The UKTRC Summer School programme was a unique practical, research-led residential event designed for PhD research students and early career researchers from across the social sciences who are working on issues of transport and travel. Summer School 2010 was the first of a series of annual events over the lifetime of UKTRC.

Summer School 2010: Understanding Change

Summer School 2010 was organised around the theme of understanding change: be that change in the fabric of society, in methods of organising transport and travel or in the detail of how people respond to short term changes in modes and costs of getting around. Participants explored methods of analysing and understanding change at different scales and with reference to different units of enquiry. For example, change over the life course, in relation to trajectories of institutional and infrastructural innovation and to the role of the state. The summer school also addressed change in policy: how is policy change conceived and enacted; how do policies change practice, and how do policies themselves evolve? Equally, how is institutional change facilitated and blocked?

The event programme

Read the full write up of the summer school