola Spurling and Susann Wagenknecht (Sociology, Dresden TU) seeing the invisible: human foils in the urban environment In 2019 Susann Wagenknecht (Dresden Technical University) and I collaborated on the design and facilitation of a walking workshop at Thinking on the Move: the possibilities and risks of walking sociologically, Goldsmiths University, London. “Humans are animals,…
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