Tim Jones – cycle BOOM

Update post cycle BOOM

Tim Jones — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:41:58 +0000

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]

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Velomobile Methods: Investigation | Interrogation | Interpretation

Tim Jones — Tue, 31 May 2016 10:05:22 +0000

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]

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Life Cycle UK’s Over 55’s Cycling Project

Tim Jones — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:40:57 +0000

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]

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

Tim Jones — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:09:59 +0000

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]

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Tales from the Field

Tim Jones — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:49:25 +0000

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]

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

Tim Jones — Fri, 29 May 2015 11:46:24 +0000

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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A velo-mobile future for all without developing ‘affective capacities’

Tim Jones — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:38:36 +0000

Back in early November 2014 I was given the opportunity to present a paper at the 10th Anniversary Cosmobilities Conference ‘Networked Urban Mobilities’. I took part in an interesting session ‘Imaginaries of Velomobility’ which included talks broadly oriented around exploring the ‘cultures of cycling’ in different social and geographical contexts and how these might evolve.... [Read More]

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The Vision: Increasing the Visibility of Older Cycling

Tim Jones — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:41:27 +0000

We’re afraid that we have run out of time to write a full blog for December, but they say, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. So instead we sign out of 2014 with a video and a selection of photos taken during our travels in recent years in the Netherlands (Houten and Groningen) and Sweden... [Read More]

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In the mix to understand and represent older cycling

Tim Jones — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:33:26 +0000

The cycle BOOM study is using a wide range of approaches and data to produce a rich and integrated understanding of older people’s cycling. Particular attention is being given to the physical, social and technological circumstances in which older cycling is situated and the significance of cycling for older people’s health and wellbeing. It is... [Read More]

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cycle BOOM: Achievements over the first six months

Tim Jones — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:40:53 +0000

As we approach the first six months of the cycle BOOM project I thought it would be useful to look back at the progress we have made so far. Firstly, I must say that as Principal Investigator on the project I feel very fortunate to be working alongside such a diverse, enthusiastic and multi-skilled team.... [Read More]

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