Publications and Presentations

Imagining the Future City: London 2062
Ubiquity Press (2013)
Sarah Bell and James Paskins

Testing the activitystat hypothesis: Authors' response
Preventive Medicine, 54(2), 178-179, (2012)
Anna Goodman, Roger Mackett and James Paskins

Crossing disciplines to address urban sustainability
Sustainability: The Journal of Record, 5 (1) 34 - 37, (2012)
James Paskins, Sarah Bell, Muki Haklay, Ben Croxford and Simon Julier
doi:10.1089/SUS.2012.9991

Day length and weather effects on children’s physical activity and participation in play, sports and active travel
Journal of Physical Activity & Health (In press)
Anna Goodman, Roger Mackett, and James Paskins

Activity compensation and activity synergy in British 8-13 year olds
Preventive Medicine, 53, 293–298, (2011)
Anna Goodman, James Paskins and Roger Mackett

Crossing Disciplines to Address Urban Sustainability
Paper written for presentation at EASST_010 Conference for the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Trento, Italy (2 September 2010)
James Paskins, Sarah Bell, Muki Haklay, Ben Croxford and Simon Julier
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Coordination between Pedestrians and Wheelchair Users:
Results from an Agent-Based Learning Simulation Model
Poster produced for presentation at TRANSED
Shepley Orr and James Paskins

Children's Physical Activity:
The Contribution of Playing and Walking
Children & Society (2008)
Roger Mackett and James Paskins

Gender differences in children’s pathways to independent mobility
Children’s Geographies, 6(4), 385-401 (2008)
Belinda Brown, Roger Mackett, Yi Gong, Kay Kitazawa and James Paskins

Winners and losers in streetscape allocation.
Paper presented at UTSG 2008
Portsmouth, January 2008
Peter Jones and James Paskins*

Distributional impacts of sector strategies and schemes:
development of a spreadsheet tool to assist in identifying cross-sector impacts
Report to the EPSRC funded DISTILLATE programme (May 2008)
Peter Jones and James Paskins
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Setting children free: children’s independent movement in the local environment
Paper submitted for the Special Issue of Built Environment on ‘Critical approaches to designing environments/environments designed for children’ (2007)
Roger Mackett, Belinda Brown, Yi Gong, Kay Kitazawa and James Paskins
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Gender differences in children’s pathways to independent mobility
Special Issue of Children’s Geographies on ‘New research/directions in Children’s Geographies’ (2007)
Belinda Brown, Roger Mackett, Yi Gong, Kay Kitazawa, James Paskins

Children’s local travel behaviour - how the environment influences, controls and facilitates it
Paper written for presentation at the World Conference on Transport Research, Berkeley, California, June 2007
Roger Mackett, Yi Gong, Kay Kitazawa and James Paskins

The influence of independent mobility on children’s walking patterns and behaviour
Paper presented at the Walk21 Conference, Toronto, Canada, 1-4 October 2007.
Roger Mackett, Belinda Brown, Yi Gong, Kay Kitazawa and James Paskins

Children and the environment: the influence of attitudes, perceptions and social networks on behaviour and activity patterns
Presentation at the first International Symposium on Environment, Behaviour and Society
Department of Architecture, University of Sydney 9-11 February 2006
Roger Mackett and James Paskins

Set the children free: exploring children’s independent movement
Presentation at the conference on New Directions in Children’s Geographies
University of Northampton, 7-8 September 2006
Roger Mackett, Belinda Brown and James Paskins

Where do children walk (and what do they do when they get there)?
Paper presented at the WALK21 Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 23-26 October 2006
Roger Mackett, Yi Gong, Kay Kitazawa, and James Paskins

Measuring the outcomes from transport interventions for children
Paper presented at the Creating Lively Neighbourhoods: Children and Active Transport Symposium
Melbourne, Australia, October 2006
Roger Mackett, Belinda Brown, Yi Gong, Kay Kitazawa, and James Paskins

Are differences in children's travel reflected in their cognitive maps?
Chapter 5 in Traffic and transport psychology: theory and application editted by By Geoffrey D. M. Underwood
James Paskins
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The therapeutic value of children’s everyday travel
Transportation Research A, 39, 205-219 (2005)
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin).

Children and the local environment: breaking down the barriers
Presentation at the Conference on Emerging Issues in the Geographies of Children and Youth
Brunel University, 23-24 June 2005
Roger Mackett and James Paskins

A Child's eye view of the local environment
Presentation at the Conference on Emerging Issues in the Geographies of Children and Youth
Brunel University, 23-24 June 2005
James Paskins and Belinda Brown
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Overcoming the barriers to walking for children
Paper presented at the Walk21 Conference
Zurich, Switzerland, 22-23 September 2005
Roger Mackett, James Paskins and Belinda Brown
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The role of transport in children’s daily physical activity
Paper presented at the Walk21 Satellite Symposium on Transport-Related Physical Activity and Health, held at the Federal Office of Sport, Magglingen, Switzerland, 18-20 September 2005
Roger Mackett and James Paskins

Increasing the amount of walking by children
Paper written for presentation at the World Conference on Transport Research
Istanbul, Turkey, July 2004
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin

Cities for children: the effects of car use on their lives
Paper written for the Walk21-V cities for People Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-11 June, 2004
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin

CATS: Measuring children’s daily physical activity
Presentation at the Play Research Network
Blackpool City Learning Centre, Blackpool, 7 June 2004
James Paskins, Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas and Jill Turbin

Measuring children’s daily play in the CATS study
Presentation at the Children’s Play Council
National Children’s Bureau, London, 9 June 2004
James Paskins, Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas and Jill Turbin

The health benefits of walking and playing
Presentation at the conference ‘It’s More than a Walk in the Park’, organised by Living Streets
Southwark Cathedral, London, 8 July 2004
James Paskins, Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas and Jill Turbin
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A methodology for evaluating walking buses as an instrument of urban transport policy
Transport Policy, 10, 179-186 (2003)
based on a paper written for the First Annual Conference of Special Interest Group 10 (Urban Transport Policy Instruments) of the World Conference on Transport Research Society
Leeds, July 2002.
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin

The impact of walking buses
Proceedings of the Transport Practitioners Meeting (PTRC, London)
The University of Nottingham, July 2003
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin

Does body status make a difference to physical activity patterns in two age groups?
Paper written for presentation at the Satellite Symposium on Physical Activity and Weight Management
Tampere, Finland, May 2003
Laurel Edmunds, Roger Mackett, James Paskins, Jill Turbin, Lindsey Lucas and Mark McCarthy

The health benefits of walking to school
Proceedings of the SUSTRANS National Conference on ‘Championing Safe Routes to School: Citizenship in Action’
De Montfort Hall, Leicester, September 2003
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin

The effectiveness of initiatives to reduce children’s car use
Proceedings of the European Transport Conference
Strasbourg, France, October 2003
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin

Walking buses – lessons and prospects
Paper presented at the LARSOA Plenary Meeting
Trumpington, Cambridge, October 2003
Lindsey Lucas, Roger Mackett, James Paskins and Jill Turbin

Walk of life
Leisure Manager, 21, 16-17 (2003)
James Paskins, Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas and Jill Turbin

Why do children travel by car so much, and does it matter?
Presentation at the EPSRC EQUAL Research Network Workshop on ‘Inclusive Transport: today, tomorrow and the future: research challenges’
City Inn, Westminster, London, 20 November 2003
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin
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Understanding the car dependency impacts of children’s car use
Paper written for presentation at the Workshop on ‘Children and Traffic’
Copenhagen, May 2002
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin
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Children's car use: the implications for health and sustainability
European Transport Conference 2002: Managing Demand and Creating Alternatives in Cities
Monday 9 September 2002
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin
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The effects of car use on children’s physical activity patterns
Paper written for presentation at the Symposium on Health Enhancing Physical Activity (HEPA)
Evidence-Based Promotion of Physical Activity
Helsinki, Finland, September 2002
Jill Turbin, Lindsey Lucas, Roger Mackett and James Paskins
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Health benefits of non-car travel by children
Paper written for presentation at the Hertfordshire County Council Centre of Excellence Conference on ‘School and Business Travel Plans’
Hatfield, November 2002
Roger Mackett, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins and Jill Turbin

Health benefits of travel to school - evidence from a study of children’s car use
European Journal of Public Health, 2002, Volume 12 (Supplement) within pages 35-110
Paper written for presentation at the European Public Health Association Conference
Dresden, Germany, November 2002
Roger Mackett, Jill Turbin, Lindsey Lucas, James Paskins, Mike McCarthy and Laurel Edmunds