Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
On the weekend, I rode the South East Queensland (SEQ) Enduro 2016 Round 3 at Garapine. It was my first Enduro foray out this year, but I wanted to make the effort to get on the bike after a very busy semester. I needed the fresh air and break from Brisbane. I didn’t care about …
I’m interrupting Gabriel’s guest post fortnight to express my disbelief and sorrow at hearing that Canadian Downhiller Stevie Smith has died. It still has not quite sunk in and I can’t really believe it yet. We just saw him in Cairns and it is such tragic news to hear – and so soon after saying goodbye …
Being away in Cairns for the 2016 UCI World Cup was a brilliant thing to do and I had a ball, but it meant that I have not done any work on my Lit Review for a week. I made an effort to achieve some writing goals before I left, as I wanted to be …
Hey there, bike friends! If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you already know that I’m passionate about bikes, books, animals, and art. I’ve previously posted on a range of initiatives that celebrate bike books, for example: Today, I have another fantastic book to add to your collection—one that combines a love for bikes, …
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In this session, we are truly transcending time, space, place and bodies as we explore the NM potentialities of reimagining an inspirational, yet relatively, unknown WWII story. We are very excited to have guest presenter Jenny Ginsberg (University of La Trobe) presenting key insights of her recent Master’s research. Jenny is putting together a PhD …
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ICQI 2021: Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry ICQI…..you know….only the largest ……. and most respected qualitative research conference IN THE WORLD! … and with all the biggest names! My PhD supervisor said I should consider submitting an abstract for this conference. Doing so is a VERY BIG DEAL – this congress is the pinnacle in my …
Recently, I attended a very unique opportunity: a 4-part virtual Geography, Art and Memory Workshop co-convened by Griffith’s Centre for Social and Cultural Research Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro, Dr Diti Bhattacharya, Dr Kaya Barry and Prof. Barabra Pini. As a New Materialisms community bike researcher working in Sierra Leone, my work is embedded with post(de)coloniality, …
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Recently I’ve been preoccupied with maps. Maps are ubiquitous and we’ve all used them at some stage: schematic maps of bus routes, locating ‘you are here’ to explore a city, finding the nearest train station, driving to a new destination or going on holiday. As a bike rider, I use maps to check and navigate …
Hooray! My abstract for the upcoming Pedagogies in the Wild Conference has been accepted! This is great news because I already have an abstract accepted for the international 2019 New Materialist Reconfigurations of Higher Education Conference (Dec 2-4th 2019) and this conference follows straight after (4-6th December) and is at the same place – the …
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Recently, I submitted an abstract to present at the 2019 University English Centers Australia (UECA) Assessment Symposium – and it has been accepted! I am an action-orientated, hands-on, tread-the-boards participatory kind of educator. I used to think that assessments were a chore, ineffective, didn’t reflect the full student learning experience and was something that was …
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