Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
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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For our August New Materialisms SIG, we were delighted to have Dr. Theresa Ashford (USC) share some of her current NM research considerations, thoughts and processes. In this session, we explored how ethics feature in New Materialisms research. NM Session: Ethics in/with classrooms, comics and computers. This session explores the idea of New Materialisms and …
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Leo Rodgers is a man who loves to ride his bike. Leo lives with his family in Tampa Bay (USA) and has become a well-known figure in the community bike scene as a hero for diversity and inclusion after having his left leg amputated following a motorbike accident 14 years ago. After learning to walk …
Being a posthumanist, embodied researcher means that I think and do things a little differently from mainstream ‘traditional’ researchers. But I am not the only posthumanist researcher. It is very exciting to see increasing more scholars thinking, doing and writing posthumanism project. My work comes under Posthumanism and more specifically New Materialisms. New Materialisms has …
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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 …
Innovative technology is increasingly being applied to bike riding to address some very pressing issues, such as increasing bike participation and rider safety. Previously I’ve posted on the pioneering work of Griffith researchers working on the world’s first ‘thought-control’ bicycle for spinal injury rehab (see more here). This story details Dr. Dinesh Palipana who is …
In anticipation of Griffith’s New Materialisms (NM) Special Interest Group (SIG) starting back up very soon for 2021, I’m looking back over what we have done so far. I am the co-convenor of Griffith’s New Materialism SIG. The aim of the New Materialisms Special Interest Group is to provide a supportive space for students, HDR …
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There are many reasons why I love where I’m currently living and riding. I live on Narlang Quandamooka land which is Morton Bayside 25 km out of Brisbane (AUST). In my neighbourhood, we have fantastic bayside foreshore pathways, heritage-listed Mangrove reserves, native bushland and swathes of green parklands. The natural environment was a definitive reason …
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In this post, we look at how Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, their two children (aged 11 and 2) and pet dog used an incredible 6,000km family bike tour up the east coast of Australia as a way of putting into action their ethical, environmental and social principles. This is the fifth and last instalment of …
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Another epic cycling story! If you were impressed fifteen-year-old Jyoti Kumari’s 1, 200kms bike ride to get her disabled father home, here is another inspirational epic ride. This story is about two 90-year-old WWII friends who are undertaking a commemorative stationary cycle challenge. After seeing this story, I will never accept “I’m too old” as …
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