Team
Dr Jennie Middleton, Principal Investigator
Jennie is an Associate Professor in the Transport Studies Unit and School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. She is also the Tutorial Fellow in Geography at St Anne’s College. Jennie is a human geographer with interests in everyday mobilities, urban austerity, care in the city, and innovative methodologies for urban research. She is particularly concerned with people’s differential experiences of contemporary urban life and the implications of this for urban and transport policy. Her work to date has been funded by the British Academy, ESRC, and the Wellcome Trust.
Dr Anna Plyushteva, Co-Investigator
Anna is a human geographer working between the Transport Studies Unit and the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Her research, teaching, and outreach explore ways of addressing urban inequalities across the key themes of infrastructures, economies, and mobilities. Anna is especially interested in the roles of gender, care, and hope in the creation of more inclusive urban spaces. She has conducted research across the UK, as well as internationally. Further details about her current work can be found here.
Dr Haifa AlArasi, Postdoctoral Researcher
Haifa is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford. Her scholarship draws on the mundane as means of broadening constructions of childhoods, mobilities, and cities. In her research, she engages with critical qualitative methodologies and grounded spatial visualizations to better understand reproductions of marginalized bodies, experiences, and spaces.
Dr Daniel Muñoz, Researcher
Daniel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile. His research interest is on the embodied dimension of everyday mobility practices, especially around how transport infrastructures and diverse bodies interact with each other. Daniel has experimented with ethnographic and creative methodological tools including go-along interviews and making comics. He specialises in multimodal video analysis based on the principles of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA).
