Cycling Life Histories – cycle BOOM http://www.cycleboom.org Design for lifelong health and wellbeing Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 Rad Aufschwung: cycle BOOM goes (back) to Germany (via Hereford) http://www.cycleboom.org/rad-aufschwung-cycle-boom-goes-back-germany-via-hereford/ http://www.cycleboom.org/rad-aufschwung-cycle-boom-goes-back-germany-via-hereford/#respond Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:26:48 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1844 In the past two months I have had some time out from analysing cycle BOOM data to attend two conferences and present emerging findings from the study. When you are immersed in large volumes of data, it can be a useful reality check to step away and give some thought to the audiences of research... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/rad-aufschwung-cycle-boom-goes-back-germany-via-hereford/feed/ 0 Tales from the Field http://www.cycleboom.org/tales-from-the-field/ http://www.cycleboom.org/tales-from-the-field/#respond Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:49:25 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1595 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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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/tales-from-the-field/feed/ 0 A life of cycling in Oxford http://www.cycleboom.org/life-cycling-oxford/ http://www.cycleboom.org/life-cycling-oxford/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:54:56 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1062 by Kathryn Johnson, cycle BOOM participant. Having cycled from a very young age (see photo below), I wanted to join the cycle BOOM project as it sounded  a worthwhile  way of encouraging other people to cycle – whatever their age. Photo of me aged about 10 months on my first tricycle Cycling has been a... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/life-cycling-oxford/feed/ 1 Piloting Cycling Life History Interviews http://www.cycleboom.org/piloting-cycling-life-history-interviews/ http://www.cycleboom.org/piloting-cycling-life-history-interviews/#respond Tue, 27 May 2014 16:25:59 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=974 “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” Kierkegaard. A key aim of the cycle BOOM study is to understand how cycling in mid and later life relates to earlier experiences of cycling and the physical, social and cultural settings within which cycling took place (or did not take place) over... [Read More]

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