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In March of this year the Department of Health ceased to support the work of the Blind Mobility Research Unit. In anticipation of this, its Director, Dr Allan Dodds, approached a number of organisations, including the University of Nottingham and the major charities for the blind, in an attempt to stave off closure of the Unit. In spite of receiving over fifty letters of support from the academic community all over the world, no long-term funding resulted from these approaches, although the RNIB had found themselves able to support half a Research Assistant for two years. The Unit no longer exists and the purpose of this article is to remind ourselves of what we have lost as well as to mark the end of an era of applied research.

AbstractThis article discusses major challenges facing intergenerational mobility research in three main domains: (1) the (dis)connection between theory and empirical applications; (2) data gaps; and (3) measurement concerns. In doing so, it highlights theoretical and empirical extensions to better describe, explain and predict complex intergenerational transmission processes in the light of new and rapid administrative data linkages, more mature survey data and other forms of big data. The article concludes with future directions for research.

We work, travel, learn, seek, reflect, take part in dialogues, meet, discuss, and try to create a convivial atmosphere: this is the life story of the Arab Education Forum, and this is also how the story of this book started: from two seminars held three years apart, the idea of this book arose from an evident shortage of literature and knowledge about mobility as a tool for learning, dialogue, and artistic exchange and as a new-old paradigm around the Mediterranean basin. But what kind of knowledge, ideas and visions, do mobility practices generate? How does mobility, and its restrictions, produce and contrast the transformation and alteration of geographies, borders, territories, cities and conflict areas? How do mobility practices contribute to creating new narratives, cultural representations and counter-representations? How could cultural mobility contribute to a responsible and sustainable transformation of society? What are the impacts of mobility? What can be learned through the analysis of the relationship between mobility, art, education, intercultural dialogue, human rights and volunteerism?The present volume covers and reflects on these several crucial issues that shape the contemporary age, and provides some new and fresh perspectives about the challenges of mobility

Intro -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Current State and Perspectives of Sustainable Mobility -- Research Approaches and Objectives of Project NEMo -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Research Methodology -- 2 Sociological and Psychological Enhancement of the Community Idea (Module Community) -- 2.1 Relevance -- 2.2 Theoretical Background -- 2.3 Applications and Practical Implications -- 3 Organizational Concepts for Sustainable Mobility Models and Social Self-Organization (Module Organization) -- 3.1 Relevance of the Social Self-Organization Approach for Sustainable Mobility -- 3.2 Theoretical Background -- 3.3 Application and Practical Implications of Social Self-Organization within the Context of the Project -- 4 Development of Suitable Business Models (Module Business Models) -- 4.1 Relevance of Business Model Development -- 4.2 Theoretical Background -- 4.3 Using an Innovative Approach for the Structural Support of Idea and Business Model Generation for the NEMo Platform -- 5 Appropriate Support through Flexible, Adaptable, and Sustainable Software Architectures (Module ICT) -- 5.1 Relevance of Software Architectures for Sustainable Mobility -- 5.2 Theoretical Background -- 5.3 Application and Practical Implications of Software Architectures within the Context of the Project -- 6 Summary and Future Work -- References -- The Future of Mobility in Rural Areas: Participation and Co-creation in a Real-World Laboratory -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Postulate of Equivalence of Living Conditions and the Implications for Mobility -- 3 Mobility Turnaround: The Status of the Discussion -- 4 Local Adapted Mobility Solutions: Working in a Real-World Laboratory -- 4.1 The Project ``wat nu'' -- 4.2 Real-World Laboratories: Concepts and Features.

Menées par des historiens et des sociologues, les recherches concernant la mobilité sociale à long terme se conforment à un programme commun consistant à mettre la mobilité absolue, la mobilité relative et la stratification sociale en relation avec l'industrialisation. Elles s'appuient sur des méthodes de travail opérationnelles susceptibles de vérifier les hypothèses proposées en les confrontant à un riche matériau historique. L'analyse de la mobilité de la stratification sociale et de la mobilité sociale à Berlin entre 1825 et 1957 vise à prouver la validité d'une telle approche historique. Les taux de mobilité totale, intergénérationnelle ou matrimoniale, ne laissent certes pas apparaître de corrélation particulière avec l'industrialisation. Toutefois, les données berlinoises, concernant la mobilité intergénérationnelle relative, corroborent davantage l'hypothèse d'une ouverture progressive et croissante qu'elle ne confirme celle de l'absence de changement ou celle d'une croissance ponctuelle au début de l'industrialisation. Quant à la mobilité matrimoniale, aucune tendance n'est encore perceptible aujourd'hui.