Ben Spencer – 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 Positive Spin http://www.cycleboom.org/positive-spin/ http://www.cycleboom.org/positive-spin/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:40:52 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1877 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]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/positive-spin/feed/ 0 The ‘Teardrop’ Explodes?* http://www.cycleboom.org/the-teardrop-explodes/ http://www.cycleboom.org/the-teardrop-explodes/#respond Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:20:00 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1718 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]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/the-teardrop-explodes/feed/ 0 School’s outside for summer http://www.cycleboom.org/schools-outside-for-summer/ http://www.cycleboom.org/schools-outside-for-summer/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:17:22 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1481 The cycle BOOM project is about how our environment and technologies work together to help or hinder peoples’ mobility. Tim Jones and I have been exploring these issues with Year 9 and 10 Design and Technology students from our neighbouring Cheney School. The first challenge for the students was to re-design the environment of east Oxford’s... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/schools-outside-for-summer/feed/ 0 Amsterdam: sociable cycling, street ballet… and parking problems http://www.cycleboom.org/amsterdam-sociable-cycling-street-ballet-and-parking-problems/ http://www.cycleboom.org/amsterdam-sociable-cycling-street-ballet-and-parking-problems/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:14:40 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1351 At the beginning of March I had the opportunity to return to the Netherlands for the first time in over 20 years. I accompanied an Urban Design field trip organised by the Department of Planning at Oxford Brookes University and had the chance to observe the many people using cycles in Amsterdam – and to... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/amsterdam-sociable-cycling-street-ballet-and-parking-problems/feed/ 2 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 But[tocks]…what exactly are cities for? http://www.cycleboom.org/buttocks-exactly-cities-2/ http://www.cycleboom.org/buttocks-exactly-cities-2/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:04:12 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=707 Smoking cigarettes is detrimental to human cells. Not only those you might expect in the mouth and throat but also the skin on your buttocks. I learned this at the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing (LLHW) conference hosted by University College London (6-8 November 2013). It covered a huge variety of topics from the fields of... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/buttocks-exactly-cities-2/feed/ 0 What does “the ageing research showcase of the decade” tell us? http://www.cycleboom.org/what-does-the-ageing-research-showcase-of-the-decade-tell-us/ http://www.cycleboom.org/what-does-the-ageing-research-showcase-of-the-decade-tell-us/#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:53:22 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=145 I was lucky enough to get a place at the massively over-subscribed New Dynamics of Ageing conference in London on 21st October 2013. This was the culmination of the biggest research project on ageing in Europe, ever. So how does the £21 million, from five UK research councils, invested in 35 projects over eight years... [Read More]

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