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PTRC Fireside Chats

The Fireside Chat Series is characterised as an engaging discussion on contemporary issues; originally founded in 2020 and focused on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has now successfully extended beyond this. Gender balance and other dimensions of diversity and inclusion have been a priority across the ongoing Series. Chaired by Glenn Lyons (Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at UWE Bristol), what started as a well received one-off event has gone on to become a series – predominantly a shared undertaking between Glenn and PTRC. For each Fireside Chat, the recording is available on YouTube and Glenn provides a writeup. These are all assembled below – we hope you find this resource thought-provoking and useful.

The Fireside Chat Series is an ongoing set of engaging discussions on contemporary issues, originally launched in 2020 around COVID-19 and now expanded to wider topics, with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion. Chaired by Glenn Lyons, each session is recorded and shared alongside a written summary, creating a thought-provoking set of resources.