Your suggestions for speakers are positively encouraged - see below I participated in the excellent and popular Women’s Cycle Forum in Edinburgh - apparently the first such event in the UK - and will be speaking at a similar type of event in Bristol next week (although Bristol’s women-only, and … Continue reading
I’m just finishing my visit to Lancaster University’s Centre for Mobilities Research in May and June, in my role as a 2013-4 Visiting Research Fellow. It’s been a great chance to catch up with people, meet some new people and generally get some good head space for research. On the … Continue reading
Speaking at these various events - looking forward to them all, it’ll be quite a mix! But all with a cycling angle of some sort… Saturday 17th May: LCC Space for Cycling Big Ride, Park Lane Thursday 5th June: Modelling World, Oval Friday 6th June/Saturday 7th June: Hackney Cycling Conference … Continue reading
A short post about last night’s workshop, a London Cycling Campaign/Living Streets joint event. This also formed part of the LCC Policy Forum seminar series, which I run - we’ve had roughly one a month since I started it going a year ago. (Living Streets and LCC have both just … Continue reading
I’m visiting Lancaster University’s Centre for Mobilities Research in May and June, in my role as a 2013-4 Visiting Research Fellow. During my visit I’ll be organising a symposium on Transport in the Media. Transport In The Media This interdisciplinary symposium explores relationships between transport policy and practice, academic research, … Continue reading
This week, Londoners heard the very welcome news that 33 of London’s biggest and nastiest road junctions were to be transformed: Gyratories at Archway, Aldgate, Swiss Cottage and Wandsworth, among others, will be ripped out and replaced with two-way roads, segregated cycle tracks and new traffic-free public space. The Elephant … Continue reading
I have a range of upcoming invited talks over the next few months (most related to cycling) and thought I should list them - if nothing else then for my own reference! Here they are: Contribution to ‘Politically Painless Active Travel‘ - Belfast/Derry and Sligo, 19th-20th June
Following my Erasmus visit to Lund, Sweden, Till Koglin from Lund University will be coming to London to give two seminars based on his research on cycling in Sweden and Denmark. Both are free and open to the public (but you need to register in advance) and both will be … Continue reading
Monday 8th April saw 120 people attend the launch event for the London Cycling Campaign’s Policy Forum seminar series. The series is open to the public, and seminars will take place regularly in Central London. More information here. At the launch event, London Cycling Commissioner Andrew Gilligan spoke on the … Continue reading
We held the second Modelling on the Move event at LSHTM yesterday. It brought an interdisciplinary group of experts (including public health academics and transport modellers) together to focus on public health perspectives in relation to transport modelling. Audio and thoughts from the day will be posted soon on the … Continue reading
