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Dr Clemence Cavoli
Lecturer in Environmental and Transport Policy
Dept of Civil, Environ &Geomatic Eng
Faculty of Engineering Science
- Joined UCL
- 22nd Oct 2009
Research summary
Transitions to Sustainable Urban Mobility (T-SUM) - September 2018 to March 2022
Coordinate and Co-I of a large GCRF/ESRC funded project, T-SUM, focusing on sustainable urban nobility transitions in Maputo, Mozambique and Freetown, Sierra Leone. The project involves 16 partners across sectors and levels of governance, including UN-Habitat & the World Bank. Dr. Cavoli leads teams of various researchers & project partners as Work Package (WP) 3 lead. WP 3 aims to initiate innovative participative policy-making, planning and governance processes to transition towards sustainable urban mobility in Maputo and Freetown, and beyond.
Identifying and short-circuiting urban development paths
Dr. Cavoli is one of the coordinators on a multi-million Euro Horizon 2020 project focusing on developing innovative solutions for growing economies to short-circuit their urban development path. The project analyses historical data to identify recurrent urban development paths linked to mobility in order to better inform current and future policies. Clemence works in close collaboration with local policy-makers across 9 capital cities, in particular in Amman Jordan, Adana Turkey, Skopje Macedonia, Bucharest Romania and Tallinn Estonia. She is in charge of collaborating action across these cities, undertaking analysis and formulating policy recommendations to increase capacity building and innovation.
Mapping Collective Transport in Maputo, Mozambique
Initiated and manages a project based in Maputo, Mozambique focused on collaborative mapping and sustainable mobility. The project develops innovative mapping techniques to better integrate transport systems, using mapping to give visibility and enhance semi-formal collective transport networks.
Behavioural and Societal impact of automation
Explores the societal and governance implications of technological development, in particular those linked to automation. She set up an extensive literature review for the multi-disciplinary project ‘Social and behavioural questions associated with automated vehicles’ commissioned by the Department for Transport.
Transforming evidence into policy-making
Ran an Impact Acceleration Award project, funded by EPSRC. The project aimed to create bridges between academia and policy-making to ensure that significant transport related research outputs are rapidly absorbed into policy-making and have practical impact.
Sustainability in cities
Was responsible for a project investigating barriers to the uptake of local sustainable initiatives funded by UCL Grand Challenge for Sustainable cities.
Innovative data for better policy-making
Was in charge of a CRUCIBLE (Centre for lifelong Health & Wellbeing) project, which investigated the need for national data linking mobility, safety, sustainability and health.
Teaching summary
Intercollegiate Transport Msc - 2018-2019; 2020-2021
In charge of Public Transport Lectures and exam questions and of European Transport Policy lectures
Delivers regular lectures on Environment and Sustainability.
Education
- University College London
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2015
- Universite de la Sorbonne (Paris IV)
- Other higher degree, Master of Research | 2008
- Universite de la Sorbonne (Paris IV)
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts | 2006
Biography
Clemence is a political scientist and historian by background. Researcher and expert in sustainable urban mobility and transport, with a particular focus on innovative governance, policy-making and planning. She specializes in environmental and transport policies and in developing transformative governance for cities, in particular linked with urban mobility.Her research and teaching work has a strong interdisciplinary component and a focus on policy impact. She is based at the Civil, Environmental and Geomatic engineering department, UCL and is involved in various cross-departmental collaborations.
She advises supranational, national and local policy-makers and has done extensive work investigating how to ‘translate’ scientific evidence into policy-making. Clemence spent a year seconded to the Science and Research Unit at the Department for Transport and was responsible for bringing scientific evidence into policy-making. Clemence regularly works as an independent expert and consultant for the European Commission on various FP7 and Horizon 2020 projects related to sustainable mobility. She was seconded to the EU Commission, DG MOVE, for six months working on sustainable urban mobility policies and low carbon transport solutions. She completed a Ph.D at UCL which assessed the impact environmental European Union laws and programmes have had on urban mobility policies. Prior to this she was a project manager and a consultant on sustainable mobility at the Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Spain. She holds a Masters Degree (first class Honours) from the Sorbonne University which she undertook partly in the USA, at Carleton College, and partly in Spain at the Complutense in Madrid.