An introductory presentation from Professor Greg Marsden to open the DecarboN8 Workshop, 'Decarbonising Transport: Connecting Carbon Targets to Action' held at the Institute for Transport Studies on 07/01/20

2. What is DecarboN8 aiming to do?
• Act as a focal point for the policy actors facing the climate emergency
• Create a shared data platform with Transport for the North
• Stimulate ambitious trials and demonstrations across the North and build leading
technological, behavioural and social learning in from the start
• Build new interdisciplinary research teams to work on projects
• Support the next generation of researchers
• Be an honest broker for challenges, progress and impacts

3. Place Based Decarbonisation

4. Place Based Decarbonisation
Malcolm Morgan – CREDS project

5. Place Based Decarbonisation
Transport for the North
John Spink

6. Who we are and how we are organised
Prof. Kevin Anderson
University of Manchester
Dr. Sara Walker
University of Newcastle
Dr. Danielle
Densley-Tingley
University of
Sheffield
Prof. Monika Büscher
Lancaster University
Prof. Greg Marsden (University of Leeds)
– Network Director
Prof. Karl Whittle (University of Liverpool)
– Research Programme
Dr Samarthia Thanakappan (University of York)
– Equality & Inclusion
Dr Hongjian Sun (Durham University)
– International Event
Shona McCulloch (University of Leeds)
– Network Coordinator
Tina Shield (University of Leeds)
– Network Administrator
Research Fellow*
- T.b.c
Carbon Pathways
Powering
Future
Transport
Digitisation
Demand &
Infrastructure
Societal
Acceptance and
Readiness

7. What sorts of things will we do/support?
• £400k of research projects
• 1st call December 2019 (£100k) and 2 further calls
• Open to all UK academic institutions
• Sandpits, bid building and challenge/theme based workshops
• Stakeholder Reference Group
• Policy cafés and policy briefings
• Innovation workshops
• You tell us…

8. Thank you!
E-Mail: decarbon8@leeds.ac.uk
Twitter: @N8Decarbo
Web: Decarbon8.org.uk