Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
During this holiday break, I have sorely missed our New Materialisms (NM) Special Interest Group (SIG) monthly meetings. NM is the approach I am using for my bicycle PhD (more specifically Quantum Physicist Karen Barad’s Agential Realism). I thrive on sharing ideas, resources and experiences with this incredible group. In November, we had our last …
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Happy New Year all! I hope you have been enjoying your time on and off the bike – and gearing up for another productive year! Regular readers know that BCC is not your average mainstream cycling blog ….. it is anything but! For my first post of 2021, I am revisiting this blog’s manifesto and …
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This week I am delivering my final in-progress PhD milestone before submission – the Thesis and Candidature Review Milestone (TCRM). The timing is perfect/necessary/awkward being right at the end of the year and just before holidays! Righto! What is a TCRM? The aim of the TCRM is a ‘final check-in’ to see how the candidate …
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The Australia Association for Research in Education (AARE) annual national conference was held in Brisbane this week. I was supposed to be in Cape Town (South Africa) presenting at two conferences: The 2019 New Materialist Reconfigurations of Higher Education Conference (Dec 2-4th 2019)and then straight after that conference Pedagogies in the Wild – the 3rd …
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FreshLines is an annual multi-day symposium run by Griffith HLSS postgraduates for postgraduates. It offers oral presentations, keynote presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and opportunities to network. This event is specifically designed for Griffith HLSS HDRers and is funded jointly by Griffith University’s School of Humanities, Languages & Social Science and the Griffith Centre for Social …
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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Australian Association for Educational Research 26-30 Nov 2023 The University of Melbourne PresentationsRochelle Banks: Culture, Complaint and Confidentiality: Using an autoethnographic lens to explore impacts of sexual harassment in educational institutions. Areej Yousef: “The only real Australians are Aboriginal Australians”: Reconstructing ethnolinguistic identities in Australian classrooms. Nina Ginsberg: Velo-onto-epistemology: Becoming(s)-with Bicycles, Gender, Education and Research. …
This blog is no stranger to bicycle tattoos. In earlier posts, I have looked at: Cycle ink (Part 1): the good, the interesting and the unusual Cycle Ink (Part 2): bike tattoo symbolism from a tattooist’s POV Thigh Bicycle Tattoos: bike tattoos on a very particular body part! Temporary Bicycle Tattoos: for the curious, but …
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 …