Staff Profile

Dr Gustav Bösehans is a Sustainable Transport Researcher with an Environmental Psychology background. Gustav completed both his undergraduate and Master's degree at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Between 2014 to 2018, he was employed as a PhD researcher at the University of Bath in the domain of Environmental and Transport Psychology before being awarded his degree in July 2018. Before joining Newcastle University, Gustav worked as a Junior Researcher at the independent research charity Institute for Methods Innovation (IMI) for 18 months. Currently, Gustav is working as a Research Associate on the EU-funded eHUBs project focused on shared electric mobility hubs. His broader research interests include, but are not limited to, electric shared mobility, behaviour change, and traveller segmentation.

Gustav is currently working as a Research Associate on the EU-funded (Interreg NWE) eHUBS research project focusing on future shared mobility options.

To find out more about the project, please visit:

https://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/ehubs-smart-shared-green-mobility-hubs/

Gustav regularly supervises MSc and/or PhD students and is actively involved in the marking of student dissertations.

• Bösehans G, Bell M, Thorpe N, Liao F, Correia G, Dissanayake D. eHUBs—Identifying the potential early and late adopters of shared electric mobility hubs. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 2021, Epub ahead of print.
• Bösehans G, Bolderdijk JW, Wan J. Pay more, fly more? Examining the potential guilt-reducing and flight-encouraging effect of an integrated carbon offset. Journal of Environmental Psychology 2020, 71, 101469.
• Bösehans G, Walker I. My sustainable city — Exploring lay people’s conception of sustainable urban design. The Social Science Journal 2019, 59(1), 85-101.
• Bösehans G, Walker I. Do supra-modal traveller types exist? A travel behaviour market segmentation using Goal framing theory. Transportation 2018, 1-31.
• Bösehans G, Massola GM. Commuter cyclists’ risk perceptions and behaviour in the city of São Paulo. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 2018, 58, 414-430.
• Bösehans G, Walker I. ‘Daily Drags’ and ‘Wannabe Walkers’ – Identifying dissatisfied public transport users who might travel more actively and sustainably. Journal of Transport & Health 2016, 3(3), 395-403.