Charles Musselwhite

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Charles Musselwhite
FAcSS
Born (1975-06-16) 16 June 1975 (age 49)
Alma materTransportation Research Group at University of Southampton (PhD)
Years active1998 – present
Known forEnvironmental and Community Psychology

Charles Brian Alexander Musselwhite FAcSS (born 16 June 1975) is Professor of Psychology at Aberystwyth University. [1]

He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom and educated at Bay House School, Gosport, Hampshire, followed by St Vincent Sixth Form College, Gosport, Hampshire. He went on to read Psychology at University of Southampton (BSc, Psychology, 1998) before completing a PhD in the Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton (PhD, 2004) examining attitudes to car driver behaviour. [2]

He was a lecturer of traffic and transport psychology at the Centre for Transport & Society at University West of England from 2006 to 2013, and associate professor in gerontology at the Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University, between 2013 and 2021. [1] He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Transport and Health. [3] His research focuses on environmental gerontology, environment and health in later stages of life, giving-up driving, age friendly neighbourhoods and communities, and social aspects of transport and mobility. [4] In September 2024 he became a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) [5]

Notable works

His most cited work is the development of a hierarchy of travel and mobility needs for older people. [6] The model suggests people travel for three main purposes: getting from A to B as cheaply and reliably as possible; for independence, freedom, status and to satisfy roles and; aesthetic needs, for the journey itself, to feel and experience mobility, to visit or immerse oneself in beautiful surroundings, or to observe others' mobility or to imagine and think about previous or future mobility. [6] He concludes that mobility provision currently does not meet the needs of older people because too much emphasis is placed on practical reasons for travel at the expense of psychosocial or aesthetic motivations.

He has also co-designed a model of mobility based on Bourdieu's theory of capital. The model suggests older people trade off different types of capital in 4 main areas in order to be mobile: [7]

He concludes that infrastructure capital is most important but low levels of such capital can be overcome by social capital, while cultural capital and individual capital are harder to change but still important in achieving mobility. [7]

He has co-edited books on mobile e-health, [8] transport and travel in later life, [9] physical activity in later life [10] and geographies of transport in later life. [11] In 2021 he published Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population [12] which examines how public spaces can be designed to help elderly people stay mobile especially as pedestrians.

Related Research Articles

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References

  1. 1 2 "Expert on ageing appointed to a new Chair of Psychology at Aberystwyth University - Aberystwyth University". www.aber.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  2. ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  3. ↑ "C.B.A. Musselwhite, PhD, PGCert (Distinction), Bsc (Hons) - Editorial Board - Research in Transportation Business & Management - Journal - Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  4. ↑ "Aberystwyth University - Staff". www.aber.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  5. ↑ "September : News , Aberystwyth University". www.aber.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-21.
  6. 1 2 Musselwhite, Charles; Haddad, Hebba (2018-01-01). "Older people's travel and mobility needs: a reflection of a hierarchical model 10 years on". Quality in Ageing and Older Adults. 19 (2): 87–105. doi:10.1108/QAOA-12-2017-0054. ISSN   1471-7794. S2CID   81504269.
  7. 1 2 Musselwhite, Charles; Scott, Theresa (2019). "Developing A Model of Mobility Capital for An Ageing Population". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16 (18): 3327. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16183327 . ISSN   1660-4601. PMC   6765850 . PMID   31509961.
  8. ↑ Marston, Hannah R.; Freeman, Shannon; Musselwhite, Charles, eds. (2017). "Mobile e-Health". Human–Computer Interaction Series. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60672-9. ISBN   978-3-319-60671-2. ISSN   1571-5035. S2CID   1369841.
  9. ↑ Musselwhite, Charles, ed. (2017-11-13). "Transport, Travel and Later Life". Transport and Sustainability. 10. doi:10.1108/s2044-9941201710. ISBN   978-1-78714-624-2. ISSN   2044-9941.
  10. ↑ Nyman, Samuel R.; Barker, Anna; Haines, Terry; Horton, Khim; Musselwhite, Charles; Peeters, Geeske; Victor, Christina R.; Wolff, Julia Katharina, eds. (2018). The Palgrave Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity Promotion. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71291-8. ISBN   978-3-319-71290-1.
  11. ↑ Curl, Angela; Musselwhite, Charles, eds. (2018). Geographies of Transport and Ageing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76360-6. ISBN   978-3-319-76359-0.
  12. ↑ "Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population". Emerald Publishing Limited. 2018. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
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