mw. dr. A.A. (Anna) Nikolaeva

Anna Nikolaeva is a postdoctoral researcher in the project Smart Cycling Futures at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University.

Her primary focus is relationship between cities and mobilities.

In 2014 she defended the PhD thesis on Amsterdam Airport Schiphol as a multifunctional public space. Before joining UvA and UU she conducted research and taught at Royal Holloway, University of London and VU University Amsterdam, and was a visiting scholar at City University of New York. At Royal Holloway she worked in the global comparative project on futures of mobility Living in the Mobility Transitions  in a team lead by Tim Cresswell and Peter Adey.

In her current research she focuses primarily on how smart cycling changes the meaning, the experience and governance of cycling in cities.

By smart cycling she understands ICT and IoT (internet of things) technologies used to enhance the experience of cycling, make it safer, promote it or collect data on cycling practices. At the moment she researchers the impact of smart technology on collecting data on cycling for cycling planning, policy and advocacy. 

Finally, she conducts research on living labs and experiments as methods of governing transitions through participating in ongoing living labs in Amsterdam and Utrecht.

Member of Urban Cycling Institute and Centre for Urban Studies

Organiser of the Cities & Mobilities Seminar series 

Recent papers:

Nikolaeva, A., Adey, P., Cresswell, T., Lee, J. Y., Nóvoa, A., & Temenos, C. (2019). Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12287

Temenos, C., Nikolaeva, A., Schwanen, T., Cresswell, T., Sengers, F., Watson, M., & Sheller, M. (2017).  Theorizing Mobility Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, Transfers, 7(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2017.070109

Nikolaeva, A. (2017) “Spoiled”, “Bored”, “Irritated” and “Nervous”: The Transformations of a Mobile Subject in Airport Design Discourse. In Spinney, J., Reimer S. & P. Pinch (eds.), Mobilising Design. Routledge.

Open access:

Nikolaeva, A., Adey, P., Cresswell, T., Lee, J. Y., Nóvoa, A., & Temenos, C. (2019). Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12287

te Brömmelstroet, M. C. G., Nikolaeva, A., Chan, C., Glaser, M. A., & Nicolaisen, M. (2017). Traveling together alone and alone together: Mobility and potential exposure to diversity. Applied Mobilities 2(1), 113-129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23800127.2017.1283122