Andrew Glover – Centre for Urban Research

RMIT University’s Centre for Urban Research is pleased to invite you to Andrew Glover’s seminar: Academic Air Travel and Non-flying Alternatives.

Seminar brief

Discussing his recent research into academic air travel and non-flying alternatives, Andrew will draw on his findings from a policy review, online survey, and conference ethnography. He will discuss how air travel has by and large been overlooked by university policies as a generator of carbon emissions, and unsustainability. The prospect of finding alternatives to air travel are not simple, and require reconfigurations of everyday academic practices as well as broader policy reorientations in the Australian University sector.

More about Andrew

Andrew Glover is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT. He currently works in the Sustainable Urban Precincts Project (SUPP), researching academic air travel, mobility, and remote presence as part of contemporary academic work life ecology. More broadly, his research interests lie in sustainability, theories of practice, consumption, reuse, and waste. Prior to his current research at RMIT, Andrew completed his Phd at the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures on the topic of household material divestment.