Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
It’s been too long since our last cycle ink post! By ‘cycle ink’ – I mean bicycle tattoos! I first posted about Cycle Ink way back in August 2016, where I delved into the bike-tattoo world as an antidote for too much solo work time. And boy did it do the trick! In that post …
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After a very challenging two weeks of marking assessments for a new course I’m teaching, I find myself more than a little tired and rough around the edges. This all-consuming marking comes with associated moderation meetings, which were a lovely reprieve from solitary work, but also meant going back and checking many of the results …
Books are good. Bikes are great. Books with bikes are better. Books with bikes that help people are the best. Books with bikes that help people have difficult conversations are the best. Oli and the pink bike is a short story book for children about alcohol feotal syndrome. What is the story about? This UK …
Latin America is driving the promotion the use of bicycles as a means of transportation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and creating cleaner and healthier societies. Costa Rica has a progressive national policy that promotes the use of bicycles and road safety education. Here is a little more about what is happening there. Very inspiring! Enjoy! …
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In Ireland, fewer than 1 in every 250 school girl rides a bike to school. This is despite the fact that bikes are an environmentally friendly and healthy mode of transportation. While the number of boys who cycle to school has been steadily increasing over the years, the number of girls remains relatively static. So …
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In the bustling city of Edmond, it can be difficult to keep up with watering all of the urban planters. However, one man has come up with a solution: a solar-powered tricycle that can reach even the most hard-to-reach planters. Edmond local, Travis Kennedy, has devised an ingenious solar-powered plant watering bike after noticing that …
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This week, I put in an EOI application for Kungullanji’s Summer Program. Regular readers of this blog know that I have been working with Griffith’s Indigenous Research Unit (IRU) and Kungullanji as an Academic Skills Advisor for the last 4 years. But this is the first time I have put in to be a project …
In this session, we explored: How affect features in queer performance – and what does gender and sexuality have to do with it? We were very excited to have guest presenter Assoc. Prof. Alyson Campbell from the School of Theatre, Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) to lead us on this curious and …
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I first came across this story while scouring the internet for community-focused, bike-related, arts-based projects. This project caught my eye as it was initiated by a group of senior UCLA academics and I like the innovative use of technology to get more people engaged with bicycle commuting. Projects like this are inspiring not only in …
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Celebrating diversity in bike ridership is a key theme for this blog. This blog actively promotes a fuller range of rider experiences, alternative bike set ups, and projects and events that are inclusive of more-than-the-mainstream-norm kinds of bike riding. Sadly, many of these initiatives do not receive adequate attention and often remain invisible and un(der)recognised. …
Continue reading “Riding the Indian Pacific Wheel Race for CycleAbility”