Under the leadership of Siiri, a new project has been launched:
SMob4All: Sustainable Mobility for All: Potential, Barriers, Enablers
As the name of the project suggests, its aim is to study sustainable mobility that is accessible and inclusive for all. To this end, the project seeks to create new knowledge on sustainable mobility practices and to explore opportunities to promote the adoption of more sustainable mobility behaviour through co-created interventions. These objectives will be pursued through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, drawing on social practice theory.
This interdisciplinary project has four main aims:
- MAP human mobility practices and patterns;
- UNDERSTAND the formation of mobility practices and the adoption of sustainable mobility at both individual and societal levels;
- DEVELOP a model of the potential for sustainable mobility, helping to clarify opportunities for making mobility practices more sustainable;
- PROMOTE sustainable mobility practices in an equitable manner through co-created interventions and targeted recommendations reflecting the participation of policy experts and stakeholders.
This five-year project is funded by the Estonian Research Council with a total budget of 1 349 652 €.
Although the project team is relatively small, it is diverse and brings together broad expertise. From our own lab, the team includes Siiri, Veronika, Ago, Jaanika, and Arvi. In addition, we are very pleased that Karl Saidla has rejoined us as part of this project – welcome back to the lab! We are also happy to collaborate with Amnir Hadachi and Artjom Lind from the Institute of Computer Science and Keiu Telve from the Institute of Cultural Research, who recently completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Edith Cowan University (ECU). Furthermore, we are supported by our dedicated assistant Mirjam, whose daily work is related to Landscape Geography.
To ensure that the team was aligned from the very beginning, the project team decided to start with a team day led by Kaido Pajumaa, where they explored the value of joy at work and how to sustain it within a team. This shared experience helped establish a strong foundation for collaboration and a common understanding of how the team wants to work together throughout the project.
The next five years will be filled with extensive research and many hours of work, but we are confident that the outcomes will be well worth the effort.
We will keep you updated on our progress along the way!
The Mobility Lab of the University of Tartu is an interdisciplinary research group that studies human mobility and its associations with society and the environment using mobile (big) data.