Vortrag im monatlichen Plenum bei der Fahrradstadt Braunschweig am 5 August 2019. Herzlichen Dank für die Einladung! Viel Glück und gutes Gelingen – und maßgeblich natürlich Spaß – für und bei Braunschweigs eigenem Radentscheid. Title “Meine* Sicht auf die Verkehrswende – *weibliche (?)” Folienspeicher:
“Intersecting Cycling and Feminism – or: how we talk inclusively about women & cycling” Presentation to Cambridge Women’s Institute, 9 March 2019
ABSTRACT – Assembling seven years of activism experience Katja Leyendecker Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK) As part of my auto/ethnographic PhD project “women activists’ experience of local cycle politics” (2019, forthcoming) I used a number of qualitative methods including blogging, interviews and policy analysis. I also collated a video diary that would enable me to tell… Read More Abstract “Assembling seven years of activism experience”
Presentation prepared for Cycling & Society symposium in 2018
Lecture “Normalising cycling” Part of Aalto University Summer School: “Enabling human-centered mobility systems” 21 August 2018
Turns and twists. After last year’s big revelation about the variable constitution of data (hint: they are not just numbers), I continued my conversion from applied natural scientist (engineer) to social scientist. One of my struggles was revolving around the question of what type of data to collect for my PhD – to make the… Read More My PhD data
The first half of my retrospective diary has been assembled. That half-time marker presents an unmissable occasion to have a good look at what has been achieved, if anything, so far. I am currently listening through the video diaries to pick out threads, strands and loose ends – weeding and chaffing. I can then refine… Read More Fighting on four fronts
As part of my participation at the International Cycling Conference (poster and paper The potential cyclist), I was prompted to have a look at the Transport Types dataset, survey listed here. Thanks again for everyone who contributed, and thanks for passing the survey on to friends, family, colleagues. It worked a treat with 1,673 responses… Read More Saturation point – the dashing already cycle
I have been fidgetting about this for quite a while, stemming from the long and winding tunnel of ethnographic angst that I was dragging myself through over the past few months. But coming out the other end and seeing a light sometimes means just doing something – anything, taking the plunge. To my surprise the… Read More Dear diary
Let’s think about a neighbourhood-wide space-change project. The key thing in making participatory / deliberative planning work, as far as I can make out, is to figure out who does what, and to do that well in advance of the interaction. In my observation, council have often taken up extreme positions: either turning up with… Read More Groundwork for citizen involvement
here and there and nowhere
Radfahren und Gehen sollten wichtige Bestandteilen der Verkehrspolitik sein
The UK government has declared that they are "ending The War On The Motorist". These are our correspondents' dispatches from the front lines of their policies.
From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere...
Well it should be, shouldn't it?
A thorn in the side of the UK's road designers
spatial fairness
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