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Dr Mirka Virtanen
(she/her)
Teams and roles for Mirka Virtanen
Lecturer in Transport Planning and Mobilities
Overview
I am an interdisciplinary scholar interested in the politics of planning and delivering sustainable transport systems. My research interests focus on the role of stakeholder participation, resistance and media culture in shaping transport policy outcomes.
My current work explores the ongoing sustainability transition in Welsh transport planning and, specifically, questions around how devolved governance and stakeholder politics interact to influence sustainable transport approaches.
Publication
2023
- Ivins, A. and Virtanen, M. 2023. Planning in, and for, a digital world: UK-Ireland planning research conference, 5th-7th September 2022 [Conference report]. Town Planning Review 94(5), pp. 583-587. (10.3828/tpr.2023.14)
- Virtanen, M. J. 2023. Power, resistance and the Welsh sustainable development agenda: the case of the M4 ‘relief road'. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Erthyglau
- Ivins, A. and Virtanen, M. 2023. Planning in, and for, a digital world: UK-Ireland planning research conference, 5th-7th September 2022 [Conference report]. Town Planning Review 94(5), pp. 583-587. (10.3828/tpr.2023.14)
Gosodiad
- Virtanen, M. J. 2023. Power, resistance and the Welsh sustainable development agenda: the case of the M4 ‘relief road'. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Teaching
Undergraduate:
Sustainable Transport, Year 3
Infrastructure Development: Swift, Smart and Sustainable?, Year 3
Sustainable Development: Concepts, Practices and Challenges, Year 2
Climate Change and Environmental Governance, Year 3
Postgraduate:
Sustainable Transport Policies (module leader)
Transport and the City (module leader)
Environmental Policy and Climate Change
Planning for Sustainability
Previous teaching includes:
Living with Environmental Change, Year 1