The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) invite you to a workshop on:
Charging Towards Equality: Exploring the Intersection of Electric Mobility and Gender
Speaker: Aditi Khodke, DPhil (PhD) candidate, Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 27th February 2024, 3:45 PM IST onwards. The event will be held online over Zoom.
About the Talk
More than sixty-eight national governments consider vehicle electrification a plausible future to decarbonise transport and lower air pollution. National governments use policies to accelerate the pace of electric vehicle adoption. For example, India has set a goal to have electric vehicles account for 30% of the total vehicles sold by 2030.
At the centre of this accelerated and policy-driven transition to low-carbon technologies arises the question of ‘who benefits from a technological transition?’ A handful of studies examining electric mobility and gender suggest that the transition will unlikely benefit women unless gender inclusion is prioritised. This ongoing doctoral research project draws on empirical data from Delhi, India, to examine ‘how a policy-driven and accelerated transition to electric vehicles (EVs) can be leveraged to promote gender mainstreaming in urban transport’.
The research contributes to the ongoing discussions in sustainability transitions research (STR) on reconfiguring socio-technical regimes to be gender inclusive.
About the Speaker
Aditi Khodke is a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the University of Oxford’s Sustainable Urban Development programme and a member of Kellogg College. She has over 12 years of work experience as a policy researcher and in advisory roles on climate change and urban sustainability. She holds two master’s degrees in Sustainability Science and Sustainable Urban Development from the United Nations University and the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Pune.
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