Scholars
Debbie Hopkins
University of Oxford
Based in
United Kingdom
Europe
Debbie is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford. She is jointly appointed between the School of Geography and the Environment and the Department for Continuing Education where she works on the Sustainable Urban Development programme.
Debbie’s research focuses on just and sustainable transformations of mobility configurations, largely centred on what are often described as ‘hard to decarbonise’ parts of the economy — aviation and heavy freight/ supply chains.
Debbie completed her PhD at the Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka – University of Otago, and Master’s at King’s College London.
Country(ies) of Specialty
New Zealand Norway United KingdomFocus areas of expertise
Climate Justice Behavioral action Public opinionPublications
Edited Books
Jenkins, K. & Hopkins, D. [Eds.] (2019). Transitions in Energy Efficiency and Demand: The emergence, diffusion and impact of low-carbon innovation, Routledge, Abingdon, UK. [Open Access].
Hopkins, D. & Higham, J.E.S [Eds.] (2016). Low Carbon Mobility Transitions, GoodFellow Publishers, Oxford, UK. ISBN: 978-1-910158-64-7 hbk; 978-1-910158-65-4 eBook.
Book Chapters
Hopkins, D. (2024) Afterword: What (about) now? Complexities, Omissions and Taking Transitions Seriously, in: Ryghaug, M. et al [Eds]. SSH Mobilities.
Hopkins, D. (2023). Autonomous Lorries, Artificial Intelligence and Urban (Freight) Mobilities, in: Artificial Intelligence and The City, Routledge, Abingdon. DOI: 10.4324/9781003365877-5
Hopkins, D. & Plyushteva, A. (2023). Transport. In: Demeritt, D. & Lees, L. [Eds]. Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series.
Hopkins, D. & Akyelken, N. (2022). MotherTruckers? Gendered work in logistics and freight, In: Wright, T., Budd, L., & Ison, S. [Eds]. Gender and Work in Transport, Emerald Publishing.
Higham, J.E.S., Hopkins, D. & Orchiston, C. (2022). Academic aeromobility in the global periphery, In: Bjørkdahl, K. & Duharte, A.S.F. [Eds]. Academic Aeromobility: Airborne Research in the Anthropocene, Springer, Singapore.
Hopkins, D. & Brand, C. (2021). The Energy Implications of Transport Planning, In: Vickerman, R. [Ed]. The International Encyclopedia of Transportation, Elsevier, London. P. 214-219.
Hopkins, D. (2020). Low Carbon Mobility Transitions, In: Curtis, C. [Ed]. The Handbook of Sustainable Transport, Edward Elgar.
Hopkins, D. & Schwanen, T. (2019). Experimenting with vehicle automation, In: Jenkins, K. & Hopkins, D. [Eds.]. Transitions in Energy Demand: A Sociotechnical Perspective, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Jenkins, K., Sorrell, S., Hopkins, D. & Roberts, C. (2019) New directions in sociotechnical energy demand research. In: Jenkins, K. & Hopkins, D. [Eds.]. Transitions in Energy Demand: A Sociotechnical Perspective, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Jenkins, K., Hopkins, D. & Roberts, C. (2019). Conclusion: Towards systematic reductions in energy demand. In: Jenkins, K. & Hopkins, D. [Eds.]. Transitions in Energy Demand: A Sociotechnical Perspective, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Hopkins, D. & Schwanen, T. (2018). Governing the race to automation, In: Marsden, G. & Reardon, L. [Eds]. Governance of Smart Mobility, Emerald, Bingley, UK.
Hopkins, D. & Markowitz, E.M. (2018). Geographies of climate change belief, In: Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science. Oxford University Press, New York, USA. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.332
Hopkins, D. (2018). Winter sports resources, climate change and the ironies of sports-related mobilities. In: Higham, J.E.S. & Hinch, T. [Eds]. Sport Tourism Development (Edition 3). Part 3, Chapter 7.
Hopkins, D. & Higham, J.E.S. (2018). Climate change and tourism. In: Cooper, C., Gartner, B., Scott, N. & Volo, S. (Eds). Sage Handbook of Tourism Management. Chapter 27.
Hopkins, D. & Mandic, S. (2018). Purposeful leisure mobilities: reframing the walk to school. In: Hall, C.M., Ram, Y., Shoval, N. (Eds). Handbook of Walking Studies, Routledge, Abingdon, p. 100-108.
Hopkins, D. & Higham, J.E.S. (2016). Transitioning to low carbon mobility. In: Hopkins, D. & Higham, J.E.S. [Eds]. Low Carbon Mobility Transitions, Goodfellow Publishers, Oxford, UK.
Higham, J.E.S. & Hopkins, D. (2016). Low carbon mobility: urgent futures and radical transitions. In: Hopkins, D. & Higham, J.E.S. [Eds]. Low Carbon Mobility Transitions, Goodfellow Publishers, Oxford, UK.
Higham, J.E.S. & Hopkins, D. (2014). Wildlife viewing: “Call it consumption!” in the Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Sustainability. In: Gössling, S., Scott, D., Hall, M. (Eds.), Routledge, London.
Hopkins, D. & Becken, S. (2014). Socio-cultural resilience. In: Hall, M., Williams, A., and Lew, A [Eds.] The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Tourism, Wiley-Blackwell, London.
Hopkins, D. & Higham, J.E.S. (2012). Framework conventions for climate change: An analysis of global framework conventions with reference to resource governance and environmental management approaches in New Zealand. In: Holden, A. & Fennell, D. [Eds.] A Handbook of Tourism and the Environment, Routledge, London.
Hopkins, D. (2011). Climatic change narratives in the Scottish ski industry. In: Hinch, T., & Higham, J. [Eds.]. Sport Tourism Development, 2nd Edition, Channel View Publications, Bristol.
Articles
Farstad, E., Higham, J.E.S., Landa Mata, I., Hopkins, D. (2024) Back to the future: Advancing more sustainable tourism through domestic summer holidaying after COVID-19, Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift – Norwegian Journal of Geography DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2024.2416407
Higham, J.E.S., Viesten, K., Landa Mata, I., Farstad, E., Hopkins, D. & Bian, Y. (2024). Healthy persuasion: A values-based messaging approach to air travel decision-making. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. OnlineFirst.
de Vos, J., Hopkins, D., Schwanen, T. & Hickman, R. (2024). Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes, Global Environmental Change, 88, 102908.
Huwe, V., Hopkins, D. & Mattioli, G. (2024). Aviation exceptionalism, fossil fuels and the state, Review of International Political Economy, 31:1, 76-100.
Hopkins, D. (2024) Towards Just Geographies of Academic Mobilities, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographers, 23:4. Special Issue: Climate Action Task Force 2023 Plenary Lecture and Forum. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v23i4.2466
Farstad, E., Mehmetoglu, M., Landa-Mata, I., Higham, J.E.S., Hopkins, D. & Steen Jacobsen, J.K. (2024). Recasting sustainable summer holidaying: Scripts, time experiences, freedom, place change and environmental imprints, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 33:3, 395-415.
Smith, M., Cavadino, A., Zhang, Y., McGlashan Fainu, H., Zhao, J., Morton, S., Hopkins, D., Carr, H., Clark, T.C. (2024). Socio-environmental factors associated with shifts in children’s travel mode between 6 and 8 years, Journal of Transport & Health, 36, 101811.
Hopkins, D. Landa-Mata, I., Jacobsen, J.K.S., Farstad, E. & Higham, J.E.S. (2024). Imagining post-fossil mobilities with Norwegian tourists, Social & Cultural Geography, 25:9, 1395-1416.
Smith, M., Zhang, Y., McGlashan, H., Cavadino, A., Zhao, J., Morton, S., Hopkins, D., Carr, H., Clark, T.C. (2024). Socio-environmental factors associated with active school travel in children at ages 6 and 8 years, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 23, 101026
Hopkins, D., Gossling, S., Cohen, S., Hana, P. & Higham, J.E.S. (2023). Aeromasculinities and the Fallacy of Sustainable Aviation, Energy Research & Social Science, 106, 103319.
Hopkins, D. & Schwanen, T. (2023). Sociotechnical expectations of vehicle automation in the UK trucking sector, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 196, 122863.
Hopkins, D. & Schwanen, T. (2023). The Expected Speed and Impacts of Vehicle Automation in Passenger and Freight Transport: A Dissensus Delphi Study among UK Professionals, Research in Transportation Business and Management. 100973.
Hopkins, D. & Davidson A.C. (2023). Stories of the gendered mobile work of English lorry driving, Gender Place and Culture, 30:10, 1372-1392. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2122946
Mandic, S., Sandretto, S., Hopkins, D., Wilson, G., Kidd, G. & Bengoechea, E.G. (2023) School choice, distance to school and travel to school patterns among adolescents, Journal of Transport and Health, 33, 101704.
Martiskainen, M., Hopkins, D., Torres Contreras G.A., Jenkins, K., Mattioli, G., Simcock, N., Lacey Barnacle, M. (2023). Eating, heating or taking the bus? Lived experiences at the intersection of energy and transport poverty, Global Environmental Change, 82, 102728.
Jacobsen, J.K.S., Farstad, E., Landa Mata, I. Higham, J.E.S. & Hopkins, D. (2023). Travel discontinuities, enforced holidaying-at-home and alternative leisure travel futures after Covid-19, Tourism Geographies, 25: 2-3, 615-633.
Mandic, S., Bengoechea, E.G., Hopkins, D., et al. (2023). Examining the transport to school patterns of New Zealand adolescents by home-to-school distance and settlement types, Journal of Transport & Health, 30, 101585.
Akyelken, N. & Hopkins, D. (2022). Researching mobility in times of immobility, Transport Reviews, 43:1, 1-4.
Higham, J.E.S., Loehr, J., Hopkins, D., Becken, S. & Stovall, W. (2022). Climate science and tourism policy in Australasia: Deficiencies in science-policy translation. Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
Calverley, J., Hopkins, D., García Bengoechea, E., Coppell, K., Spence, J.C. & Mandic, S. (2022, accepted September 2022). Active travel in rural New Zealand: A study of rural adolescents’ perceptions of walking and cycling to school, Active Travel Studies, 2:1.
Scheer, A. Schwarz, M. Hopkins, D. & Caldecott, B. (2022). Whose jobs face transition risk in Alberta? Understanding sectoral employment precarity in an oil-rich Canadian province, Climate Policy, 22:8, 1016-1032.
Hopkins, D. & Schwanen, T. (2022). Recruiting research participants for transport research: Reflections from studies on autonomous vehicles in the UK, Journal of Transport Geography, 102, 103377. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103377
Hopkins, D. (2022). Buffering as everyday logistical labour, Roadsides, 007: Logistics, 51-58. DOI: 10.26034/roadsides-202200708. Available at: https://roadsides.net/hopkins-007/
Higham, J.E.S., Hanna, P. Peeters, P., Hopkins, D., Cohen, S., Gossling, S. & Cocolas, N. (2022). Reconfiguring aviation for a climate-safe future: Are airlines sending the wrong message? Journal of Travel Research, 61:6, 1458–1473.
Cohen, S., Liu, H., Hanna, P., Hopkins, D., Higham, J.E.S., Gossling, S. (2022). The Rich Kids of Instagram: Luxury travel, transport modes and desire, Journal of Travel Research, 61:7, 1479 1494. DOI: 10.1177/00472875211037748
McCurdy, A., Stearns, J. A., Rhodes, R.E., Hopkins, D., Mummery, K. & Spence. JC. (2022). Relationships Between Physical Activity, Boredom Proneness, and Subjective Well-Being Among U.K. Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 44:3, 189–197.
Mandic, S., Garcia Bengoechea, E., Hopkins, D., Coppell, K., & Spence, J.C. (2022). Adolescents’ perceptions of walking and cycling to school differ based on how far they live from school, Journal of Transport & Health, 24, 101316.
Hopkins, D. & Schwanen, T. (2021). Talking about automated vehicles: What do levels of automation do? Technology in Society, 64, 101488.
Hopkins, D., García Bengoechea, E., & Mandic, S. (2021) Adolescents and their aspirations for car based transport, Transportation, 48:1, 67-93.
Hopkins, D. (2021). Crises and sustainable tourism, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 29:9, 1423-1435.
Martiskainen, M., Jenkins, K.E.H., Bouzarovski, S., Hopkins, D., Mattioli, G., Lacey-Barnacle, M. (2021). A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 41, 110-112
Simcock, N., Jenkins, K., Lacey-Barnacle, M., Martiskainen, M., Mattioli, G. & Hopkins, D. (2021). Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north, Energy Research and Social Science, 102351.
Martiskainen, M., Sovacool, B.K., Lacey-Barnacle, M., Hopkins, D., Jenkins, K.E.H., Simcock, N., Mattioli, G. & Bouzarovski, S. (2021). New dimensions of vulnerability to energy and transport poverty, Joule, 5:1, 3-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2020.11.016
Spence, J. C., Rhodes, R. E., McCurdy, A., Mangan, A., Hopkins, D. & Mummery, W. K. (2021). Determinants of physical activity among adults in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: The DUK-COVID study, British Journal of Health Psychology, 26:2, 588-608.
Thomopoulos, N., Cohen, S., Hopkins, D., Kimber, S. & Siegel, L. (2021). All work and no play? Autonomous vehicles in non-commuting journeys. Transport Reviews, 41:4, 456-477.
Hopkins, D. (2020). Sustainable mobility at the interface of transport and tourism, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 28:2, 129-143.
Hopkins, D., Kester, J. Meelen, T. & Schwanen, T. (2020). Not more but different: A comment on the transitions research agenda, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 4-6.
Klöwer, M., Hopkins, D., Higham, J.E.S. & Allen, M. (2020). An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19, Nature, 583, 356-360.
Sovacool, B., Shoval, N., Hopkins, D., Jenkins, K., Hielscher, S., Goldthau, A. & Brossmann, B. (2020). Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future, Social Studies of Science. 50:4, 642-679.
Cohen, T., Stilgoe, J., Stares, S., Akeyelken, N., Cavoli, C., Day, J., Dickinson, J., Fors, V., Hopkins, D., Lyons, G., Marres, N., Newman, J., Reardon, L., Sipe, N., Tennant, C., Wadud, Z. & Wigley, E. (2020). A constructive role for social science in the development of automated vehicles, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspective, 6, 100133.
Mandic, S., Ikeda, E., Stewart, T., Garrett, N., Hopkins, D., Mindell, J.S., Tautolo, E.S., Smith, M. (2020). Sociodemographic and Built Environment Associates of Travel to School by Car among New Zealand Adolescents: Meta-Analysis, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17: 23, 9138. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17239138.
Cohen, S., Stienmetz, J., Hanna, P., Humbracht, M. & Hopkins, D. (2020). Shadowcasting tourism knowledge through media: Self-driving sex cars Annals of Tourism Research, 85, 103061.
Mindell, J., Ergler, C., Hopkins, D. & Mandic, S. (2020). Barriers and facilitators for adolescent use of public buses to school, Travel Behaviour and Society, 22, 48-58.