The 2015 Annual Cycling and Society Symposium was hosted by the University of Manchester and the University of Salford. The presentations are available below.

The organisers, Gabi Schliwa and Graeme Sherriff, wrote an article for Greater Manchester’s ‘Platform‘ on the symposium, presentations and discussions. The event was featured on That’s Manchester TV (YouTube Video).

Presentations

Day 1

Session A – Infrastructure & Governance

• Brian Deegan (Transport for London)
  The role of governance, planning and stakeholder engagement in the delivery of major cycling infrastructure in London (pdf)
• Chris Mason (Bristol City Council)
  Developing the Bristol Cycle Network (pdf)
• Simon Ho (Transport for Greater Manchester)
  The Internet of Things and the Electric Bike: innovation opportunities for increasing bike ridership and cutting congestion (pdf)

Session B – Cycling from 8 to 80 (Chair: Brian Deegan)

• Rachel Aldred & Bridget Elliott (University of Westminster):
  Inviting Infrastructure: do preferences differ by age and gender? (pdf)
• Wilbert den Hoed (Newcastle University):
  Understanding cycling over the life course: a comparison between suburban residential neighbourhoods in Newcastle upon Tyne and Rotterdam (pdf)
• Oskar Funk (Roskilde University):
  Set the children free – on active transportation in children’s school mobility (pdf)
• Carl Mann and Justin Spinney (Cardiff University): Cycle BOOM

Session C – Conflicting notions of cycling (Chair: Robin Lovelace)

• Lucas Brailsford (Lucas Brailsford Design, Amsterdam):
  Cycling in the city, traffic law breaking, lawless cycling society (pdf) Cyclists behaving badly – Understanding cyclist disobedience in Amsterdam (YouTube Video)
• Cosmin Popan (Lancaster University):
  The sensescapes of cycling (pdf)
• Dag Balkmar (Örebro University): Violent traffic: men, masculinities and road conflicts in ‘cycling friendly’ Sweden (pdf)

Guest Presentation (pdf) by Pete Abel, Love Your Bike, Greater Manchester

Session D – Cycling Uptake (Chair: Katja Leyendecker)

• James Woodcock (CEDAR, University of Cambridge): Public health overview (pdf)
• Paul Wilson (University of Salford): The development of cycle commuting centres from a social practice perspective (pdf)
• Raymond Pritchard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Bicycle route choice data – an overview of methodological approaches. (pdf)
• Robin Lovelace (Leeds University): The National Propensity to Cycle Tool: building an on-line interactive tool to prioritise where to investment in walking and cycling

Rev Andy Salmond, Chair of Salford Cycle Forum
Guest presentation by Steve Connor, Creative Concern

Day 2

Session E – Why don’t more people cycle? (Chair: Graeme Sherriff)

• Andy Binder, Giles Perkins and David Wildman (Mouchel Ltd.):
  “Too wet, too windy, too dangerous, too far, too hilly, too hard…” What are the real barriers to cycling in the UK? (pdf)
• Tor Brørs, Robert Næss & Jøran Solli (Norwegian University of Science and Technology):
  Flattening out Norway – a study of electric bicycle users (pdf)
• Magda Cepeda (Leeds University):
  Perception of social class and status attached to cyclists acting as barrier for cycling (pdf)
• James O’Hare (Newcastle University):
  Using techniques from market research to help us understand the reasons people do or don’t cycle (pdf)
• Meredith Glaser, Sophie Schuff, Marco te Brömmelstroet & Bianca Hermansen (Copenhagenize)
  Learning about the cycling city is like riding a bike: it must be experienced (pdf)
  Workshop: Learning about the cycling city is like riding a bike: it must be experienced

Session F – Cycling Economics (Chair: Paul Wilson)

• Chris White (University of Chester):
  The conundrum of public life: delivering a cycling demonstration towns project in the North West of England. (pdf)

Session G – Cycling Practice (Chair: Graeme Sherriff)

• Katja Leyendecker (Northumbria University):
  Public perceptions of cycle space – method and approach (pdf)
• Mikkel de Vries Bækgaard & Andreas Hansborg Olsen, co-author Marco te Brömmelstroet (Aalborg University Copenhagen):
  Understanding cycling as an embodied practice (pdf)
• Viktoria Wesslowski (Facilitating Sustainable Practices, Hamburg):
  Facilitating a contested practice: building and growing urban transport cycling in Santiago de Chile (pdf)