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.

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

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 Walking, cycling and micro-mobility Transport health and well-being

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 Systems approaches in transport Quantitative, modelling and GIS techniques

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.

Governance and policy for transport futures Freight management and decarbonisation 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 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.

Planning and design for active travel EVs, MaaS and Autonomous Vehicles 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 Transport in Global South contexts Stakeholder participation and engagement Intersectionality of transport inequalities 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.

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

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.