PROFESSOR CHARLES MUSSELWHITE
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    • Crossing the road in later life
    • A model of an age friendly transport system
    • Older people's travel and mobility needs
    • Older driver safety
    • Giving-up driving in later life
    • A convivial public realm for older people
    • Technological innovations and new mobilties: Attitudes and values of older people.
    • Age Friendly Transport in Greater Manchester
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Media Work

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Discussing older driver safety:-
  • Daily Mail Older drivers are NOT more dangerous than younger motorists,  (27th October 2024).
  • BBC Radio Ulster. Talkback with William Crawley. Part of a live panel debate on older driver safety.  (25th October 2024).
  • The Times Radio. Older driver safety. (27th August 2024).
  • BBC Radio Wales. Are older drivers safe? (22nd August 2024).
  • BBC Radio Wales discussion on the dominance of cars in society (52 mins) (20th February 2024).
  • BBC Radio Stoke discussion on older driver safety and giving-up driving (42.30mins in) (28th November, 2023).
  • ITV Tonight on Elderly Drivers: Putting The Brakes On?  ITV1 (23rd November 2023).
  • BBC article, Fitness to Drive People Should Plan Retirement from Driving.  And appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live (at 5h41) and BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester (at 3h 50). (4th July 2023).
  • BBC Radio Sussex on older driver safety and giving-up driving. (12th April 2023).
  • BBC Radio 4 PM programme, Older driver safety and driving cessation. (10th April 2023).
  • Project Edward Podcast discussing older drivers giving up driving (12th August 2022).
  • CADR podcast discussing giving up driving for older people (4th May 2022).
  • BBC Radio Berkshire discussing older driver safety and licencing (4th May 2022).
  • BBC Radio Wales discussing older driver safety and testing. (3rd May 2022);
  • LBC Radio on older drivers, safety and importance of mobility. (2nd May 2022)
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Podcasts on Designing Spaces and Places for an Ageing Population including:
  • Let’s Talk Preventative Healthcare Podcast Driving Change: Building Age Friendly Communities for Healthier Ageing. (19th September 2024).
  • Discussant on Podcast  Designing highways and transportation for people with dementia, CIHT (16th May 2024). 
  • Podcast. Space, place and an ageing society. With Sophie Yarker. Emerald Podcast Series. (4th February 2022)
  •  Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population. 1202 podcast. (22nd November 2021)

20mph default speed limit media activity:
  • 2024 – April. Quoted in 20mph speed limits splits opinion in Welsh market town, The Guardian (26th April 2024.)
  • 2024 – April. Quoted in Campaigners urge Welsh Government not to U-turn on 20mph, Wales Online (23rd April 2024). Campaigners call for no U-turn on 20mph law. South Wales Evening Post (24th April 2024). 20mph roads change 'by end of year’, Western Mail (front page story) (24th April 2024).
  • 2023 – November. Appear on Agilysis’ Think Agility podcast 20mph evidence and perception (10th November 2023).
  • 2023 – September/October. Appear in What impact will Wales’ new default speed limit have on accidents and journey times. Nation Cymru (16th September 2023), 'It is time we stopped accepting death and injury in the name of freedom of mobility’, Western Mail (19th September 2023), Wales’ residential speed limit is dropping to 20mph, City Transport & Traffic Innovation Magazine, 20mph in Wales: How will it affect accidents and journey times?, Penarth Times (1st October 2023), 20mph in Wales: How will it affect accidents and journey times?   South Wales Argus (1st October 2023), Response to 20mph limit in Wales will be shaped by 'three categories of drivers, Daily Post (3rd October 2023) and New 20mph Speed Limit in Wales: Academics Identify Key Influencers, BNN Network (3rd October, 2023). Appeared on CADR Podcast, 20mph speed limits; love it or hate it – The Research Behind The Scenes, part 2 effect on older people (29th September 2023).

Other recent media activity: 
  • 2024 – February. Appeared on BBC Radio Wales discussion on the dominance of cars in society (52 mins) (20th February 2024).
  • 2023 – October. Quoted in press release for New smart home to support Powys care initiative, Aberystwyth University, (6th October 2023), Powys to be part of innovative study on dementia care, Powys County Times (4th October, 2023). Welsh Council and University Participate in £2m Innovative Technology Care Programme, Business New Wales (12th October, 2023).
  • 2023 – August. Interviewed in articles about our Transport and Health Integrated Research Network research on providing scooters for female students in Pakistan, BBC News - Pakistan: Aberystwyth uni buys students mopeds to stop abuse and Nation Cymru - Female students in Pakistan given mopeds through Aberystwyth University project. (23rd August 2023).
  • 2022 – November. Panellist Rural Futures Hub podcast, Business News Wales, Rural Health and the Importance of Connectivity (16th November 2022).
  • 2022 – November. Panellist PTRC Fireside Chat, Getting to grips with transport challenges by playing games - are you serious? (1st November 2022).
  • 2022 – October. Quoted in the i-News (Independent Newspaper) Roads in the UK are so congested that they are making us less healthy and more lonely (29th October 2022).
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That window view is very important On Evenings with Paul McIntyre, Radio Interview on ABC Tasmania (12th April 2021)

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BBC TV Holding Back the Years on Older Driver Safety (March 2018)
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 BBC Wales interview (12th August 2020)
Coronavirus: 'Horrifying' death rate of dementia patients

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BBC Radio 4: Am I too Old to Drive presented by Julia Langdon (4th March 2019).
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ALL FM Community radio discussion on older drivers (13th February 2019), (also translated in Chinese by Sheung Lok Radio). 
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  • Home
  • Research Projects
    • Community Hubs for Healthy Ageing (CHHA) Project
    • A model of mobility capital for an ageing population
    • Importance of a view from a window
    • Age Friendly Railways
    • Crossing the road in later life
    • A model of an age friendly transport system
    • Older people's travel and mobility needs
    • Older driver safety
    • Giving-up driving in later life
    • A convivial public realm for older people
    • Technological innovations and new mobilties: Attitudes and values of older people.
    • Age Friendly Transport in Greater Manchester
    • Other projects
  • About me
  • My PhD students
  • Media Work
  • Presentations
  • Store