Project Outreach – cycle BOOM

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle”

Nicholas Beale — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 09:56:35 +0000

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]

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Rad Aufschwung: cycle BOOM goes (back) to Germany (via Hereford)

Heather Jones — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:26:48 +0000

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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School’s outside for summer

Ben Spencer — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:17:22 +0000

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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If you build it…they will come

Philip Black — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 11:25:53 +0000

cycle BOOM has been on tour recently, taking in the cycling sites in Munich, Germany and Seville, Spain. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our host cities and all those who took the time to teach us more about the approaches taken to promoting cycling. One of the key lessons we have... [Read More]

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‘Una bici mas’

Emma Street — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:18:38 +0000

“One more bicycle” – these three words are the rallying cry for the community cycling campaign group Siclas. I was lucky enough to meet with three of the founder members, during a recent trip to Colombia. Siclas is based in Medellin, a city of 2.5 million people, located in the sub-tropical Antioquia region in northwest... [Read More]

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But[tocks]…what exactly are cities for?

Ben Spencer — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:04:12 +0000

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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What does “the ageing research showcase of the decade” tell us?

Ben Spencer — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:53:22 +0000

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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