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Update post cycle BOOM

February 13, 2017 By Tim Jones Leave a Comment Filed Under: Uncategorized

Welcome back to the cycle BOOM blog. After a busy crescendo to the project, with our conferences in London and Manchester to launch our findings and recommendations in September 2016, we bring you up to date with recent developments and future plans. The final conferences were successful in bringing together a total of more than… [Read More]

Velomobile Methods: Investigation | Interrogation | Interpretation

May 31, 2016 By Tim Jones Leave a Comment Filed Under: Methods, Mobile interviewing/go-alongs

Velomobile Methods: Investigation | Interrogation | Interpretation

The use of mobile methods has been an important component of the cycle BOOM study as described in previous blog posts.  On 11 May 2016, cycle BOOM researchers, Tim Jones and Justin Spinney, hosted a workshop at Oxford Brookes University on ‘Velomobile Methods: Investigation, Interrogation Interpretation’. This was an opportunity to bring together an audience interested… [Read More]

Life Cycle UK’s Over 55’s Cycling Project

April 27, 2016 By Tim Jones 1 Comment Filed Under: Cycling and Wellbeing, cycling projects

Life Cycle UK’s Over 55’s Cycling Project

This month, Poppy Brett, CEO of Life Cycle UK based in Bristol, writes about the organisation’s ‘Over 55’s’ social cycling project to support older cycling and wellbeing. Poppy is also a member of the cycle BOOM Stakeholder Advisory Group. Life Cycle’s mission is to support more people to get cycling, by helping them overcome the barriers that… [Read More]

Cycling in Harmony: Intergenerational Contact Zones (ICZs) and Cycling

October 30, 2015 By Tim Jones Leave a Comment Filed Under: Uncategorized

Cycling in Harmony: Intergenerational Contact Zones (ICZs) and Cycling

In a previous blog, I wrote about the current state of cycling in the UK drawing largely upon a previous large-scale study I was involved with – Understanding Walking and Cycling. I highlighted that cycling in most UK cities tends to be dominated by young, male, white, ‘hardened’ cyclists – what I called the ‘velomobile… [Read More]

Tales from the Field

September 30, 2015 By Tim Jones Leave a Comment Filed Under: Cycling Life Histories, Methods, Mobile interviewing/go-alongs, Progress

Tales from the Field

This month, as the cycle BOOM project moves towards completing data collection, Heather Jones (Research Associate, UWE) reflects on her research in the Bristol area and provides some snapshots of her participants. Since May 2014 I have been working with a diverse range of people age 50 and over in the Bristol area as part of our… [Read More]

Seminar Report | Design for Wellbeing: Innovative research methods for understanding older people’s everyday mobility | Oxford Brookes University | 21 April 2015

May 29, 2015 By Tim Jones Leave a Comment Filed Under: Methods, Seminar

Seminar Report | Design for Wellbeing: Innovative research methods for understanding older people’s everyday mobility | Oxford Brookes University | 21 April 2015

In April cycle BOOM hosted a British Society for Gerontology sponsored seminar Design for Wellbeing: Innovative research methods for understanding older people’s everyday mobility at Oxford Brookes which was attended by around 50 people. The seminar brought together the seven projects funded under the UK Research Councils’ Lifelong Health and Wellbeing (LLHW) ageing research programme. The… [Read More]

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