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Dr Nicola Spurling

Senior Lecturer, Director

  1. Published

    All Change? The future of travel demand and its implications for policy and planning

    Marsden, G., Dales, J., Jones, P., Seagriff, E. & Spurling, N. J., 3/05/2018, DEMAND Centre. 64 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  2. Unpublished

    Authors of Our Own Lives? Individuals, Institutions and the Everyday Practice of Sociology.

    Spurling, N. J., 2010, (Unpublished) Lancaster: Lancaster University. 207 p.

    Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

  3. Published

    Conceptualising connections: energy demand, infrastructures and social practices

    Shove, E., Watson, M. & Spurling, N., 1/08/2015, In: European Journal of Social Theory. 18, 3, p. 274-287 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Demand by design: how our infrastructures and professions shape what we do

    Spurling, N. J., 2015, Sustainability: new questions, new answers. Robison, R. (ed.). Cambridge, UK. : Global Sustainability Institute, ARU, p. 10-17 8 p. 2

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  5. Published

    Differential experiences of time in academic work: how qualities of time are made in practice

    Spurling, N., 1/11/2015, In: Time and Society. 24, 3, p. 367-389 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Entities, performances and interventions

    Spurling, N. J., 2014, Practices, the Built Environment and Sustainability: A Thinking Note Collection. Foulds, C. & Jensen, C. L. (eds.). Cambridge, Copenhagen, London: GSI, DIST, BSA CCSG

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNOther chapter contribution

  7. Published

    Everyday futures: essay collection

    Spurling, N. J. (ed.) & Kuijer, L. (ed.), 2016, Lancaster and Eindhoven: Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University. 77 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsProceedings

  8. Published

    Everyday futures: a new interdisciplinary area of research

    Kuijer, L. (ed.) & Spurling, N. J. (ed.), 1/03/2017, Interactions, XXIV, 2, p. 35-56 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationEditorial

  9. Published

    Everyday futures: A new interdisciplinary area of research

    Kuijer, L. & Spurling, N., 1/03/2017, Interactions, 24, 2, p. 34-37 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

  10. Published

    Grow your own: space, planning, practice and everyday futures of domestic food production

    Marcore, E. & Spurling, N. J., 2016, Everyday futures: essay collection. Lancaster: Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, p. 32-40 8 p. 6

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNOther chapter contribution

  11. Published

    Intergenerational (Im)mobilities: Living on without Children in the Family Tree

    Spurling, N., 31/07/2022, In: Mobility Humanities. 1, 2, p. 95-116 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Interventions in practice: reframing policy approaches to consumer behaviour

    Spurling, N. J., McMeekin, A., Southerton, D., Shove, E. A. & Welch, D., 2013, Manchester: Sustainable Practices Research Group. 56 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  13. Published

    Interventions in practices: sustainable mobility policies in England

    Spurling, N. & McMeekin, A., 2015, Social practices, intervention and sustainability: beyond behaviour change. Strengers, Y. & Maller, C. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 78-94 17 p. (Routledge Studies in Sustainability).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  14. Published

    Lines: Material Cultures of Future Mobility

    Spurling, N., 23/11/2021, Routledge Handbook of Social Futures. Lopez-Galviz, C. & Spiers, E. (eds.). 1st ed. London & New York: Routledge, p. 180-188 9 p. (Routledge International Handbooks).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  15. Published

    Making Response-Ability: Societal Readiness Assessment for Sustainability Governance

    Büscher, M., Cronshaw, C., Kirkbride, A. & Spurling, N., 14/03/2023, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 15, 6, 5140.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Making Space for the Car at Home: Planning, priorities and practices

    Spurling, N. J., 21/09/2018, Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies. Shove, E. & Trentmann, F. (eds.). London: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  17. Published

    Matters of time: Materiality and the changing temporal organisation of everyday energy consumption

    Spurling, N. J., 1/05/2021, In: Journal of Consumer Culture. 21, 2, p. 146-163 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Parking behaviour: The relationship between parking space, everyday life and travel demand in the UK

    Spurling, N. J., 1/02/2020, In: Land Use Policy. 91, 8 p., 103872.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Qualities of connective tissue in hospital life: how complexes of practices change over time

    Blue, S. J. & Spurling, N. J., 13/12/2016, The nexus of practice: connections, constellations and practitioners. Hui, A., Schatzki, T. & Shove, E. (eds.). London: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  20. Published

    Research strategies: ‘capital’ and the goods of social science research

    Spurling, N., 2012, Tribes and territories in the 21st century: rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. Trowler, P., Saunders, M. & Bamber, V. (eds.). London: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  21. Published

    Shared Mobility: Where now, where next? Second Report of the Commission on Travel Demand

    Marsden, G., Anable, J., Bray, J., Seagriff, E. & Spurling, N., 17/09/2019, Centre for Research in Energy Demand Solutions. 40 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  22. Published

    Sustainable practice

    Shove, E. & Spurling, N., 2013, Sustainable practices: social theory and climate change. London: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  23. Published

    Sustainable practices: social theory and climate change

    Shove, E. & Spurling, N., 2013, London: Routledge. 224 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  24. Published

    The Relationship Between (Practice) Theory and Policy Intervention: An in-progress framework

    Spurling, N. J., 2014, Lancaster: DEMAND Centre, p. 1-9, 9 p. (DEMAND Working Papers; no. 13).

    Research output: Working paper

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