Eugeni Vidal Tortosa!
On 18th November 2021, Leeds student Eugeni passed his PhD viva subject to minor deficiencies. The PhD was supervised by Robin Lovelace, Eva Heinen and Richard Mann. Eugeni’s PhD was a thesis via publication with the title “Cycling and socioeconomic disadvantage”. The three papers that contributed to the thesis are now published in high ranking journals:
Vidal Tortosa, E., Lovelace, R., Heinen, E., Mann, R.P., 2021. Socioeconomic inequalities in cycling safety: An analysis of cycling injury risk by residential deprivation level in England. Journal of Transport & Health 23, 101291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101291
Vidal Tortosa, E., Lovelace, R., Heinen, E., Mann, R.P., 2021. Cycling behaviour and socioeconomic disadvantage: An investigation based on the English National Travel Survey. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 152, 173–185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.08.004
Vidal Tortosa, E., Lovelace, R., Heinen, E., Mann, R.P., 2021.
Infrastructure is not enough: interactions between the environment, socioeconomic disadvantage and cycling participation in England. Journal of Transport and Land Use. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2021.1781