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Sunil Rodger

Sunil Rodger

Visiting Researcher

sunil.rodger@newcastle.ac.uk

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I am an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods social researcher, with particular interests in the accessibility of cities and transport, understandings of mobility and place, and the role of technologies in civic activism and engagement. My research spans sociology, urban studies, disability studies, human-computer interaction, political science, and health.

My PhD was a Digital Civics project, undertaken between Open Lab and the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, and supervised by Professors Janice McLaughlin, David Kirk, Pete Wright, and John Vines. I worked with powered wheelchair users to explore their experiences of mobility and access via ‘go-along’ journeys, and how these experiences might be used in civic conversations to bring about more accessible places. Participants took me on journeys of their choice, during which they captured video and data about their experiences using a custom smartphone-based tool. These data were used in semi-structured interviews reflecting on their experiences, and in subsequent group Skype workshops which facilitated collective sense-making and ideation.

Following my PhD I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University Hospital Freiburg, Germany. I now work for the Competition and Markets Authority, in the field of digital regulation, and remain a visiting researcher at Open Lab where I have been involved in the 'Metro Futures' series of projects.

Project Title

Metro Futures: Co-designing the future of Tyne and Wear Metro

Simon Bowen Rob Anderson Jennifer Manuel ⋯
Project Title

Journeycam: Exploring experiences of accessibility and mobility among powered wheelchair users

Sunil Rodger Dan Jackson Pete Wright ⋯

2024

Public Engagement, Digital Technology and Transport: Engaging through Open, Early and Experience-Centred Perspectives at Scale

Wilson A Rodger S Bowen S Tewdwr-Jones M

2024 – Contemporary Social Science

Open website 10.1080/21582041.2024.2343880

2023

Metro Futures 2020: Enabling Participation at Varying Depths and Scales via Digital Technology

Bowen S Wilson A Rodger S Feltwell T Nappey T

2023 – International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

Open website 10.1080/10447318.2022.2102085

2019

Exploring the Potential for Technology to Improve Cystic Fibrosis Care Provision: Patient and Professional Perspectives

Rodger S O'Hara K

2019 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3359223

JourneyCam: Exploring Experiences of Accessibility and Mobility among Powered Wheelchair Users through Video and Data

Rodger S Jackson D Vines J McLaughlin J Wright P

2019 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019)

Open website 10.1145/3290605.3300860

2016

Technology and the Politics of Mobility: Evidence Generation in Accessible Transport Activism

Rodger S Vines J McLaughlin J

2016 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016)

Open website 10.1145/2858036.2858146

2015

Adult care for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the UK

Rodger S Woods KL Bladen CL Stringer A Vry J Gramsch K Kirschner J Thompson R Bushby K Lochmuller H

2015 – Journal of Neurology

Open website 10.1007/s00415-014-7585-3

Did Perception of the Economy Affect Attitudes to Immigration at the 2010 British General Election?

Johnson C Rodger S

2015 – Social Science Quarterly

Open website 10.1111/ssqu.12227

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