He is currently a Professor of Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, where he is co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Transport and Mobility (CeTraM) (with Charles Musselwhite),[2] which was launched by Welsh Deputy Minister for Climate Change Lee Waters in 2022.
[8] Merriman’s early work was grounded in the cultural landscape traditions associated with David Matless and Stephen Daniels at the University of Nottingham, where he undertook his undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
[9] The book approached the landscapes of roads as dynamic entities, mobilising theoretical ideas from the new mobilities paradigm and non-representational theory to understand how people inhabited the spaces of the motorway in the late 1950s and 1960s.
[10] Merriman has made notable contributions to the multi-disciplinary field of mobilities, working with scholars such as Tim Cresswell, Peter Adey, David Bissell, John Urry, and Mimi Sheller.
[14] This advanced text provided a critical analysis of how space has been theorised in Western thought, from traditions of mathematics, physics and philosophy, through to contemporary thinking in the social sciences and humanities.