no picture	Dr. Maria Lohan: Research Fellow Employment Research Centre (ERC) Dept. of Sociology Trinity College 1 College Green Dublin 2 Tel: ++353 1 6083443 Fax: ++353 1 6771300 http://www.tcd.ie/erc/cars/
Recent research Dr. Maria Lohan is a research fellow at the Employment Research Centre (ERC) at the Department of Sociology TCD. Her main area of research expertise is in the sociology of science and technology with special reference to ICTs and transport technologies. Her doctoral thesis (Ph.D.,TCD, 1998) investigated the relationships of gender (masculinities) and domestic telephony. She is currently researching sustainable transport in a European urban context in the project Scenarios for Sustainable Technology (SceneSusTech) (see over for details). She is the Irish representative on the COST 269 Action on User Aspects of ICTs. Together with the Chartered Institute of Transport, Ireland, she will be an Irish partner in an EU fifth-framework project: Promotion of Research in Transport Research and Learning (PORTAL).
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Recent Paper Lohan, M. and Wickham, J. (1998) Car Systems in European Cities: Environment and Social Exclusion. A Literature Review. Employment Research Centre (ERC), Dept. of Sociology Trinity College. Wickham, J. and Lohan, M. (1998) The Social Shaping of European Urban Car Systems. ERC, Trinity College Dublin. Lohan, Maria (1998) The Car-System in Dublin City: Descriptive Account of Origins and Developments of Car-System in Dublin. ERC, Trinity College Dublin. (1998): LUAS light rail for Dublin-Going Underground? Case-Study of a Transport Decision ERC, Trinity College Dublin. (1999) Drive til you Shop Liffey Valley: Where the M50 meets the N4. Case-Study of a Transport Decision ERC, Trinity College Dublin. (1999) Ethnography of Local Transport Use in Dublin: Jobstown, Clonskeagh and Docklands ERC, Trinity College.
Interest in Cost269 I propose to also make a web link to an association I am involved in: The European Association of Science and Technology Studies (EASST): http://www.chem.uva.nl/easst/easst.html International Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S): http://its2.ocs.lsu.edu/guests/ssss/public_html/