As of 2026, I am in the third—and, hopefully, final—year of my PhD. I am currently writing up my thesis, which brings together the research I have undertaken over the past few years on urban proximity and mobility justice, exploring how proximity-based planning shapes social outcomes in cities.

While much of my time is now spent at my desk, I have also had the opportunity to share my work with the wider research community, including at the World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC) in Helsinki (June 2026) and the Network on European Communications and Transport Activity Research (NECTAR) Conference in Munich (July 2026).

During the second year of my PhD (2025), I expanded this research through two visiting research stays. At the Urban Data Science group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), I led a study, published in Cities, examining the accessibility of climate shelters for vulnerable populations in Barcelona, investigating how urban accessibility influences the capacity of cities to respond to climate risks.

From September to December 2025, I was based at the Active Travel Academy at the University of Westminster, where I explored the relationship between urban proximity and the cognitive labour involved in mobilities of care.

During the first year of my PhD (2024), I examined the relationship between urban proximity and social cohesion across five Spanish cities. This work was published in Sustainable Cities and Society and presented at the Urban Transition conference in November 2024.