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SUMMARY:Schrödinger’s Trucker: Presence and Absence in Mobile Freight W
 ork
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260616T173000
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DESCRIPTION:Lorry drivers are essential to modern economies\, moving goods
  across vast distances and sustaining everyday life. Yet their work often 
 occupies a strange position: highly visible in practice\, but curiously ab
 sent across urban planning\, occupational policy\, and infrastructure desi
 gn and operation. This means that they quickly become out of place\, opera
 ting in spaces that are not quite right for their needs\, or where they ar
 e made to feel in the way of other users.\n\nThis free lecture from Dr Deb
 bie Hopkins uses 'Schrödinger’s Trucker' as a metaphor to describe the 
 ways through which mobile workers are simultaneously present and absent in
  discourse\, policy and practice.\n\nDrawing on a decade’s empirical res
 earch in the UK road haulage industry\, including the ESRC 'Trucking Lives
 ' project\, Dr Hopkins will use visual and textual storytelling to depict 
 the everyday experiences of UK lorry drivers\, showing how the presence–
 absence dynamic has material consequences: shaping working conditions\, in
 fluencing policy blind spots\, and reinforcing the invisibility of critica
 l labour. By making these dynamics visible\, we invite a broader reconside
 ration of how we recognise and value mobile work in contemporary society.\
 n\nThis lecture is part of the Rewley House Lecture Series. These lectures
  provide an opportunity to experience the extraordinarily diverse research
  interests of academics from across and beyond Oxford Lifelong Learning\, 
 and to participate in multidisciplinary debate. Lectures are free and open
  to all.
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LOCATION:Rewley House - Lecture Theatre\, Lecture Theatre Rewley House 1-7
  Wellington Square Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 2JA United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Dr Debbie Hopkins (Associate Professor in Human Geography)
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