To: UTSG list members
This is just a reminder e-mail for two deadlines coming up:
1. The RGS-IBG Call for Papers 'Safe and secure while on the move'. The deadline is the end of next week.
2. Research position: Research Associate in Transport Studies, a fixed-term post for 14 months at Loughborough University. The deadline is the 20th December.
Both are outlined below, beneath my signature.
Feel free to forward to anyone you think may be interested.
Apologies for cross-posting
Kind regards
Tim
Dr Tim Ryley, Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies
School of Civil & Building Engineering, Loughborough University
1) Call for papers
Below is a Call for Papers for proposed ‘Safe and secure while on the move’ sessions, convened by Dr Lucy Budd and myself at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012, Edinburgh, 3-5 July 2012 (see: http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Annual+international+conference.htm for further information).
We look forward to hearing from those interested in submitting abstracts.
Safe and secure while on the move: mobilising the geographies of transportation safety and security
Sponsored by the TGRG (Transport Geography Research Group)
Conveners: Dr Tim Ryley and Dr Lucy Budd, Loughborough University
The individual and collective safety and security of differentially mobile subjects and vehicles are integral concepts within transport geography. Perceived and actual safety and security levels affect individuals, mobile populations, and society as a whole as they influence human spatial behaviour and mode choice. Unsurprisingly, both individual and societal concerns about transport safety and security impact on real-world transport situations in a variety of ways at different spatial scales around the world. The choice of whether young children walk or cycle to school, for example, is heavily influenced by parents’ and carers’ evaluations of individual safety and security risks, while at a global scale concerns about international terrorism have led to the introduction of new screening and security protocols at airports which have transformed the practices and experiences of travelling by air. Set in the context of contemporary concerns about mobility, safety, and security, this session will explore the myriad geographies and geographical implications of transport safety and security in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Titles and abstracts (of no more than 250 words) should be emailed to Tim Ryley ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Lucy Budd ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Friday 16th December 2011.
2) Research position: Research Associate in Transport Studies, a fixed-term post for 14 months at Loughborough University.
See below and note that the closing date for applications is Tuesday 20th December 2011.
Research Associate in Transport Studies
Fixed-term for 14 months
School of Civil & Building Engineering, Loughborough University
Required to work in the Transport Studies Group within the School of Civil and Building
Engineering, primarily on a Research Council funded project to determine the potential
contribution in DRT (Demand Responsive Transport) to meet transport and wider public policy
objectives in England and Wales; and also to assist on a second project LCV GRIDs.
Further particulars: http://jobs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php?page=Details&id=1700
If you require further information please contact Dr Tim Ryley at: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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