In this month’s blog, Louise-Ann Leyland, post-doctoral researcher on the cycle BOOM project writes about her recent travels to Brisbane, Australia, to present the findings from the cycle BOOM Wellbeing and Cognition Trials at the prestigious International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP). The Conference was a global forum at which all those involved… [Read More]
Archives for 2016
Positive Spin
Cycling for people with dementia may not immediately appear an obvious idea but having heard about the Positive Spin programme run by Cycle Training UK I was keen to find out more. I arrived in North London in late June, with the weather reflecting the post-Brexit politicking down the hill in Westminster, full of turbulence… [Read More]
Rad Aufschwung: cycle BOOM goes (back) to Germany (via Hereford)
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]
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
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]
Tales from Taipei: exploring the evolution of cycling
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]
