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School Streets
Active Travel Podcast - July 01, 2024 15:57 - 56 minutesDr. Tom Cohen, Reader in Transport at Westminster University and member of the Active Travel Academy interviews Dr. Asa Thomas, who recently completed his PhD research with the Active Travel Academy. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/school-streets-ata...
Accessibility and Urban Design
Active Travel Podcast - January 25, 2024 11:04 - 48 minutesDr. Harrie Larrington-Spencer, Research Fellow at the Active Travel Academy, interviews Professor Aimi Hamraie, who directs the Critical Design Lab, and whose research focuses on disability, accessibility, and urban design. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.u...
Queering Cartographic Methods
Active Travel Podcast - July 06, 2023 06:44 - 1 hourRachel Aldred, Professor of Transport and Director of the Active Travel Academy, interviews Ellis Fannin, a PhD researcher at the University of Manchester, about their research on queering cartographic methods. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/queerin...
Barriers to Black men cycling in London
Active Travel Podcast - June 01, 2023 12:47 - 54 minutesDulce Pedroso, PhD researcher at the Active Travel Academy, interviews Akwesi Osei of Possible about his research into barriers to Black men cycling in London. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/barriers-to-black-men-cycling-in-london-ata-podcast-3/. Th...
Planning for Trans Futures
Active Travel Podcast - May 02, 2023 07:41 - 1 hourProfessor Rachel Aldred, Director of the Active Travel Academy, interviews Matt C. Smith of Brighton University about their research into trans in planning, and trans experiences in the city. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/planning-for-trans-futures...
Neurodiversity in the City
Active Travel Podcast - April 04, 2023 12:41 - 1 hourProfessor Rachel Aldred, Director of the Active Travel Academy, interviews Dr. Therese Kenna of University College Cork about her research into experiences of neurodivergence in the city. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/new-ata-podcast-season/ Thanks...
Still I Ride 2: How women of colour are challenging discourses in and through cycling
Active Travel Podcast - December 07, 2021 09:39 - 38 minutesCycling has always been about more than its health, economic and environmental benefits. The rise of women cyclists coincided with the age of the new, educated and independent woman. The early moral outcry over women’s cycling outfits and alleged damage to their feminine physical features may se...
Still I Ride 1: How women of colour are challenging discourses in and through cycling
Active Travel Podcast - December 07, 2021 09:36 - 40 minutesSo, in a culture, where the car is really dominant, being a cyclist can make it feel like you’re a second class citizen. And if you already feel invisible in society, because of your identity, because of who you are or the way you look, it may seem odd that you would opt for more of these otheri...
Harrie Larrington-Spencer talks accessible cycling with Professor Rachel Aldred
Active Travel Podcast - April 14, 2021 14:59 - 40 minutesProfessor Aldred talks to Harriet Larrington-Spencer, a researcher at Healthy Active Cities at the University of Salford. Harriet, or Harrie, developed an interest in active travel after experiencing cycling in Copenhagen and the Netherlands, and after losing the use of her left arm following a ...
Active Travel Media Awards - the interviews part one
Active Travel Podcast - January 28, 2021 17:39 - 39 minutesLaura Laker interviews Fare City's Charles Critchell, the Active Travel Academy Media Awards' only double winner. In 2019 Charles won our investigations/long-term follow-up category for his piece, Burning Bridges, on the closure of Hammersmith Bridge to motor traffic, and in 2020 won the campaig...
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - latest evidence from the People and Places study
Active Travel Podcast - September 23, 2020 13:36 - 28 minutesLow traffic neighbourhoods have been around for decades – but recently many more have been deployed as part of COVID-19 interventions to help people walk and cycle more, and avoid public transport. New analysis of three years of the People and Places study in “Mini Hollands” in London, by Dr Rac...
Cycling for Everyone: how we get there
Active Travel Podcast - August 28, 2020 09:49 - 40 minutesSustrans’ and Arup’s new report, Cycling for Everyone, was published at a time when both the Black Lives Matter movement and the active travel movement are at the forefront of public discussion. Susan Claris is one of the report’s authors, and Global Active Travel Leader at Arup, and Daisy Naray...
Walking practices in the Global South with Daniel Oviedo and Luz Navarro
Active Travel Podcast - August 19, 2020 10:44 - 41 minutesThe current global pandemic has pushed most cities in the Global North to rethink how we envision our streets to create car-free, safe, healthy and clean environments for its citizens. However, in the context of African cities, this transition is marked by extreme poverty, unequal access to good...
PhDPOD: How a ‘practice theory’ approach can help us make sense of cycling experiences, cultures, and activism
Active Travel Podcast - July 30, 2020 16:01 - 39 minutesOur second PhD pod showcases Dr. Rorie Parsons’ PhD research. Rorie used a range of different qualitative methods, including archival analysis, interviews, and ride-alongs, to explore cycling cultures and cycling advocacy in Newcastle. This takes in both contemporary practices and those that cam...
PhDPOD: New qualitative research delves into the why and how of active travel
Active Travel Podcast - July 15, 2020 09:33 - 1 hourSome of the most exciting active travel research is done as part of a PhD, and this is our first Active Travel Podcast to showcase a couple of recent PhD studies. These two projects, from Dr. Katja Leyendecker and Dr. Emma Mbabazi, use qualitative methods to dig into the how and the why of trav...
Active Travel Podcast - data in active travel, part two
Active Travel Podcast - July 01, 2020 17:24 - 36 minutesData in active travel is big news right now, and this is our second in a two-part series discussing some of the latest research in the field. When a global pandemic required us to avoid public transport and, ideally, cars, making cycling's usefulness for everyday trips even more apparent, trans...
Active Travel Podcast - data in active travel, part one
Active Travel Podcast - June 18, 2020 17:13 - 30 minutesBig data is a big issue right now - and we are perhaps about to realise just how much information Google and Apple have on us. Data is hugely important in understanding how we travel, but while we've been very good at measuring car traffic, how we measure cycling and walking is far more primitiv...
Active Travel Podcast Pilot: Media reporting of Active Travel
Active Travel Podcast - May 26, 2020 15:22 - 1 hourThe Active Travel Academy's (ATA) Dr Rachel Aldred and journalist Laura Laker talk media reporting of active travel, in this two-part pilot episode of the Active Travel Podcast. First up, your hosts speak to researchers Tara Goddard (Texas A&M University) and Kelcie Ralph (Rutgers University, ...
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