Practitioner meeting: slides
At the practitioner group meeting, we had two workshops relating to issues arising from the research project. Each workshop was kicked off by a short presentation (15 minutes). Because we wanted the workshop to be practitioner-focused and interactive, we didn’t do the traditional talk-plus-questions. Instead we used the talks as a springboard for posing questions to practitioners, allowing them to respond to the issues raised in the presentations.
Here are the slides from the presentations: notes from the presentation workshops to follow soon.
“Good cycling, bad cyclists?” – this presentation raised the issue of why, when cycling seemed to be part of the policy mainstream, cyclists remain stigmatised. It uses data from Hull and Cambridge to demonstrate how uncomfortable a “cycling identity” can be for people.
“Cycling citizenship” – this presentation suggested that cycling could be seen as related to new forms of citizenship, including healthy citizenship and eco-citizenship. Data mostly from Cambridge is used to discuss how cycling might affect people’s relationships to their local social and natural environments.