Gillian Harrison

Dr. Gillian Harrison is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies and a Principal Systems Thinking Analyst at the UK Department for Transport. Her expertise lies in sustainable mobility, transport policy, low carbon transitions, and system dynamics modelling. She holds a MSc/PhD in Low Carbon Technologies and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Education:

• MChem in Chemistry with Forensic and Pharmaceutical Science
• MSc/PhD in Low Carbon Technologies (modelling, policy, and ethics of low carbon vehicles)
• PG Cert in Water and Environmental Management

Research Interests:

• Electro-mobility and automobility systems
• Transport equity and fairness in decarbonisation
• System dynamics modelling for policy appraisal
• Integration of new data forms (e.g., mobile phone tracking) into transport policy

Key Projects:

• Leads the FAME project (EU Horizon Europe) supporting CCAM Partnership
• LIFEBAND (Innovate UK): Developing wristband alternatives for pandemic tracking
• U-PASS: China-EU collaboration on sustainable urban mobility governance
• KARMA: New data forms for mobility behavior analysis

Awards:

• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

Advising & Grants:

• Supervised PhD students on decarbonisation and freight transport in Laos
• Co-led the Social and Political Sciences Research Group at Leeds
• Secured funding from Horizon 2020, Innovate UK, and EU-China collaborations

Labs/Teams: Active in the Spatial Modelling and Dynamics and Social and Political Sciences research groups at ITS Leeds.