Cambridge March 2019
“Intersecting Cycling and Feminism – or: how we talk inclusively about women & cycling” Presentation to Cambridge Women’s Institute, 9 March 2019
Category: census
Lecture “Normalising cycling”
Lecture “Normalising cycling” Part of Aalto University Summer School: “Enabling human-centered mobility systems” 21 August 2018
Health warning about the PCT
Transport planning has a biased focus on the commute, yet 80% of journeys are non-work journeys. It is therefore painful to see that a recently published tool (yes, yet another online tool!) has very little to say about this limitation. Here I am talking about the PCT tool. It stands for ‘propensity to cycle’ and… Read More Health warning about the PCT
It makes complete common Census
Leading on from last week’s Census 2011 data analysis (see slideshare presentation embedded here), I’d like to highlight some of the key findings that would otherwise remain hidden away in the slides. This is important as the census data clearly demonstrates the enormous potential for reducing car use (ie mode shift). Whilst the census data is… Read More It makes complete common Census
Census and the ‘Cycle Active City’
This slideshare presentation below is a 15-min fast lane ploughing through the Census 2011 data – according to a woman engineer / feminist academic / cycling-for-all advocate with a sensible Spatial Turn, severe leanings to the socio-ecological theory and Lefebvre‘s Production of Space and right to the city. Expect loads of pies and bar charts.… Read More Census and the ‘Cycle Active City’
EnCouRage
Just about seven weeks into my 3-year PhD, and I presented at RGS Midterm in Sheffield this week. Never too early to present, apparently. The RGS Midterm is a conference held by the Royal Geographical Society and is covering its full spectral colourset of subject matters. Psychogeographies, creepy-crawlies and warring board games, all were debated.… Read More EnCouRage
Our roads need (psycho)analysis
The gender imbalance in cycle commuting (I had a look at last week) also happens over the age groups, I found out this week. The graphical representation is different compared to the one I adopted last week. The x-axis has now become the age groups. Women’s percentage contribution to cycle commuting and cycle share have moved… Read More Our roads need (psycho)analysis
Re-cycling decades of debate
Taking my reading this week (my EndNote library now stands at nearly 450 references, aaaaaah), it strikes me quite hard that cycling is an inherently female means of transport if we let it, see gender split in cycle share graph below, Pucher, Buehler (2012). In low-cycling countries like the UK where there’s high inequality in the gender… Read More Re-cycling decades of debate
Gingering up about gender
With encouraging help and many hints from others (thanks Matt, Rachel, Alex and Vasilis) I have now discovered, and delved into, the massive online data warehouses. To get to know the Census 2011 better I thought it might be good idea to have a general look at basic commuter ‘behaviour’ – the mode share pie.… Read More Gingering up about gender
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