This month Justin Spinney reflects on his visit to the Velo-City Global 2016 Conference, Taipei. Recently I enlarged my carbon footprint further (but all that cycling makes up for it, right?) by attending Velo-City Global in Taipei. As you’d expect from a cycling conference, there were many success stories from around the world reporting ‘best practice’… [Read More]
The ‘Teardrop’ Explodes?*
In an earlier blog we wrote about how researchers on the cycle BOOM team would need to recognise their positionality in relation to both the research setting and our research participants. That is, we need to accept and be transparent about our acknowledged interest in developing more supportive environments for cycling but not to let this… [Read More]
Moving Emotions: Towards Harmonious and Happy Cycling Cities
“The January Blog is a little later than planned because the team has been fully occupied with data analysis – including data visualisation as Carl Mann (University of Cardiff) explains here.” Throughout 2015, the cycle BOOM project collected a second wave of data from the local residents of Cardiff and Reading. We are interested in… [Read More]
Wrapping up a data packed 2015!
It’s been a busy year for the cycle BOOM team. In 2015, we completed almost all of our fieldwork with just a few remaining participants to recruit for our cycling and wellbeing trials. In the early part of 2016, we will focus on making sense of the information and data that has been accumulated over the… [Read More]
Towards a Policy Agenda to Support Cycling Among Older Adults
In the UK, the drive to boost cycling numbers is an important part of the policy agenda. There are lots of reasons for this, including moves to encourage people to use more sustainable modes of transport, and concerns about rising levels of obesity. Moreover, as the population ages, there is growing pressure upon public services,… [Read More]
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]
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