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]
Tales from the Field
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]
A life of cycling in Oxford
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]
Piloting Cycling Life History Interviews
“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]
