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Share Your Science Forum – 23 September 2026 – 12:00 GMT (please note timezone!)

Dear Colleagues in the VREF Next Generation Scholars community,
We are happy to share this invitation and hope to see you at Share Your Science Forum – Special Theme: South Asia for NextGen scholars across the three programs: ISM, MAC and Walking.

About the Share Your Science Forum

Mobility in South Asian cities is shaped by more than the availability and connectivity of transport networks. Questions of access, inclusion, and power are important to examine who is able to move, whose mobility needs are recognised, and whose forms of mobility remain overlooked or excluded by conventional planning approaches. While walking, public transport, and informal mobility systems are essential to everyday urban life, access to them is shaped by socioeconomic inequalities, gender, safety, spatial conditions, institutional practices, and transport policies. Rethinking mobility through these intersecting dimensions is essential for creating more inclusive and equitable South Asian cities.

Program

Moderators
Nisha Nair and Shahan Ahmed
Logistical Host
Karin Henriksson, VREF

Welcome and Introduction: Henrik Nolmark, VREF
VREF Next Generation Initiative: Short orientation and updates, Paschalin Basil and Shahan Ahmed

Presentations

• “Who walks to the metro stations? Spatial and socioeconomic determinants of walking access in Lahore, Pakistan“
  Presenter: Dr. Muhammad Nadeem,University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
  Discussant: Daniel Neville DSouza, CEPT, India
  
• “From Connectivity to Inclusion: Integrating Public Transport and IPT through a GEDSI Lens in Erode, India“
  Presenter: Kavya Muthukrishnan, CEEW, India
  Discussant: Sana Iqbal, Pakistan
  
• “Between the Pedals: Livelihoods, Precarity, and the Politics of Informal  Transport in Bangladesh”
  Presenter: Shahinur Bashar, Bangladesh 
  Discussant:  Nishant Singh, IIHS, India

We warmly invite you to join us on 23 September 2026 at 12:00 GMT.