This Framing Event set the broad framework for the workshops that follow, identifying key themes for the whole series.

To view the Framing Event Report please click here and to view the Policy Briefing Note please click here.

Professor Anne Power made an initial presentation, Social Equity and Social Impacts of Transport, to outline the aims and objective for the workshop series and the framing event.

Guest speakers included:

Professor John Hills
Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion
Economic and social inequalities: Where is transport starting from?

Professor John Urry
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, and Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe)
Social Networks and Mobile Lives

Dr Frances Hodgson
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Researching connectivity in everyday lives: networks, resources and methods

Nigel Dotchin
Head of Equalities Policy and Regional and Local Strategy, Department for Transport
The National Policy Perspective

Lee Smith
Principal Research Officer, Social Research and Evaluation Division, Department for Transport
DfT's research on SDIs and SE:developing and using the evidence base

Derek Halden
Director of Derek Halden Consultants and best known for his work planning practical approaches to improve access for people to essential services
Accessibility Planning - Social Impacts and Social Equity

John Smith
Local Transport Planning Office, MerseyTravel
From Policy into Practice - The Merseyside Experience