KATE PANGBOURNE
Co-Investigator
Kate is Professor of Transport Transitions in the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with an academic background spanning social and environmental sciences, humanities and computer science. She is currently the Governance Theme Lead for the multi-institution Energy Demand Research Centre, co-lead of the ITS Social and Political Sciences Research Group and a Deputy Director of the Leeds Social Sciences Institute.
Kate’s work on transport governance and smart mobility investigates the power relations, structures, scales and processes involved in strategic vision and implementation of transport policies, drawing on notions of state (spatial) projects, multi-level governance, socio-technical transitions and collaborative advantage. Her work on behaviour change engages with behavioural science, persuasion and mobile technologies.
She is a former Chair of the Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society, where she received the Alan Hay Award for Significant Contributions to Transport Geography.
University of Leeds
