Postgraduate research topics at the Centre for Transport and Society (CTS)

See below topics that CTS members are ready to supervise.

If you are interested in a doctoral or master’s by research study at CTS, then this directory is designed to quickly help you find a relevant supervisor according to broad research topics.

To find CTS staff with expertise in a broad topic area (for example ‘EVs, MaaS and Autonomous Vehicles'), simply select the relevant filter categories and relevant staff cards with contact information will appear below. You can then contact the member of staff to discuss developing a proposal.

If a CTS staff member has any specific PhD projects in mind, these will also be listed on the staff card.

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Bus and rail operations and management Quantitative, modelling and GIS techniques Transport in Global South contexts

Dr Muhammad Adeel

E: muhammad.adeel@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Research Fellow in Transport Analysis.
  • Supervision areas: Modal shift and substitution; travel survey design and statistical analysis; spatial and GIS analysis; Global South impacts of transport projects.

Psychology of travel behaviour Transport health and well-being Walking, cycling and micro-mobility

Dr Caroline Bartle

E: caroline.bartle@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Senior Research Fellow.
  • Supervision areas: Psychology of travel behaviour change; qualitative research methods and analysis; active travel and mobility.

Integrated transport and multi-modality Intersectionality of transport inequalities Stakeholder participation and engagement

Dr Eda Beyazit Ince

E: eda.beyazitince@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Research Fellow.
  • Supervision areas: Travel trends and planning for the future; travel behaviour change; transport, life opportunities and wellbeing; evaluation of transport interventions; travel behaviour over the life course; urban and rural transport policy.

Intersectionality of transport inequalities Psychology of travel behaviour Shared mobility services Transport health and well-being Walking, cycling and micro-mobility

Professor Kiron Chatterjee

E: kiron.chatterjee@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Professor of Travel Behaviour.
  • Supervision areas: Travel trends and planning for the future; travel behaviour change; transport, life opportunities and wellbeing; evaluation of transport interventions; travel behaviour over the life course; urban and rural transport policy.

Bus and rail operations and management Integrated transport and multi-modality Planning and design for active travel Shared mobility services Transport health and well-being

Dr Ben Clark

E: ben4.clark@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Associate Professor: Transport Planning for Sustainable Places.
  • Supervision areas: Planning and design for active travel; car ownership, access and use; travel behaviour change and trends; transport, health and wellbeing; longitudinal methods.

EVs, MaaS and Autonomous Vehicles Quantitative, modelling and GIS techniques Shared mobility services Transport health and well-being Walking, cycling and micro-mobility

Dr Billy Clayton

E: william2.clayton@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Senior Lecturer in Human Geography.
  • Supervision areas: Active travel and e-mobility (e-scooters and e-bikes); travel-time use on public transport; digital technologies and travel experience; mobility justice and social inclusion; mixed methodologies.

Bus and rail operations and management Planning and design for active travel Transport in Global South contexts Walking, cycling and micro-mobility

Dr Jonathan Flower

E: jonathan.flower@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Senior Research Fellow.
  • Supervision areas: Network planning, junction and street design (including use of VR/AR); road safety; human-scale and active mobility; xconnected and automated vehicles; public transport fares and ticketing; Q-methodology.

EVs, MaaS and Autonomous Vehicles Quantitative, modelling and GIS techniques Systems approaches in transport

Dr Amina Hamoud

E: amina.hamoud@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Lecturer in Systems Engineering.
  • Supervision areas: Modelling and simulation; systems engineering; AI and big data, and digital twins; autonomous systems and intelligent mobility; multi sensor fusion modelling.

Freight management and decarbonisation Governance and policy for transport futures Transport futures and scenario methods

Professor Glenn Lyons

E: glenn.lyons@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Mott Macdonald Professor in Future Mobility.
  • Supervision areas: Triple access planning; ICTs and travel behaviour/ experience; travel demand management; transport and social exclusion; scenario and futures methodologies; transport decarbonisation.

EVs, MaaS and Autonomous Vehicles Freight management and decarbonisation Future flight, drones and sustainable aviation Stakeholder participation and engagement Systems approaches in transport Transport futures and scenario methods

Dr Daniela Paddeu

E: daniela.paddeu@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Associate Professor in Sustainable Freight Futures.
  • Supervision areas: Urban freight and logistics; freight decarbonisation; transport systems analysis; stakeholder engagement; Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.

EVs, MaaS and Autonomous Vehicles Future flight, drones and sustainable aviation Governance and policy for transport futures Psychology of travel behaviour

Dr Evita Papazikou

E: evita.papazikou@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Lecturer in Transport Engineering.
  • Supervision areas: Road safety; driver behaviour; cooperative, connected and automated mobility (Autonomous Vehicles); transport planning and policy; smart and safe infrastructure; microsimulation.

EVs, MaaS and Autonomous Vehicles Future flight, drones and sustainable aviation Governance and policy for transport futures Integrated transport and multi-modality

Professor Graham Parkhurst

E: graham.parkhurst@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Professor of Sustainable Mobility.
  • Supervision areas: Sustainable mobility policy; integrated transport strategy; business models of sustainable mobility innovation; social science perspectives on connected automated mobility; social science perspectives on electric vehicles; social science perspectives on future flight.

EVs, MaaS and Autonomous Vehicles Planning and design for active travel Walking, cycling and micro-mobility

Dr Luc Pellecuer

E: luc.pellecuer@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
  • Supervision areas: Street design and traffic engineering; social and environmental impact of traffic; active travel and mobility; telematics data in transport.

EVs, MaaS and Autonomous Vehicles Intersectionality of transport inequalities Stakeholder participation and engagement Transport in Global South contexts Walking, cycling and micro-mobility

Professor Justin Spinney

E: justin.spinney@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Professor of Transport and Mobility Studies.
  • Supervision areas: Active travel and mobility; economic sociology of mobility; gender, youth, impairment and mobility justice; post-structural theory and political economy; ethnographic and go-along methods.

Intersectionality of transport inequalities Planning and design for active travel Stakeholder participation and engagement Walking, cycling and micro-mobility

Dr Asa Thomas

E: asa.thomas@uwe.ac.uk

  • Position: Research Fellow in Active Travel and Micromobility.
  • Supervision areas: School and youth mobilities; tactical urbanism and street experiments; social infrastructure and sociability in transport; transport justice; quasi experimental studies; secondary data.