Peter Merriman is Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK. He is a cultural and historical geographer, and leading scholar focussing on the cultural history of mobility and transport. He has authored and edited over 100 publications, and has undertaken extensive research on the cultural history of the road and motoring in Britain. He has served as an Associate Editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Mobilities, Transfers, Applied Mobilities, Cultural Geographies and Mobility Humanities. He has authored three books – Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England’s M1 Motorway (Blackwell, 2007), Mobility, Space and Culture (Routledge, 2012) and Space (Routledge, 2022) – and edited five journal special issues and five books. His edited and co-edited collections are Empire and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century (MUP Studies in Imperialism, 2020), Mobility and the Humanities (Routledge, 2018, Korean translation 2019), The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2014), Geographies of Mobilities (Ashgate/Routledge, 2011), and the four-volume major reference work Space – Critical Concepts in Geography (Routledge, 2016).