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n.spurling@lancaster.ac.uk
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…
collaborations between Nicola Spurling, Elizabeth Shove, Andy McMeekin, Dale Southerton, Daniel Welch Between 2009-2013 I worked on questions of how to change high carbon consumption – often framed by policy makers as the need to change behaviour. Through a series of Exhibitions, Policy Reports, Working Parties and Blogposts I brought cutting edge insights from live research…
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 (Commissioner, National Commission on Travel Demand) In 2018-2019 I continued to serve as a consulting sociologist in my role as commissioner on the National Commission on Travel Demand’s second inquiry. I had also served in this role on the first inquiry. The Second Report and a Summary is publicly available. Funded as…
By Nicola Spurling (Commissioner, National Commission on Travel Demand) In 2017-2018 I served as a consulting sociologist in my role as Commissioner on the first inquiry of the National Commission on Travel Demand. (nb. I also served in this role on the second inquiry 2018-2019). The First Report, alongside the Permanent Secretary of the Department…
By Nicola Spurling and project partners In Summer 2020 I was shortlisted and interviewed for a major £1 million grant application as part of the UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship Scheme. The exciting proposed project, ‘Making Multi-Modal Futures’, reframed provider-side definitions and designs of ‘integrated transport’, and instead considered how car-free multimodal travel within trips, and…
By Rosie Robinson (Ed) (Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin) and Nicola Spurling (Contributor) In 2013 I took part in Rosie Robinson’s book project which provided a space for early career researchers to write about the sustainability questions which were at the forefront of their minds at the time. This innovative book involved researchers from across…
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 Charlotte Louise Jensen (Aalborg University) In May 2016 Charlotte Louise Jensen hosted me as a visiting scholar at Aalborg University (Copenhagen Campus), Denmark (nb. since then Charlotte has moved to the Danish Green Think Tank ‘Concito’ as a Behaviour Analyst). As part of the visit we discussed our experiences and current…
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