Professor Monika Buscher

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Profile

Monika Büscher is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, and Associate Director in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University. She co-edits the book series Changing Mobilities.

Monika currently leads research on decarbonising transport, disaster mobilities and ethical, legal and social issues of IT innovation in a range of different projects.

Most recent publications

Büscher, M., Cronshaw, C., Kirkbride, A., Spurling, N., 2023. Making Response-Ability: Societal Readiness Assessment for Sustainability Governance. Sustainability 15, 5140. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15065140

Büscher, Monika; Clark, Julie; Colderley, Rosslyn; Kirkbride, Alistair; Larty, Joanne; McCulloch, Shona; Moody, Emma; Mullis, Elizabeth; Phillips, Ian; Vaudrey, William; Willshaw, Kate 2022 Cumbria 2037: Decarbonising Mobility Futures. Leeds: DecarboN8 Research Network

Büscher, Monika and Cronan Cronshaw. 2022. The Little Book of Societal Readiness. ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University. ISBN 978-1-7397133-2-4

Cabalquinto, E.C.B., Büscher, M., 2022. Between existential mobility and intimacy 5.0: translocal care in pandemic times. Media, Culture & Society 01634437221119295. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221119295

Boersma, Kees, Monika Büscher, and Chiara Fonio. 2022. ‘Crisis Management, Surveillance, and Digital Ethics in the COVID-19 Era’. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 30 (1): 2–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12398.

Academic collaborations

Honorary Doctorate Roskilde University, Denmark

Member of journal editorial boards:

Mobilitieshttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmob20

Applied Mobilitieshttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rapm20

Frontiers: Disaster Communicationshttp://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/communication/section/disaster-communications

Further Information

Monika's theoretical orientation builds on phenomenology, pragmatism, ethnomethodology, workplace studies, science and technology studies, feminist theory, non-representational theory. Public sociology, participatory design, computer supported cooperative work, design studies and service design furnish epistemologies and methodologies for engagement with stakeholders.

The book series Changing Mobilities, which I edit together wih Peter Adey, invites contributions that address the empirical realities of changing mobilities and opportunities to inform design, policy and social change.

Please contact me at m.buscher@lancaster.ac.uk

Twitter @mbuscher

Selected Publications

Mobile methods
Buscher, M., Urry, J., Witchger, K. 2010 London : Routledge. 206 p. ISBN: 9780415492416.
Book

Collective intelligence in crises
Buscher, M., Liegl, M., Thomas, V. 2014 In: Social collective intelligence. Springer p. 243-265. 23 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Privacy, security, liberty: ICT in crises
Buscher, M., Liegl, M., Perng, S. 2014 In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. 6, 4, p. 76-92. 17 p.
Journal article

Peripheral response: Microblogging during the 22/7/2011 Norway attacks
Perng, S., Buscher, M., Halvorsrud, R., Wood, L., Stiso, M., Ramirez, L., Al-Akkad, A. 04/2012 In: Proceedings of the 9th International ISCRAM Conference – Vancouver, Canada, April 2012.. Academic Publishers 11 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SoRADash - Societal Readiness Assessment interactive dashboard & integrated web tools for optimising transport decarbonisation innovations
03/04/2023 → 29/09/2023
Research

GCRF: Gridding Equitable Urban Futures in Areas of Transition (GREAT) in Cali, Colombia and Havana, Cuba
01/04/2020 → 30/06/2024
Research

DecarboN8-An Integrated Network to Decarbonise transport
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2022
Research

ISF: DecarboN8 - An Integrated Network to Decarbonise Transport
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023
Research

ISF: DecarboN8 - An Integrated Network to Decarbonise Transport
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2022
Research

H2H Project - Phase 1
18/03/2019 → 08/09/2019
Research

Configuring ethical AI in healthcare
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2021
Research

isITethical? Exchange: Responsible Research for ICT Innovation in Disaster Risk Management
02/01/2018 → 31/07/2018
Other

SODA Plus: Realizing Data Together
01/07/2017 → 31/12/2019
Research

Cyber Security of the Internet of things
28/02/2016 → 31/08/2019
Research

ISF: Mobile Utopia 1851 - 2051
01/02/2016 → 31/12/2016
Research

FP7: SecinCoRe: Secure dynamic cloud for information, communication and resource interoperability....
01/05/2014 → 30/04/2017
Research

Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change
01/11/2011 → 30/04/2015
Research

FP7: Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management
01/04/2011 → 30/06/2015
Research

ZIF: Centre for interdisciplinary research, Univ of Bielefeld , communicating disaster programme
01/03/2011 → 31/05/2011
Research

New Interaction Order
01/02/2011 → 31/10/2012
Other

Hyundai Delegation Visit
Participation in conference - Business/Professional

Societal Readiness Assessment
Other

Infrastructuring Cosmopolitan Mobile Utopia
Invited talk

the 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IsITethical? Participatory Ethics in Crises
Invited talk

EASST
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Realising Data Together Workshops
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Ethics Through Design
Invited talk

European Conference on Networks and Communications
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Is-IT-ethical? Responsible Research and Innovation for Disaster Risk Management
Invited talk

Industry Collaboration
Consultancy

SODA Co-designing Data Together
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

IsITethical? Serious Play with datafication as ethical impact assessment
Invited talk

MPC Data Utopia/Dystopia: Medical data mobilities through multiparty computing
Invited talk

Is IT Ethical? Mobile Work, Mobile Data, Mobile Methods in Crises
Invited talk

ELSI Guidance for Networked Disaster Risk Management
Invited talk

Infrastructuring for Mobile Utopia
Invited talk

Mobile Work - Mobile Methods
Invited talk

‘Right now you can’t get relational’: A Mobile Utopia of Radically Reflexive Resilience
Invited talk

Public Safety Communications
Business Engagement

Information Infrastructuring in Crises
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Collective Intelligence in Crises
Invited talk

Cosmobilities
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Material Mobilities
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

1851-2051 Mobile Utopia
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Mobilizing the Urban Model
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Collective Intelligence in Crises
Invited talk

Futures of the End of Life
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE) Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Federation of the European Union Fire Officer Associations Meeting
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

European Security Research The Next Wave
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Mobility Intersections
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Mobile Situations | Situated Media
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

ISCRAM 2016
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Health|Disaster Mobilities Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

23rd Nordic Symposium of Tourism Research
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Ringvorlesung: You'll Never Walk Alone
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Locating Mobile Media: Making Cooperation Work
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

SecInCore Kick-Off
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

ISCRAM 2014
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Mobilities & Design
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Making Data | Mobilizing Data
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Code in the City
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

The Organisation of Emergency: Between emergency plan, violation of rules and security facades
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

ISCRAM 2013
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Mobilizing Emergency/Disaster Response Workshop
Types of Business and Community - Hosting of external, non-academic visitor

VideoConference
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Materialities, Visualities, Securities
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Centre for Mobilities Research Day
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

FutureEverything
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Mobilizing Communications and Networked Reinvention: Persons, Cities, Social Worlds
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

9th International Conference on Crisis Response and Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

New Interaction Orders, New Mobile Publics?
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

URBAN MOBILITIES: SETTING LONG-TERM FOUNDATIONS FOR TRANSNATIONAL RESEARCH
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Honorary Doctorate
Honorary degree

  • CeMoRe - Centre for Mobilities Research
  • Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities
  • Centre for Science Studies
  • Energy and Society
  • Evaluation
  • Imagination Lancaster
  • Institute for Social Futures Fellow
  • Mobilities.Lab
  • Security Lancaster
  • Security Lancaster (Policy, Law and Ethics)
  • Security Lancaster (Sociology)