Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
It has been a busy week and I needed a bit of a boost. As a bike rider and two-wheeled enthusiast, it’s easy for me to love bikes and share that love with others. But not everyone loves bikes as much as bike enthusiasts do. But, there are many well-known people who are not famous …
Happy New Gear (Year) – and Happy New Decade! Another amazing year to explore our local surrounds and beyond on two wheels! Whatever you ride and however often you ride it – now is the time to reinvigorate you and your beloved bicycle! How about this year, sharing your love of cycling beyond your normal …
Going overseas for a bike tour is a great way to get around, see local sites and keep fit and active. Increasingly, cyclists are either taking their bikes away with them or are signing up for a localised one or multi-day biking adventure such as ‘bike and cook‘ trips or ‘winery bike tours‘. If you …
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Last month, Leki and I joined 350,000 Australians nation-wide – and millions of people in over 150 countries worldwide – who hit the streets to rally for #ClimateAction. In Australia, there were mass rallies in 8 capital cities as well as 104 other centres. This day of action is known as ‘the student strikes for …
Hooray – it is October! It is my favourite month of the year for many reasons. It is the best time of the year where I live in Brisbane, the weather is terrific and my garden is flourishing. It is early spring, so it means long warm days perfect for getting out being out riding! …
As regular readers of this blog know, I am undertaking my bicycle PhD with Griffith University, School of Professional Studies. I am using Feminist New Materialisms (FNM) to explore how bicycles enable or constrain rural African girls’ access to education. I need to better understand FNM (which is essentially Quantum Physics applied to Social Science/Education). …
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Adrien Niyonshuti The remarkable story of cyclist Adrien Niyonshuti is one of resilience, opportunity and hard work. Adrien Niyonshuti is arguably the most famous African mountain biker to date. As covered in may news reports, Niyonshuti was seven when the militia men came to his village in Rwanda. Somehow, he escaped the April 1994 genocide – but six …
The start of this month was epic! First of all, it was Father’s Day in Australia and the weather in Brisbane this time of year is absolutely stunning. This meant everyone was out and about. There were two annual kick-ass Brisbane bike events to get this month off to a brilliant start: The Big Push and The Kurilpa Derby. So …
In July, I attended ResBaz Brisbane and went to a session by Griffith Uni’s amazing Amanda Miotto. Amanda is a Senior eResearch Analyst and is central to the hugely popular Hacky Hour. I was super impressed with her knowledge and excellent advice for researchers on how to use technology more effectively. In a recent consultation …
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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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