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Professor Margaret Grieco, D. Phil (Oxon)Professor of Transport and Society |
Professor Margaret Grieco is series editor of the Transport and Society book series and the Voices in Development Management book series, both published by Ashgate Press.
Professor Grieco was seconded for six months a year as salaried Visiting Full Professor to the Institute for African Development at Cornell University, USA from 2003 until 2010.
At IAD, she remains one of the series editor for the IAD book series published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and taught a course on Transportation and Society with special reference to Africa. Professor Grieco is on the Academic Advisory Board of the Glasgow Museum of Transport and coordinates the Transport and Society Network web pages.
She is also external supervisor and advisor on three doctorates being undertaken at UHI: one of these being undertaken by Jill de Fresnes of Mallaig is on the employment and travel patterns of the 'herring girls' around the coast of Scotland and down to Yarmouth (now completed subject to minor correction) and another being undertaken by Angela Watt is on patterns of intercultural exchange focused around the harbour town of Scalloway, Shetland.
Research Interests
The application of telematics to the reduction of social exclusion; the social geography of transport;
Scottish transport history; community participation in transport policy; gender, family and ethnic studies; transport and development; development and African studies; policy and planning studies; organization and management studies; globalization and social organization; urban and regional studies; new information technology; heritage trails and the public consciousness of history.
These interests take Margaret on many journeys across Scotland and, indeed, elsewhere. To have a sense of these journeys visit the links below and enjoy some 'electronic heritage trails'.
Pentland Firth to the Moray Firth
Snow on Shetland:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Margaret.Grieco/Shetland#
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Margaret.Grieco/Shetland2#
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Margaret.Grieco/Shetland3#
Transport images of Scotland
http://picasaweb.google.com/Margaret.Grieco/Hebrides#
http://picasaweb.google.com/Margaret.Grieco/Hebrides2#
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Margaret.Grieco/TransportImagesOfScotland#
http://picasaweb.google.com/Margaret.Grieco/EdinburghToArbroath#
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Margaret.Grieco/ScottishTrainJourneys#
Professional Activities/Achievements
Visiting Appointments
Salaried Visiting Full Professor, Institute for African Development, Cornell University, 2003 to 2009
Member of Senior Combination Room, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. 1996 to present.
Salaried Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, 2005 to 2006.
Ratan Tata Visiting Fellow, Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India, 2004.
Visiting Full Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 2002.
Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, 2002.
Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute for African Development, Cornell University, 1999.
Professional Service
Book Series Editor: Transport and Society, Ashgate Publications, from 2000.
Book Series Editor: Voices in Development Management, Ashgate Publications, from 1998.
Book Series Editor: Cornell Institute for African Development Series, Cambridge Scholars Press, from 2005.
Editorial Board Member: Critical Perspectives on International Business, from 2003.
Editorial Board Member: Social Responsibility, from 2007.
Editorial Board Member: WAGADU: Women’s and Gender Studies, from 2006.
Member, Academic Advisory Board, Glasgow Museum of Transport, current.
Member of the TRANSGEN ( Gender mainstreaming European Transport Research Policies: a European FP6 Project) Advisory Committee, current.
Steering committee Member, DfT Horizons project on Social Networks and Travel. Grant holders Professors John Urry and Kay Axhausen 2004/2005
Steering committee member, EPSRC Internet project, Centre for Transport and Society, University of the West of England, Grant holder: Professor Glenn Lyons. 2003-
Member of the Stella Transatlantic Thematic Network.
Member of the Mobile Network ESRC funded seminar series on transport and mobility. Speaker, World Bank Transport Forums.
Organiser and convener of professional meetings, including Organiser and convener of a set of three sessions on Accessibility, Mobility and Connectivity:Changing Frontiers of Daily Routines at 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology , Stockholm on July 5-9, 2005.
PhD external examiner, including at sub-Faculty of Economics at University of Oxford; Transport Studies at University of Leeds, Management Studies at University of Aston; Sociology at University of Ghana; Transportation at the University of Ulster; Transportation at Imperial College, University of London.
External Examining, Departments of Sociology and Social Work, University of Ghana.
Reviewer for the ESRC, EPSRC, Swiss Science Research Council, Austrian Science Research Council.
Reviewer for a range of leading journals including Industrial Relations Journal, Urban Studies, Transport Policy and Mobilities.