Dr Asa Thomas

• Qualifications:PhD, MSc, BA
• Position:Research Fellow in Active Travel and Micromobility
• Department:School of Architecture and Environment
• Telephone:+441179656261
• Email:Asa.Thomas@uwe.ac.uk
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About me

Asa is a Research Fellow in Active Travel and Micromobility at the Centre for Transport and Society. His research focuses on mobility at the neighbourhood and street level, with a particular interest in the mobility of children, youth and families. His past research has focused on socio-political dimensions of urban street transformation and the impacts of these schemes on mobility behaviour. This work has focused on temporary School Street closures in London and other local active travel schemes like Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in the city.

As part of the ESPRC funded OptiWaSP project Asa is continuing to explore dimensions of school travel, specifically looking at the social dimensions of walking to school and the potential for Walking School Buses to increase levels of active travel. This work, which is spread across three towns and cities in the UK, continues his use of mixed methods research techniques combining walk-along data collection with kids, parental focus groups, and travel behaviour surveys. 

At CTS he also supports ongoing research on rural mobility and active travel as social proscribing, as well as supervising MSc projects and contributing to teaching on our undergraduate and postgraduate transport modules.

Area of expertise

Methods:
Geospatial and Travel Behaviour data analysis in R
Qualitative methods, including mobile interviews 
Survey design and implementation 

Topics:
Children and youth mobility
Transport justice
Travel behaviour (change)
Street experiments/street transformation
Social infrastructure/urban sociality 

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