Charles Musselwhite is Professor of Psychology, with a Chair in the Psychology Department at Aberystwyth University and is Head of the Psychology Department. His research covers two main topics (1) transport and health, including the social aspects of transport and mobility and; (2) environmental gerontology, examining relationships between environment and health in later stages of life, including road user safety, giving-up driving and creating age friendly neighbourhoods and communities.
He is Principal Investigator and co-Director of two Welsh Government funded projects, the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR) project and the Transport and Health Integrated Research Network (THINK). He is also Co-Director the University’s Research Centre for Transport and Mobility (CeTrAM). He is incoming Chair for the UK wide Universities’ Transport Study Group from June 2025. He is also a board member of the Transport and Health Science Group. He is Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier’s Journal of Transport & Health , Section Editor for Cogent Gerontology and on the editorial board for Age Cymru’s EnvisAGE and Elsevier’s Research in Transportation Business & Management and Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research journals. He recently been made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.