Monika Buscher - 51福利

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 51福利. 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. . 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 Leeds: DecarboN8 Research Network

Büscher, Monika and Cronan Cronshaw. 2022. . ImaginationLancaster, 51福利. 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.

Boersma, Kees, Monika Büscher, and Chiara Fonio. 2022. ‘’. 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:

Mobilities

Applied Mobilities

Frontiers: 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 , which I edit together wih , invites contributions that address the empirical realities of changing mobilities and opportunities to inform design, policy and social change.

Please contact me at

Twitter @mbuscher

Research Interests

My Guidance and Feedback Hours are Mondays 10:30-11:30 and Tuesdays 11:30-12:30. I'm also happy to consider offering bespoke meetings outside my Guidance and Feedback Hours. .

My research explores the digital dimension of contemporary ‘mobile lives’ with a particular focus on:

everyday practices, especially distributed collaboration, collective intelligence, digital urbanism
relational, affirmative ethics, IT ethics, informational mobilities and informational self-determination
mobile, disclosive and 'inventive' methodologies
co-production of research, policy, socio-technical innovation

My work combines social research with design and innovation. It involves close engagement with diverse collaborators from industry and diverse stakeholder organisations. It is interdisciplinary, experimental, engaged ‘public sociology’ designed to explore and shape socio-technical futures.

Current Teaching

Disasters, why do things go wrong?
MA Mobilities, Society and Change
Media in a Global Age

PhD Supervisions Completed

Lixiong Chen - Between Participation and Paternalism:A Study of Weibo-based Networked Crisis Communication in China between 2010 and 2019

Cosmin Popan - Utopias of slow cycling. Imagining a bicycle system

Satya Savitzky - ‘Icy Futures’: Carving the Northern Sea Route

Paula Bialski - Becoming Intimately Mobile

Paula's Thesis has been published: Becoming Intimately Mobile. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Paula now works at

Jen Southern - Comobility: Distance and Proximity on the Move in Locative Art Practice

Jen now works at

Lucy Kimbell - An inventive practice perspective on designing

Lucy works as a an artist, service designer and scholar.

Research Overview

Monika’s research explores the digital dimension of contemporary ‘mobile lives’. She combines qualitative, often ethnographic studies of everyday practices, social theory and design through mobile, experimental, ‘inventive’ engagement with industry and stakeholders. An analytical orientation to intersecting physical and virtual mobilities, blocked movements and immobilities of people, objects and information drives this work. Monika’s most recent research brings this perspective to the informationalization of large-scale multi-agency emergency response, which raises opportunities and challenges around social media-based public engagement, agile and ‘whole community’ approaches to disaster response, data sharing, data protection and privacy.

PhD Supervision Interests

I am interested in working with PhD candidates in the areas of sociology, media studies, mobilities research, science and technology studies and have particular research interests in: Mobilities, mobile technology, mobile media Science, technology, responsible research and innovation Digital media and online cultures Design, art, creativity Disaster, crisis, security

Selected Publications

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

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

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

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)

03/04/2023 → 29/09/2023
Research

01/04/2020 → 30/06/2024
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01/09/2019 → 31/08/2022
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01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023
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01/09/2019 → 31/08/2022
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18/03/2019 → 08/09/2019
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01/01/2019 → 31/12/2021
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02/01/2018 → 31/07/2018
Other

01/07/2017 → 31/12/2019
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28/02/2016 → 31/08/2019
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01/02/2016 → 31/12/2016
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01/05/2014 → 30/04/2017
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01/11/2011 → 30/04/2015
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01/04/2011 → 30/06/2015
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01/03/2011 → 31/05/2011
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01/02/2011 → 31/10/2012
Other

Participation in conference - Business/Professional

Other

Invited talk

Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Invited talk

Participation in conference -Mixed Audience