Host Researcher: Dr John Pearson

The aim of this internship is to produce a presentation with recommendations on how Manchester Metropolitan University might promote and incentivise sustainable travel choices in their staff. You will first identify the current approaches to this within the University by researching the current booking systems, institutional policies and authorisation procedures around business travel which the university funds. This will also involve speaking with university staff, their travel booking service and those who authorise travel bookings and set university policies on travel. Once the current position is established, you will work with Manchester Law School staff to identify regulatory principles which might be applied to improve upon this position by incentivising both those booking and those authorising travel to consider and select more sustainable travel options. This work will result in a presentation of your findings and recommendations for improvements which the University might make to its current approaches. This will be submitted to University policy makers in relation to travel and a meeting to discuss the presentation set up to allow you to feedback to them on how the University might move towards being a leader in the sector on sustainable travel policies.