Welcome...
I am Professor of Psychology, with a Chair in the Psychology Department at Aberystwyth University. My research involves applying social, environmental and health psychology to understanding and improving relationships between the built environment and transportation and health and wellbeing. In particular I have expertise in environmental gerontology, examining relationships between environment and health in later stages of life, including older people’s road user safety, giving-up driving and creating age friendly neighbourhoods and communities. I have worked on 44 research projects as PI or Co-I totalling almost £25m research income. I am currently Principal Investigator and co-Director the Welsh Government funded £3.1m Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR) project to bring together research in ageing with policy and practice across Wales and a £400k Transport and Health Integrated Research Network (THINK) to bring together those interested in health and transport research. I have authored 49 peer reviewed journal articles, 25 book chapters and have 5 books. I am also Co-Director the University Research Centre for Transport and Mobility (CeTrAM) at Aberystwyth University. I have been an Executive committee member of the British Society of Gerontology (BSG; 2015-20) and founder and co-lead the Special Interest Group at BSG on mobilities and transport in later life. I am also a member of the International Association of Applied Psychology and a board member of the Transport and Health Science Group and am a partner of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. My research has involved over 120 conference presentations including over 50 invited International and national presentations at conferences and I work closely with government, charities and third sector organisations and am keen on public engagement to get my research out into the real world. I have presented at two British Science Festivals (2008 and 2016) and written many articles for the general public. I have appeared on BBC TV and international radio stations on a variety of ageing, mobility and built environment topics. I am Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier’s Journal of Transport & Health and on the editorial board for Age Cymru’s EnvisAGE and Elsevier’s Research in Transportation Business & Management journals.
I have 4 edited books published:
Editor of Transport, Travel and Later Life for Emerald Publishing (2018).
Co-editor (with Hannah Marston and Shannon Freeman) of Mobile e-health for Springer (2017)
Co-editor (with Samuel Nyman et al.) of The Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity Promotion for Palgrave Macmillan.(2018)
Co-editor (with Angela Curl) of Geographies of Transport and Ageing for Palgrave Macmillan (2018)
And I have a new book out now:
Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population: Improving Pedestrian Mobility for Older People. For Emerald..
I am an avid fan of Gosport Borough Football Club (and since moving to Wales, I follow the ups and downs of Swansea City, Port Talbot Town and Llanelli Town) and enjoy progressive rock music. I like living by the sea. I enjoy running, quite slowly, and have run four half marathons (PB 1h 51) and completed three 10km races (PB 49mins). I was delighted to be a runner-up in Swansea University's Research as Art competition 2013 and 2016.
I am not Charlie Musselwhite the blues star!
I have begun my own blog - so see it here.
My full academic CV is here
Contact:
Email: chm93@aber.ac.uk
