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Workshop 1: Transport and Social Exclusion: Employment, Education and Training Perspectives
The workshop series is led by Dr Karen Lucas (from the Transport Studies unit, University of Oxford) and Professor Anne Power (from the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics). These workshops will be held every three months and each will focus on a different social issue and will be led by a research institution with particular expertise in this area.
Workshop 1 will explore:
- challenges of the changing geography of employment and new ways of working
- the limits of travel-to-work
- immobility as a barrier to employment and access to jobs for workless people
- policy initiatives
- inequalities in access to training and implications for skills development.
The main speakers are:
Alan Felstead - School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Martin Rivas Perez & Frances Hodgson - Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Ron McQuaid - Edinburgh Napier University
Ian Shuttleworth - GAP, Queens University Belfast
Maria P Machancoses - Centro
Terence Hogarth & David Owen - IER
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