The Team
Professor Glenn Lyons (contact)
Principal Investigator, University of the West of England
glenn.lyons@uwe.ac.uk
Glenn Lyons is Professor of Transport and the founder and Director of the Centre for
Transport & Society (CTS) at the University of the West of England. Glenn's interest
is in travel behaviour and its social context, taking account of the influences of the
Information Age and the implications for transport policy. He has also recently
organised, and is reporting on, a specialists workshop held at the Department
for Transport to examine travel time use and future research needs.
Professor John Urry
Principal Investigator, Lancaster University
j.urry@lancaster.ac.uk
John Urry is the founder and Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research at
Lancaster University. Educated at University of Cambridge in Economics (BA) and
Sociology (PhD), John is a founding Academician of Social Sciences and Fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts. He has published over thirty books and edited
collections including: The Tourist Gaze (1990, 2002), Global Complexity (2003),
Tourist Mobilities (2004), Automobilities (2005), Mobile Technologies of the City
(2006), Mobilities (2006/7). His research interests include tourism, travel, transport,
communications, cities, globalisation, and complexity theory.
Dr Juliet Jain
Principal Researcher, University of the West of England
juliet.jain@uwe.ac.uk
Juliet is interested in how ICTs coexist with everyday travel practices, and the
interface between social practice, ICTs and travel infrastructures in a
'networked society', and the experience of different travel spaces. Her PhD
focused on how the privatised UK rail industry considered and constructed the
future passenger in policy and practice.
Dr Laura Watts
Ethnographer in Residence, University of the West of England
LauraJ.Watts@uwe.ac.uk
Laura has over eight years of experience working as conceptual designer
and business strategist in the telecommunications sector, and has
a doctorate in the field of Science and Technology Studies, which examined the archaeologies and futures of
mobile telecoms. She has also worked with arts
and new media organisations as an independent writer. She brings to this study both an
understanding of the interaction between telecoms and transport, and a commitment to
the translation of social and cultural theory into both industry and arts practice.
David Holley
PhD Research Student, University of the West of England
david2.holley@uwe.ac.uk
David Holley is a full-time PhD student at the Centre for Transport & Society at
the University of the West of England, Bristol. His research is examining the role
of business travel time by looking at the relationships and interactions between
individuals' business travel time use and their time use at other times of the day.
Before starting the PhD David received a Masters Degree with merit in Transport
Planning at UWE. His Masters dissertation looked at the factors affecting the values
of business travel time and won the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
(UK) award for best UWE transport dissertation in 2004.
Please contact Professor Glenn Lyons in the first instance for more information concerning the project.
