Charles Musselwhite

He has co-edited books on mobile e-health, transport and travel in later life, physical activity in later life and geographies of transport in later life. In 2021 he published Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population which examines how public spaces can be designed to help elderly people stay mobile especially as pedestrians.

He was a lecturer of traffic and transport psychology at the Centre for Transport & Society at University West of England from 2006 to 2013, and associate professor in gerontology at the Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University, between 2013 and 2021. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Transport and Health. His research focuses on environmental gerontology, environment and health in later stages of life, giving-up driving, age friendly neighbourhoods and communities, and social aspects of transport and mobility.

He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom and educated at Bay House School, Gosport, Hampshire, followed by St Vincent Sixth Form College, Gosport, Hampshire. He went on to read Psychology at University of Southampton (BSc, Psychology, 1998) before completing a PhD in the Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton (PhD, 2004) examining attitudes to car driver behaviour.

Charles Brian Alexander Musselwhite (born 16 June 1975) is Professor of Psychology at Aberystwyth University.