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Update post cycle BOOM

Tim Jones — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:41:58 +0000

Welcome back to the cycle BOOM blog. After a busy crescendo to the project, with our conferences in London and Manchester to launch our findings and recommendations in September 2016, we bring you up to date with recent developments and future plans. The final conferences were successful in bringing together a total of more than... [Read More]

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“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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Positive Spin

Ben Spencer — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:40:52 +0000

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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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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Velomobile Methods: Investigation | Interrogation | Interpretation

Tim Jones — Tue, 31 May 2016 10:05:22 +0000

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]

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Life Cycle UK’s Over 55’s Cycling Project

Tim Jones — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:40:57 +0000

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]

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Tales from Taipei: exploring the evolution of cycling

Nicholas Beale — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:32:18 +0000

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]

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The ‘Teardrop’ Explodes?*

Ben Spencer — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:20:00 +0000

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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Moving Emotions: Towards Harmonious and Happy Cycling Cities

Nicholas Beale — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:05:41 +0000

“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]

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Wrapping up a data packed 2015!

Nicholas Beale — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:52:24 +0000

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]

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