PROMOTING WALKING AND CYCLING
New perspectives on sustainable travel
Colin Pooley
with
Tim Jones, Miles Tight, Dave Horton, Griet Scheldeman, Caroline Mullen, Ann Jopson, Emanuele Strano
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dave Horton is a sociologist and writer based in Lancaster, UK. His research is focused on the environment, culture, everyday life, politics, social movements and mobility. However, his main interest and passion is cycling. Dave worked on the Understanding Walking and Cycling (UWAC) research project 200811 with particular responsibility for the qualitative and ethnographic research, and is a founder member of the Cycling and Society Research Group. His publications include Cycling and Society (Ashgate, 2007), which he co-edited with Paul Rosen and Peter Cox. He writes about cycling for both the academic and popular press and blogs at http://thinkingaboutcycling.wordpress.com.
Tim Jones is a research fellow dividing his time between the Faculty of Technology Design and Environment at Oxford Brookes University and the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford, UK. His research is primarily focused on walking and cycling for short journeys in urban areas, and the application of multiple methods to understand taken-for-granted practices. He was a co-investigator on the UWAC project 200811, taking particular responsibility for analysis of the built environment and for the Q Methodology. He was a former member of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Programme Development Group for Walking and Cycling and is a current member of the governments Cycling Stakeholder Forum.
Ann Jopson is a research fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. Her expertise includes travel behaviour psychology, transport planning and policy (including land use), with a particular emphasis on attitudinal and behavioural measures and the social aspects of transport. She worked on the UWAC project 200811 with particular responsibility for the development of the questionnaire survey and for its analysis using the Theory of Planned Behaviour.
Caroline Mullen is a research officer at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK. She works on ethics, political philosophy and governance in transport, environment and health. Current research includes governance and carbon reduction, and investigating implications of equality for sustainability, especially for walking and cycling. Her PhD, from the University of Manchester, was on moral defensibility of transport-related risk and harms. Her publications include H. Widdows and C. Mullen (eds) The Governance of Genetic Information: Who Decides? (2009, Cambridge University Press), and Mobility (transport) in R. Chadwick, Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, 2nd edition (2012, Academic Press, pp 13744).
Colin Pooley is Emeritus Professor of Social and Historical Geography in The Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the social geography of Britain and continental Europe since around 1800, with recent projects focused on residential migration, travel to work and other aspects of everyday mobility, including walking and cycling. He has published approximately 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters and 12 books, including Migration and Mobility in Britain Since the Eighteenth Century (1998, University College London Press) and A Mobile Century? Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century (2005, Ashgate).
Griet Scheldeman is a social anthropologist working in the UK and Europe. Her research interests centre on perceptive and creative processes in the relationships between people and their environments. With Dave Horton, Griet conducted the ethnographic component of the walking and cycling project. She has published on adolescents lives with insulin pumps, and on urban walking, including Beyond A to B in T. Ingold, Redrawing Anthropology (2011, Ashgate) and Gliding effortlessly through life? in W. Gunn and J. Donovan, Design Anthropology (2012, Ashgate). Funded by a postdoctoral grant from the Norwegian Research Council she is currently investigating creativity in Arctic scientists field practices.
Emanuele Strano is a PhD student at the Laboratory of Geographic Information System at the Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne, Switzerland, and has degrees from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. His research is focused on quantitative analysis of urbanization processes including the use of complex networks and remote sensing, and on the interface between urban planning, urban design and advanced spatial analysis. Emanuele has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Urban Studies, Environment and Planning B and Nature Scientific Report. He was responsible for the spatial analysis reported in .
Miles Tight
