Internship opportunity:
building experience on Walking for Transport
The Walking Cities Lab invites applications for three internship positions, September to December 2026, open to recent Master's graduates and postgraduate students in the UK completing their studies in the 2025/26 cohort. Interns gain certified experience, mentorship and a network within the walking research and practice community.
Walking fot Transport
Make Walking
a Global Priority
A new global agenda to establish walking as a safe, accessible and enjoyable mode of transport for all.
Reframing how cities move, who they serve, and how they sustain life.
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Cities depend on walking. But they are not designed for it.
Across the world, millions of people rely on walking every day. Yet urban systems continue to overlook it.
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Infrastructure is fragmented
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Safety is not guaranteed
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Inequality shapes who can walk, where, and how
Walking is essential, and it remains one of the most under-resourced parts of city life.
Walking is the most equitable mode of transport there is. It asks for no vehicle, no licence and no income threshold, only a safe, comfortable and accessible path.
A new way of understanding walking
Walking for Transport (W4T) reframes walking as a central, non-negotiable component of urban life by highlighting its strategic role in transforming unwalkable cities, strengthening climate adaptation, building caring cities, improving governance and enabling effective implementation.
Unwalkable cities
Climate Resilience
Caring cities
Governance
Implementation
W4T addresses how cities function, and for whom.
This agenda did not emerge in isolation.
It is the result of years of research, collaboration, capacity building and grounded experimentation.
Our
origin
Since 2019, we have been building a new understanding of walking in cities through applied research, co-production and engagement with communities and institutions. We approach it as a lived, complex and systemic reality.
To make walking a global priority emerges from this work. It is the consolidation of knowledge, practice, partnerships and evidence generated by the Lab.
“The Lab builds the agenda, through evidence, practice and partnership.”
Co-creating actionable knowledge
The Walking Cities Lab is a platform where knowledge, capacity building and communities of learning come together to connect lived experience, policy and long-term transformation.
Knowledge
co-production:
Working with communities to understand lived experiences.
Grounding knowledge in reality
Policy engagement and community building:
Connecting knowledge with decision-making.
Translating insights into action
Capacity building
Training a new generation of researchers and practitioners.
Ensuring long-term impact
Developed and actioned in
real-world contexts
From Accra to Bogotá, from Maputo to Bangkok, the WCL works across diverse urban realities. Each context generates new insights.Each intervention strengthens the global agenda.
Shifting the narrative and influencing global urban policy
The work of the Lab is contributing to:
Consolidating an incubator to generate knowledge and action for W4T
Creating leadership and skills to make walking a priority
Establishing a growing community of learning and practice to influence policy
Be part of the movement
W4T is becoming a global agenda. And it continues to evolve through collaboration.Different actors, different roles: one shared transformation.
The future of walking is ours to build, together.
