Lake Sagaris

BFA, MSc., PhD Urban-Regional planning (University of Toronto, Canada)

Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Lake Sagaris is an internationally recognized expert on walking and cycle-inclusive urban planning, civil society development, and participatory planning within urban-regional governance. She works through cross-disciplinary and university-community-government collaborations within a framework of participatory action research. 

In recent years she has specialized in gender and health, within mobility justice, and transport system relevance to preventing and dismantling crime.

With her Laboratory for Social Change and the UK-based Transport&Health Science Group/Movisal, she works closely with leading citizen organizations to combine evidence and experiential knowledge.

HONORARY MEMBER, FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UK, 2024.

REMARKABLE WOMAN OF TRANSPORT /MUJER NOTABLE DE TRANSPORTE 2019 https://transformative-mobility.org/assets/publications/2019_RemarkableWomeninTransport_Series1.pdf

RECIPIENT UNITED NATIONS WORLD BICYCLE DAY AWARD, 2022, For leadership and excellence in promoting global cycling for all

Selected publications or texts

Sagaris, L., & Palacios, R. (2024). Walking for Joy? Addressing cultural trauma to catalyze sustainable mobility. Energy Research & Social Science. 

Sagaris, L., & Baker, L. (2024). New challenges arise from consolidation of gender, health and transport research. Journal of Transport & Health, 39, 101902. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101902 

Sagaris, L., Woodcock, A., & Baker, L. (2024). Gender, transport, and health: Emerging trends and gaps in global. In J. Mindell & S. Watkins (Eds.), Health on the Move, 3rd edition. Elsevier. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.atpp.2023.11.007 

Tironi, M., L. Sagaris, M. Moraga Zárate and R. Forray Claps (2024). “Repensando “Calles completas”: para descolonizar los conocimientos urbanos.” Ciudad y Territorio Estudios Territoriales (CYTET). https://doi.org/10.37230/CyTET.2024.220.12

Sagaris L, Peñafiel J, Orellana R, Guajardo, M (2023). Participatory pedagogies for sustainability: Action Research to enhance Engineering education. Educational Action Research journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2023.2240858

Fuenzalida J, Veccio G, Sagaris L, Muñoz J (2023). Improving participation for sustainable transport: Use of a PPGIS for supporting the discussion of a BRT project in Santiago de Chile. Journal of Planning Education and Research. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X231186969

Sagaris, L y Tiznado-Aitken, I (2023). New horizons for sustainable transport planning: An analysis of seven years of gender-related research in Chile, International Journal of Transport & Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101544

Tiznado-Aitken, Ignacio, Jorge Fuenzalida-Izquierdo, Lake Sagaris and Rodrigo Mora (2021). Using the five Ws to explore bikeshare equity in Santiago, Chile. Journal of Transport Geography 97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103210.

Sagaris, L. (2021). An analysis of the role of cycling in sustainable urban mobility. Transport Reviews, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2021.1906351

Selected speaking engagements

1. Keynote speaker, Bogotá, annual meeting World Society for Transport and Land Use Research, WSTLUR, 19 June 2024.
2. Plenary presentation, Walking for Joy? During the Global Workshop on on Walking for Transportation, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, Cardiff, Gales, sobre investigación en la caminata.
3. Keynote speaker launching 31 Agosto 2024, and prologue author, Osiac, LR., Crespo, F. (2024) Aproximaciones Transdisciplinarias sobre Actividad Física: Construcción de Posiciones y Propuestas. Grupo Transdisciplinario para la Obesidad de Poblaciones (GTOP) (2024). Position Paper “Aproximaciones transdisciplinarias sobre actividad física: construcción de posiciones y propuestas”. Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile. 
4. Chair, International Transport Forum (OECD) roundtable on Increasing Walking and Cycling. https://www.itf-oecd.org/node/27723
5. Plenary Speaker, Greening Transportation, ITF Global Summit, 2024.

Awards and recognitions

• 2024 Honorario Member, UK Faculty of Public Health
• 2022 World Bicycle Day Award, United Nations. 3 June 2022.
• Remarkable Woman in Transport, GIZ-ITDP-Otros, https://transformative-mobility.org/assets/publications/2019_RemarkableWomeninTransport_Series1.pdf
• Social Science and Research Council of Canada Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship (2009-2011) for PhD studies, exploring the interrelationships between active citizenship, transport (especially walking and cycling), and how they can build democratic governance for sustainability.
• Global Award for Cycling Promotion (Danish Cycling Embassy, Velo-City 2010).
• Mujer Destacado 2008, participación ciudadana (Woman of the Year, citizen participation), awarded by a jury composed of the national minister of women’s affairs, Lo Castillo publishing, Fundación Prohumana, Comunidad Mujer, a representative of the Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, and Chilectra, Chile’s national electrical distribution firm.
• Designed and coordinated the project Citizen Management of Pío Nono and the Recovery of the Bellavista neighbourhood, which received the 2009 Award for Territorial Management, ChileTerritorio, granted by a jury composed of representatives from the Foundation for Overcoming Poverty, the national ministry responsible for non-profit organizations, the Interamerican Development Bank, the Avina Foundation, the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Territorial and Economic Development and Employment, Red Sinergia Regional, ILPES/ECLAC, GTZ (German cooperation agency), Corporation for Innovation in Citizenship, Undersecretary of State for Regional and Administrative Development.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2005-2006) to complete Master of Science degree in Planning and Community Development. Other academic awards include: McPherson Award for doctoral students (2008), Doctoral Completion Award (2012), School of Graduate Studies Travel Award (2012), and School of Graduate Studies Conference Award (2012).
• Honorary Architect, Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile, professional association of architects, 2004.
• Convenio Andrés Bello Award (2002), a Latin American award received for the community’s defence, led by the Neighbourhood Association #13 Mario Baeza, of the Bellavista neighbourhood’s heritage, threatened by an urban highway project (Costanera Norte).
• Fellow of Ashoka, international fellowship of 1,500 social entrepreneurs, October 2005
• Award for Innovation in Citizenship, Chile’s National Foundation for Overcoming Poverty, the Ford Foundation, and the University of Chile’s Public Policies Institute. Designed and supervised implementation of the project “Get Moving for your City”, headed by Rodrigo Quijada, 2003.
• Award for Innovation in Citizenship, Chile’s National Foundation for Overcoming Poverty, the Ford Foundation, and the University of Chile’s Public Policies Institute. Designed and supervised implementation of the project “Recycle to Live Better”, headed by Donatella Fuccaro, 2001.
• Articles and other writing have also received recognition and awards, including grants from the Arts Council of Ontario, and three times from the Canada Council for the Arts (1992, 1996, 2004-2005). After the First Death, by Sagaris, was one of five non-fiction books shortlisted for  Canada’s highest literary prize, the Governor General’s Award, 1996.