Monika Buscher supervises 2 postgraduate research students. If these students have produced research profiles, these are listed below:
Student research profiles
Professor
Monika’s research explores the digital dimension of contemporary ‘mobile lives’. She combines qualitative, often ethnographic studies of everyday practices, social theory and design through mobile, experimental, ‘inventive’ engagement with industry and stakeholders. An analytical orientation to intersecting physical and virtual mobilities, blocked movements and immobilities of people, objects and information drives this work. Monika’s most recent research brings this perspective to the informationalization of large-scale multi-agency emergency response, which raises opportunities and challenges around social media-based public engagement, agile and ‘whole community’ approaches to disaster response, data sharing, data protection and privacy.
I am interested in working with PhD candidates in the areas of sociology, media studies, mobilities research, science and technology studies and have particular research interests in: Mobilities, mobile technology, mobile media Science, technology, responsible research and innovation Digital media and online cultures Design, art, creativity Disaster, crisis, security
Monika Büscher is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, and Associate Director in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University. She co-edits the book series Changing Mobilities.
Monika currently leads research on decarbonising transport, disaster mobilities and ethical, legal and social issues of IT innovation in a range of different projects.
Most recent publications
Büscher, M., Cronshaw, C., Kirkbride, A., Spurling, N., 2023. Making Response-Ability: Societal Readiness Assessment for Sustainability Governance. Sustainability 15, 5140. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15065140
Büscher, Monika; Clark, Julie; Colderley, Rosslyn; Kirkbride, Alistair; Larty, Joanne; McCulloch, Shona; Moody, Emma; Mullis, Elizabeth; Phillips, Ian; Vaudrey, William; Willshaw, Kate 2022 Cumbria 2037: Decarbonising Mobility Futures. Leeds: DecarboN8 Research Network
Büscher, Monika and Cronan Cronshaw. 2022. The Little Book of Societal Readiness. ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University. ISBN 978-1-7397133-2-4
Cabalquinto, E.C.B., Büscher, M., 2022. Between existential mobility and intimacy 5.0: translocal care in pandemic times. Media, Culture & Society 01634437221119295. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221119295
Boersma, Kees, Monika Büscher, and Chiara Fonio. 2022. ‘Crisis Management, Surveillance, and Digital Ethics in the COVID-19 Era’. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 30 (1): 2–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12398.
Academic collaborations
Honorary Doctorate Roskilde University, Denmark
Member of journal editorial boards:
Mobilitieshttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmob20
Applied Mobilitieshttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rapm20
Frontiers: Disaster Communicationshttp://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/communication/section/disaster-communications
Further Information
Monika's theoretical orientation builds on phenomenology, pragmatism, ethnomethodology, workplace studies, science and technology studies, feminist theory, non-representational theory. Public sociology, participatory design, computer supported cooperative work, design studies and service design furnish epistemologies and methodologies for engagement with stakeholders.
The book series Changing Mobilities, which I edit together wih Peter Adey, invites contributions that address the empirical realities of changing mobilities and opportunities to inform design, policy and social change.
Please contact me at m.buscher@lancaster.ac.uk
Twitter @mbuscher
My Guidance and Feedback Hours are Mondays 10:30-11:30 and Tuesdays 11:30-12:30. I'm also happy to consider offering bespoke meetings outside my Guidance and Feedback Hours. Please book an appointment using this link.
My research explores the digital dimension of contemporary ‘mobile lives’ with a particular focus on:
My work combines social research with design and innovation. It involves close engagement with diverse collaborators from industry and diverse stakeholder organisations. It is interdisciplinary, experimental, engaged ‘public sociology’ designed to explore and shape socio-technical futures.
Lixiong Chen - Between Participation and Paternalism:
A Study of Weibo-based Networked Crisis Communication in China between 2010 and 2019
Cosmin Popan - Utopias of slow cycling. Imagining a bicycle system
Satya Savitzky - ‘Icy Futures’: Carving the Northern Sea Route
Paula Bialski - Becoming Intimately Mobile
Paula's Thesis has been published: Becoming Intimately Mobile. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Paula now works at Leuphania University
Jen Southern - Comobility: Distance and Proximity on the Move in Locative Art Practice
Jen now works at Lancaster University
Lucy Kimbell - An inventive practice perspective on designing
Lucy works as a an artist, service designer and scholar. http://www.lucykimbell.com
Dr. Sergio Benicio (2009/10): Hypermobility
Dr Jamie O'Brien (2008/9) Honorary Research Fellow - now at EngD Centre in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation Computer Science Department University College London
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