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Children walking to school, or cycling is the aim of a project in Manchester which one of today's guests, Dr Sarah Mander, works on. She shares her ideas about how to change our patterns of transport use from the morning walk to work or school to worldwide shipping. Professor Tim Schwanen is exploring inclusive transition towards electric mobility and he heads up the transport studies unit at the University of Oxford. They talk to Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Professor Tim Schwanen oversees various researchers exploring transport studies at https://www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/
Dr Sarah Mander is working with the CAST centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations https://cast.ac.uk/ and she talks about the experiences of working with a Manchester community to change school journeys https://ourstreetschorlton.co.uk/
This episode is part of the podcast series Green Thinking: 26 episodes 26 minutes long in the run up to COP26 made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI, exploring the latest research and ideas around understanding and tackling the climate and nature emergency. These are all available from the Arts & Ideas podcast feed - and collected on the Free Thinking website under Green Thinking where you can also find programmes on topics including money, fashion, festivals, rivers, food, soils and the weather. /programmes/p07zg0r2
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Producer: Ruth Watts