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Tim Schwanen

@timschwanen.bsky.social
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Professor of Transport Geography | Director of @tsuoxford.bsky.social | University of Oxford | Transport, mobilities, cities, climate, inequality | he/him | 333 CO2 ppm

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Tim Schwanen @timschwanen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Important report on the most unequal form of transport that mostly flies below the policy radar, and not just in the USA. But is it really invisible or does the policy world rather prefer to look away?
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 19/05/2026
1,500 of the 2,300 deaths linked to Europe’s 2025 heatwave were attributed to climate change. Heatwaves are changing daily life, but not everyone can stay safe equally. Read more from @oxfordgeography.bsky.social's Shiv Yucel ⬇️ bit.ly/4ueyyAr
The image shows a city street at dusk with illuminated temperature displays reading +37°C and +31°C at a bus stop or roadside sign. A scooter rider passes in the blurred background. Overlaid text reads: “Heatwaves are now everyday disasters - governments need to do more to protect people” followed by “ox.ac.uk/news | University of Oxford”.
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Shiv Yücel @sgyucel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🌆 ☀️ Very excited to share our latest publication: “Adapting everyday activities to summer heatwaves: a multi-country analysis of mobile phone location data” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and @timschwanen.bsky.social Environmental Research: Climate link: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 🧵1/4
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Tim Schwanen @timschwanen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📢 new paper out with @debbiehopkins.bsky.social and @ianloader.bsky.social, on different notions of freedom linked to driving and flying. Available open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 16/01/2026
✍️ @timschwanen.bsky.social, Hopkins & Loader analyse how multiple conceptualisations of #freedom from across the humanities and social sciences are, and can be, implicated in public contestations over urban #transport. 📖 buff.ly/yg8uQ8k
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Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Comparative fieldwork in Bengaluru, Delhi and Kolkata for the JusTIS project is used to foreground workers’ lived experiences. @gauravmittal.bsky.social @timschwanen.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/listeni...
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Listening to the Streets: Reflections from JusTIS Introductory Workshops in Bengaluru, Delhi, and Kolkata
Between September and November 2025, the JusTIS project team held three introductory workshops in Bengaluru, Delhi and Kolkata, bringing together over 130 stakeholders from workers unions, civil socie...
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Tim Schwanen @timschwanen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Helsinki breaking up its #bikesharing system for the winter. #seasonality of cycling.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Clara Glachant of the University of Eindhoven said “Our findings suggest that e-cargo bikes may help cultivate a cycling culture both at the household level and the community level. They may reshape ideas of who belongs on the road, who is entitled to space.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Between or Beyond Bicycles and Cars? Navigating E-Cargo Bike Citizenship in the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility
E-cargo bikes have gained academic and policy interest for their potential to replace car trips in cities. Like bicycles, they require pedaling, produ…
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The research project, carried out jointly with the universities of Eindhoven, Brighton and Leeds, concluded e-cargo bikes “foster new social norms and cultural identities around family, community and sustainable travel”, with this “everyday practicality normalising cycling as a utility activity”.
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Shiv Yücel @sgyucel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
⭐ Fantastic to see recent work w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social featured as a Research Highlight in the latest issue of Nature Climate Change. In this work, we examine how people across the Pacific Northwest of North America adapt their various everyday activities to cope with the threat of heatwaves.
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Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Join @henriettalmoore.bsky.social and Arthur Kay for a discussion on how our dependence on cars has shaped our cities and infrastructure, but also our economies, health, and freedoms. @timschwanen.bsky.social will join the authors in conversation. www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/roadk...
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Book talk - 'Roadkill : Unveiling The True Cost Of Our Toxic…
In this Oxford Martin School event, clean tech entrepreneur Arthur Kay and global prosperity theorist Professor Dame Henrietta L. To watch live online on…
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Tim Schwanen @timschwanen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Come work with our wonderful colleague Anwesha Gosh in the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru in our British Academy-funded project Just Transitions on Indian Streets. We are looking for two postdocs and two research associates.
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Gaurav Mittal @gauravmittal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨 We’re hiring for the Just Transitions on Indian Streets project! 🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug) 🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug) 📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh. Apply & share! www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
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Work With Us - National Law School of India University
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Gaurav Mittal @gauravmittal.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🚨 New project! Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) explores how Indian cities can centre street-based workers in climate action. Led by @timschwanen.bsky.social of @tsuoxford.bsky.social with three collaborators in India. Postdoc & RA openings soon! www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/streets...
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From the Streets Up: New Project Tackles Urban Inequality in India’s Climate Action
India is facing the twin challenges of climate change and ongoing growth of its urban population. The pressures both challenges create play out first and foremost on city streets. They are places wher...
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Shiv Yücel @sgyucel.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
📕 New paper out w/ @timschwanen.bsky.social in Global Environmental Change: "Heatwave adaptation conditioned by everyday life: Analyzing interacting changes to daily activities during Pacific Northwest summers"📕 🧵1/7
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Shiv Yücel @sgyucel.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🚨 Excited to share the pre-print for the 3rd paper from my DPhil research! 🚨 "The joint impact of summer heatwave intensity and heat-vulnerability factors on adaptive responses: A case study using England's National Travel Survey" 🧵thread 1/8
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Tim Schwanen @timschwanen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New paper out -- Lea gives an excellent summary of the contents and why we are ambiguous about community transport in rural Oxfordshire despite the wonderful work of its volunteers and the essential services it provides to those without a car and access to public buses @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 26/04/2025
Sadiq Khan / TfL gave the go ahead for a road tunnel without building an equivalent fixed cycle bridge/tunnel in east london … so critical mass took things into their own hands and turned the Silvertown tunnel into a cycle route.
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Findings Press @findingspress.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025
PLEASEM: A Tool to Measure PLace-based Estimated Advantages of Shared Electric Mobility findingspress.org/article/137021-pl…
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PLEASEM: A Tool to Measure PLace-based Estimated Advantages of Shared Electric Mobility | Published in Findings
By Hannah Budnitz, Mads Hoefer. The benefits of electric car clubs, such as carbon emissions savings, vary by geography and could be greater outside cities where such services are usually located.
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Prof Sebastian Geiger @geoenergyprof.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A statement of solidarity with our colleagues and their students from the Department of Earth Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam #geoscience #academia #science #earthscience #climatechange #energytransition ⚒️🧪🧬💡🔌
The Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (VU) announced the decision to close its earth sciences department & cut 42 jobs as part of a wider measure to save €60M. The BSc degree in earth sciences will be discontinued.
We want to express our solidarity with our colleagues & the students at the VU, as well as their families, who face unprecedented uncertainties about their future. Our thoughts are with them.
These cuts are not only devastating for the affected staff & students. They will have major consequences for geoscience research & teaching in the Netherlands & beyond. Geoscience in the Netherlands is highly respected around the world by industry & academia alike. This respect is firmly grounded in the collaborative, complementary & internationalised approach to research & teaching across the Netherlands.
Losing a crucial part of the Dutch geoscience knowledge base at the VU will weaken the international standing of the Netherlands in the broader field of earth & geosciences, not only putting innovation at risk in a time where we can ill-afford this, but also reducing the number of urgently needed graduates. 
Geosciences underpin many of the solutions that we need to tackle some of the most severe challenges humanity faces: combating climate change, access to clean water, energy security & energy transition, sustainable sourcing of critical raw materials, understanding the impact of environmental change, or mitigating the risks of natural hazards. 
While we can debate how we can better communicate the importance of geosciences to increase student numbers, closing the earth science department at the VU sends the wrong message: that geosciences are expendable, at a time when they are needed more than ever. 
Only through cooperation & solidarity, not only in the field of geosciences & not only in the Netherlands, universities will be able to push back against government cuts & anti-science politics that threaten to inflict potentially devastating damages to our society.
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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Fantastic start to @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting with first session of the transportation justice conference-within-a-conference. Twelve sessions in all, with @timschwanen.bsky.social, Matt Palm, David Prytherch, Shu Jung Yang, and @alexkarner.bsky.social providing excellent introductions.
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Tim Schwanen @timschwanen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Fantastic blog on the citizens' assembly about transport in Oxfordshire. It was a privilege and a joy to make a very small contribution to this initiative and its results @tsuoxford.bsky.social
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alchisholm.bsky.social @alchisholm.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Oxfordshire citizens' assembly on the thorny issues of traffic and transport concluded on Sunday. Here's my take on it and the the power of deliberative mini-publics to support robust public policy, social cohesion and better democracy www.gchu.org.uk/2025/03/tran... @gchuoxford.bsky.social
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Tim Schwanen @timschwanen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
New @tsuoxford.bsky.social paper in Case Studies on Transport Policy on the socio-spatially uneven use of shared e-scooters in Bristol, the UK city with the largest shared e-scooter trial, led by @hbudnitz.bsky.social with @xiaoli-transport.bsky.social & Helen Morrissey: doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...
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Redirecting
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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...
A screenshot of slides drawn from 7 slide decks, showing the range of topics addressed on the webpage
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Gaurav Mittal @gauravmittal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We, at @tsuoxford.bsky.social, are excited to host Dr Daniel Agbiboa from @harvard.edu for our first seminar of the Public Seminar Series 2025 on 23rd January. The session will be chaired by @valenmontoya.bsky.social. Please join in! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transport-...
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Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity
Dr Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University kicks off the TSU Seminar Series for 2025
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Shiv Yücel @sgyucel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🌆 ☀️ New pre-print online! “Everyday adaptation to summer heatwaves: A global perspective” with Yuan Liang, Donggen Wang, and @timschwanen.bsky.social. 🧵Thread below: 1/4 Full link to pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Tim Schwanen @timschwanen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The special issue of Environment & Planning F on 'Geographies of Value and Valuation' is out! It has been a joy and privilege to work on this, and I want to thank the contributors for their wonderful manuscripts and patience. 7/9 pieces OA. More information on: journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPF/curr...
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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
@njklein.bsky.social, Orly Linovski, Mike Smart & I r researching qualitative research in transportation & r starting a listserv for qual researchers in transport. Hope it can be a forum for community building sharing insights/challenges, exchanging resources, collaboration & more. DM for sign up .
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We are looking for new colleagues @geogdurham.bsky.social & any questions just ask. Just think, next year you too could be at the Xmas party bake-off 🙌
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Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Read what we've been up to over the last few months in our latest newsletter for Michaelmas Term. mailchi.mp/04e216a2073e...
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Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Sign up for a lunchtime discussion and book launch on "Cities rethought" chaired by @timschwanen.bsky.social www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/citie...
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‘Cities rethought’: a book launch and lunchtime discussion
In a short discussion, Professor Fran Tonkiss , LSE and Professor Gillian Rose , School of Geography & the Environment, will comment on the book’s place…
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