Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 16 April 2013 Seminar/workshop
Cycling cultures in a mass motorised society: a multi-method case study of four English urban areas
- Start date: 01 January 2010
- End date: 31 December 2011
Currently the UK faces major policy challenges including climate change, economic crisis, and the rise in limiting, costly illnesses linked to low levels of physical activity. Transport contributes to these problems, and active transport - walking and cycling - could be part of the solution; green, cheap, and offering an obvious way for many people to get the daily exercise they need. However, we need more evidence about how active transport levels could be increased.
This project will focus on cycling, studying four relatively high-cycling areas and trying to find out why cycling thrives in these areas. In these areas, it is likely that many residents who cycle regularly would not do so if they lived elsewhere in the UK. Their experiences are important for understanding processes through which cycling becomes "normal".
The four chosen areas - Cambridge, Hackney, Hull, and Bristol - have different social, spatial, and political characteristics. The project will use a mix of qualitative methods to analyse components of different cycling cultures, and how inclusive they are of different social groups. It will investigate how people think about and practise cycling within each locality, and explain how cycling provides particular ways of experiencing the four places.
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Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 16 April 2013 Seminar/workshop
Who are Londoners on bikes and what do they want? : negotiating identity and issue definition in a ‘pop-up’ cycle campaign
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 15 March 2013 Journal article
Interviewee: Rachel Aldred Date: 26 February 2013 Dissemination / Communication
Speaker: Rachel Aldred Date: 26 February 2013 Presentation/lecture
Speaker: Rachel Aldred Date: 26 February 2013 Dissemination / Communication
Participant: Rachel Aldred Date: 12 December 2012 Board/Council/Panel
Speaker: Rachel Aldred Date: 12 December 2012 Presentation/lecture
Speaker: Rachel Aldred Date: 12 December 2012 Presentation/lecture
Speaker: Rachel Aldred Date: 11 October 2012 Dissemination / Communication
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 05 October 2012 Presentation/lecture
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 05 October 2012 Seminar/workshop
Organiser: Rachel Aldred Date: 05 October 2012 Organised event
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 10 September 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 10 September 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 24 August 2012 Journal article
Author: Genevieve Bell Date: 26 July 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 26 July 2012 Conference paper/presentation
Organiser: Rachel Aldred Date: 20 June 2012 Organised event
Cycling cultures : summary of findings and policy recommendations
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 20 June 2012 Other Report
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 20 June 2012 Book chapter
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 20 June 2012 Journal article
Author: Rachel Aldred Date: 20 June 2012 Journal article
Speaker: Rachel Aldred Date: 06 March 2012 Presentation/lecture
Speaker: Rachel Aldred Date: 06 March 2012 Seminar/workshop