K2 seminar: Placing Workers on the Mobility Agenda
This seminar brings together research on public transport and delivery workers, union organising, technological change, and worker-passenger relations to explore questions of power, agency, and working conditions in contemporary transport systems.
The seminar is organised by the BUSSA project team and gathers presenters joining from several universities and research organisations in Sweden and beyond. The presentations will be followed by an open discussion.
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who may be interested.
If you wish to attend or have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact chiara.vitrano@vti.se
Programme:
27 August 2026, 10:00-12:30
Location: VTI/K2 Office (Lounge), Bruksgatan 8, Lund
(Ring VTI/K2 at the entrance facing the railway tracks. The office is on the 5th floor)
Welcome and Introduction
Come together. Co-conceptualizing workers and passengers in public transportation research
Karin Winter – Lund University and K2
Jens Portinson Hylander – VTI and K2
‘Don’t be afraid of bosses, they should be afraid of us’: a power-resource analysis of union organising on Swedish trains
Paula Mulinari – Malmö University
Andrea Iossa – Kristianstad University
Recalibrating temporal demands: time and power in micromobility-based delivery work
Annika Otto – VTI, Lund University and K2
Chiara Vitrano – VTI and K2
Thrown under the bus? Unpacking the impact of technology- and policy-related changes on working conditions in Hong Kong’s bus and minibus services
Wojciech Kębłowski – The University of Hong Kong, Department of Urban Planning and Design
BUSSA – Understanding and improving working conditions and agency for bus drivers: a study of emerging and contested spatiotemporalities of work in public transport in Sweden
Chiara Vitrano – VTI and K2
Open discussion