Transport and economic austerity: current and future policy agendas

Our monthly GM Policy Hub seminar series which focuses on a different regional policy agenda each month. In January 2023, we will focus on transport and its relationship to economic austerity to address the challenge presented by transport poverty.

Economic austerity policies since 2010 have widened and deepened poverty across the UK. The UK is now considered the most unequal society in Europe. With the cost of living set to rise again, this is an urgent national and local policy issue, including in Greater Manchester where recent measures have addresses the cost of local transport. Transport poverty has recently been recognised as an additional financial burden that many low-income households are struggling with.

Although this issue is well-documented within transport research, we currently know very little about how people are experiencing transport austerity alongside the cost of living crisis. Equally, local transport policies, anti-poverty strategies and planned programmes do not directly confront the transport poverty issue.

When: 1:00-2:30pm, Thursday 26 January

Where: Engineering B, University of Manchester

Speakers:

• Karen Lucas, Professor of Human Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester
• Sarah Marie Hall, Professor of Human Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester

Chaired by: Dr Maria Sharmina, Reader in Energy and Sustainability at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the School of Engineering

 

 

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About the GM Policy Hub seminar series

Join us for our monthly GM Policy Hub seminar series. Each month, we will focus on a different regional policy agenda, with a University of Manchester academic presenting their research on the topic, followed by an audience Q&A. 

Come along to hear about research relating to your work. Following the presentation, take the opportunity to grab a sandwich and network. Meet the academic and the Policy@Manchester team or get to know others working in policy areas across GM.