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The Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds is pleased to welcome: Marie Russell Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Visiting student at Centre for Transport & Society at the University of the West of England to lead a seminar entitled Where are the links between travel time use and health and wellbeing? Public health researchers are interested in transport's impacts on population health through factors such as the road toll, carbon emissions, obesity and lifestyle diseases and inequalities. But the concept of travel time use sits less comfortably with the traditional scope of public health. In this seminar Marie outlines possible linkages between travel time use and health and wellbeing, and invites feedback on these developing ideas. Starting with well-known public health frameworks, she then explores several pathways through which linkages might operate. Some of these involve seeing public transport places as public spaces, valuing personal 'down-time', and the notion of conviviality. The viewpoints proposed have implications for the ways travel time is assessed. Marie Russell is in her final year of PhD studies in the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington. Her research is about how bus and train passengers in New Zealand use and value their travel time, and its impacts on health and wellbeing. Marie used a mixed-methods social research approach and conducted structured observations, followed by one-to-one interviews and finally a pen-and-paper survey of bus and train passengers in Auckland and Wellington. In today's seminar, though, Marie is not presenting results from her data collection, but concentrates instead on broad ideas and themes. to be held Friday 13th May, 14:00 in the Institute for Transport Studies Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds More details about the department, as well as a map and directions can be found at: http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/ All welcome, refreshments provided. Please get in contact for any further details. Note that there are still spaces available for future Friday presentations, please get in touch if you would like to present. Daz Hibberd PhD Student Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds [log in to unmask] 0113 34 37 325 Institute for Transport Studies: Winners of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education (2010), for ‘sustained excellence: 40 years impact in transport research and teaching’.