The Cycling and Society Symposium comes back home!

The Centre for Mobilities Research and the EPSRC Liveable Cities Programme are proud to host the 13th Cycling and Society Symposium, 12 years after its inception at Lancaster University.

See the  symposium programme and book of abstracts.

Also check this reading list that was put together on that year, a fantastic list of academic references!

Day 1: Thursday, 29 September

Welcome and Introduction by Dave Horton (founder Cycling and Society) and Monika Büscher (director Cemore)

Session 1: Cycling and Everyday Life in the City;

Chair: Cosmin Popan (Lancaster University, UK)

• Liv Jorun Andenes (Agency for Bicycling in the City of Oslo, Norway)  ’Making Oslo a bicycle friendly city – Ambitions, efforts and results’ (pdf)
• Esther Anaya (Imperial College London, UK): ‘’A framework to study the impact of the built environment in cycling behaviour‘ (pdf)
• Jamie O’Hare, Wilbert den Hoed and Rorie Parsons (Newcastle University, UK): ‘Shaping inclusive cycling practices using Anglo-Dutch perspectives: we are (not) so different from each other’ (pdf)
• Maximilian Hoor (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany): ‘The Bicycle as a Symbol of Lifestyle and Status? Towards the Cultural Meaning of Urban Cycling’ (pdf)
  Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (Brandeis University, USA): Nicholas A. Scott (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada): ‘Wilderness Futures: Cycling, Nature and the City’
• Lance Barrie (University of Wollongong, Australia): ‘“It was freezing cold, it was dark and I’m like, great I really enjoy this!”: understanding endurance cycling mobility practices’ (pdf)

Keynote presentation: Frauke Behrendt (University of Brighton, UK)

Session 2: Emerging Innovations for Cycling Futures

Chair: Dennis Zuev (CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal)

• Oskar Funk (Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark): ‘The potential for e-bikes in everyday life cycling practice‘ (pdf
• Robert Bradshaw (Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland): ‘Technical Citizenry and the Realisation of Bike Share Design Possibilitie’
• Shaun Williams (Cardiff University, Wales): ‘“Pleased to announce you’ll never cycle here”: Imagining the ‘(bi)cyclist’ in urban design orthodoxies and cycling infrastructure’ (pdf)
• Robin Lovelace (Leeds University, UK): ‘Tools of the trade: adapting 20th Century transport models for 21st Century challenges’
• Toby Smith (UC Davis, USA): ‘’Mapping the Cycling Body: Urban ontologies, locative knowledge, and digital drift in the Age of Strava‘ (pdf)

Session 3: Cycling Inequalities

Chair: Katerina Psarikidou (Lancaster University, UK)

• Martin Emanuel (Uppsala University, Sweden): ‘From Victim to Villain: Cycling, Mobility Policy, and Spatial Conflicts in Stockholm, ca 1980’ (pdf)
• Anne Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark):  ‘Cycling, sustainability and the power of mobility cultures‘ (pdf)
• Angela van der Kloof (Mobycon, Delft, The Netherlands): ‘‘Cycling for everyone’ in the Netherlands’ (pdf)
• Amy Lubitow (Portland State University, USA): ‘Barriers to Routine Cycling for Women and Minorities in Portland, Oregon’ (pdf)
• Marina Kohler Harkot (FAUUSP, São Paulo, Brazil): ‘Why don’t women cycle in São Paulo? An analysis on the low rates of women commuting cycling in São Paulo, Brazil’ (pdf)
• Kevin Hickman (Inclusive Cycling Forum, UK): ‘Lost in translation – is cycling’s lingua franca ignoring disabled people?’ (pdf)

Poster Presentations (I) on Cycling Innovations by: Gunter Tobias Barne Hofmeister; Connor Walsh & Hamish Thomas

Film screening: ‘La Course en tête’ (Joël Santoni, 1974). Foreword by Bruce Bennett (Lancaster University, UK)

Day 2: Friday, 30 September

Keynote presentation: Peter Cox (University of Chester, UK)

Session 4: Cycling Governance (I); Chair: Nick Brelsford (Sustrans)

• Fanny Paschek (University of Greenwich, UK): ‘The governance of cycling in London’ (pdf)
• Hugh Mackay, Hillary Reed and Tom Wells (Open University, UK; Cycling UK RTR – Portsmouth; New Image Bicycles): ‘Cycling governance: the structure of cycling organisations and their effectiveness in shaping policy’ (pdf)
• Gabriele Schliwa (The University of Manchester, UK): ‘What the hack!? Exploring civic hackathons for participatory urban governance – The case of cycling’
• Sally Watson (Newcastle University, UK): ’Probing elusive power structures within a city’s cycling politics‘ (pdf)
• Alan Munro (consultant researcher, UK): ‘Everybody wants to change the world: Re- imagining future notions of ‘activism’ in cycling Munro’ (pdf)
• Neil Andrews and Isabelle Clement (Wheels for Wellbeing, UK): ‘Beyond the bicycle: towards a true cycling revolution’

Poster Presentations (II) on Everyday Cycling by: Jamie O’Hare;
Bernhard Wieser; Graeme Sherriff & Stella Shackel

Session 5: Cycling Governance (II);

Chair: Dave Horton (founder Cycling and Society)

• Alistair Sheldrick and Gabriele Schliwa (The University of Manchester, UK): ‘Policy Learning and Sustainable Urban Transitions: Mobilising Berlin’s Cycling Renaissance’
• Dag Balkmar and Jane Summerton (Örebro University, Sweden): ‘Bicycling and politics: movements, strategies and visions in bicycle activism in Sweden’
• JP Amaral (Bike Anjo, São Paulo, Brazil): ‘Brazilian society and Municipalities together for the inclusion of bicycles in urban mobility plans’
• Chelsea Tschoerner (Nürtingen- Geislingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany): ‘From transport planning to policy for mobility: Cycling policy in Munich as an example of new forms of governance for everyday mobilities’
• Chihyung Jeon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea): ‘Dams and Bikes: The Four Rivers Bikeway and the Contested Mobilities in South Korea’
• Fariya Sharmeen (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands): ‘Cycling Innovations towards Urban Transitions in Energy, Policy and New Modalities’