Second edition of the New Voices Prize

Created in 2017 by the Mobile Lives Forum, the “New Voices” Award promotes outstanding research on mobility by young researchers. In 2020, the Mobile Lives Forum is launching the second "New Voices" Award, in order to showcase the best of mobility research today.

The ten theses and dissertations selected in 2017 were by authors of varying nationalities and disciplines (sociology, geography, urban planning, economics, etc.). They covered a wide variety of themes (the future of cars, the mobility of young people in periurban areas, the resilience of transport systems, etc.) and were each published on our website in the form of short articles accompanied by the full theses and dissertations.

To participate in the 2020 "New Voices" award, please find the relevant information on this page.

Each recipient of the award will receive 200 Euros in the Master’s category and 500 Euros in the Doctoral category, and their work will be published on the Mobile Lives Forum website.

How to participate

Ten awards will be granted. Theses must have been submitted and dissertations defended after 1 September, 2016. The application must be submitted by the supervisor and the application file must include the full thesis or dissertation in its final version, a short biography, as well as an article drafted according to the specifications listed in the document below.

The application must be submitted before 1 December, 2020.

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Call for applications

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Mobility

For the Mobile Lives Forum, mobility is understood as the process of how individuals travel across distances in order to deploy through time and space the activities that make up their lifestyles. These travel practices are embedded in socio-technical systems, produced by transport and communication industries and techniques, and by normative discourses on these practices, with considerable social, environmental and spatial impacts.

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