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The Specifying Practices Enabled by Cycling In FIfteen-minute Cities (SPECIFIC) project has launched it's new website for all news and research updates. 

Is the UK now proactively planning to miss its emission targets? Tim Schwanen, Director of the Transport Studies Unit and Greg Marsden, University of Leeds, explain how the research–policy interface can both challenge downgraded ambition and provide more actionable routes forward.

DPhil student Yi Fan Liu travelled to Singapore to explore the use of a shared electric car service in Singapore. Yi Fan discusses how she goes about the fieldwork for her DPhil research, her experience of the whole rental process and the challenges she encounters.

Dr Jin-ho Chung gives some insight into the  field research for the Climate Mobility, Onward Precarity and Urban Environment (CEMENT) project. Over the past three months, this team has gathered and analysed data about how climate change influences mobility strategies among farming families in southern Ethiopia. 

DPhil student Sieun Lee reflects on their six-month fieldwork trip to Kyoto, Japan, which aimed to explore everyday/night childcare practices and relationships as part of their DPhil project, provisionally titled Nocturnal Relations of Care: everyday practices and affect of childcare in night-time Kyoto. 

 In a recent exercise, four members of the Transport Studies Unit (TSU) embarked on a race from Marston (Oxford) to the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE). 

What exactly is the 15-minute city, and how can it transform our communities? Tim Schwanen explains in a short video.

The TSU were delighted to host Professor Carlos Moreno's lecture on the 15 minute city at the Examination Schools on 29th February

Zakiyya Adam & Tim Schwanen discuss the X-Minute city concept ahead of the TSU's Annual Lecture by Carlos Moreno.