Active Travel Academy

We had an incredible response to our first Visiting Fellows application process, with many good applications. After shortlisting, we have managed to offer four Fellowships, to Farzaneh Bahrami, Amy Lubitow, Denver Nixon, and Nancy Smith Lea. While Covid-19 has postponed plans for them to visit in person, we continue to work together virtually, and will be featuring some of their work in our upcoming virtual Summer Programme, including our new podcast.

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Harrie Larrington-Spencer talks accessible cycling with Professor Rachel Aldred April 14, 2021
Professor Aldred talks to Harriet Larrington-Spencer, a researcher at Healthy Active Cities at the University of Salford. Harriet, or Harrie, developed an interest in active travel after experiencing cycling in Copenhagen and the Netherlands, and after losing the use of her left arm following a collision with a driver. Harrie discovered that while a tricycle […]
Active Travel Media Awards - the interviews part one January 28, 2021
Laura Laker interviews Fare City's Charles Critchell, the Active Travel Academy Media Awards' only double winner. In 2019 Charles won our investigations/long-term follow-up category for his piece, Burning Bridges, on the closure of Hammersmith Bridge to motor traffic, and in 2020 won the campaign or research category for a two-parter on non-commercial use of cargo […]
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - latest evidence from the People and Places study September 23, 2020
Low traffic neighbourhoods have been around for decades – but recently many more have been deployed as part of COVID-19 interventions to help people walk and cycle more, and avoid public transport. New analysis of three years of the People and Places study in “Mini Hollands” in London, by Dr Rachel Aldred and Dr Anna […]
Cycling for Everyone: how we get there August 28, 2020
Sustrans’ and Arup’s new report, Cycling for Everyone, was published at a time when both the Black Lives Matter movement and the active travel movement are at the forefront of public discussion. Susan Claris is one of the report’s authors, and Global Active Travel Leader at Arup, and Daisy Narayanan is Sustrans’ Director of Urbanism.Coincidentally […]
Walking practices in the Global South with Daniel Oviedo and Luz Navarro August 19, 2020
The current global pandemic has pushed most cities in the Global North to rethink how we envision our streets to create car-free, safe, healthy and clean environments for its citizens. However, in the context of African cities, this transition is marked by extreme poverty, unequal access to good quality infrastructure and lack of resources. Dr Daniel Oviedo works at […]
PhDPOD: How a ‘practice theory’ approach can help us make sense of cycling experiences, cultures, and activism July 30, 2020
Our second PhD pod showcases Dr. Rorie Parsons’ PhD research. Rorie used a range of different qualitative methods, including archival analysis, interviews, and ride-alongs, to explore cycling cultures and cycling advocacy in Newcastle. This takes in both contemporary practices and those that came before them, exploring links between what cycling means, how infrastructure is designed […]
PhDPOD: New qualitative research delves into the why and how of active travel July 15, 2020
Some of the most exciting active travel research is done as part of a PhD, and this is our first Active Travel Podcast to showcase a couple of recent PhD studies.These two projects, from Dr. Katja Leyendecker and Dr. Emma Mbabazi, use qualitative methods to dig into the how and the why of travel. Katja’s […]
Active Travel Podcast - data in active travel, part two July 1, 2020
Data in active travel is big news right now, and this is our second in a two-part series discussing some of the latest research in the field.When a global pandemic required us to avoid public transport and, ideally, cars, making cycling's usefulness for everyday trips even more apparent, transport authorities needed to know quickly where […]
Active Travel Podcast - data in active travel, part one June 18, 2020
Big data is a big issue right now - and we are perhaps about to realise just how much information Google and Apple have on us. Data is hugely important in understanding how we travel, but while we've been very good at measuring car traffic, how we measure cycling and walking is far more primitive.David […]
Active Travel Podcast Pilot: Media reporting of Active Travel May 26, 2020
The Active Travel Academy's (ATA) Dr Rachel Aldred and journalist Laura Laker talk media reporting of active travel, in this two-part pilot episode of the Active Travel Podcast.First up, your hosts speak to researchers Tara Goddard (Texas A&M University) and Kelcie Ralph (Rutgers University, Alaska), on their paper Does news coverage of traffic crashes affect […]

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@RachelAldred @tricyclemayor I super enjoyed listing to your discussion about inclusive design in the Active Travel Podcast! 🚲♿🍃 🏞️🔓

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Rachel Aldred @RachelAldred·

14 Apr

New @Active_ATA podcast! In which I talk to @tricyclemayor about inclusive active travel, cycling in the Netherlands and in Greater Manchester, research, 20 minute neighbourhoods - and of course her dog Frida :) https://t.co/6Rd8uzItJw

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Laura Laker @laura_laker·

9 Apr

Back in the autumn the Daily Mail made inaccurate claims our media reporting guidelines for road collisions were calling for 'abuse of cyclists to be made a hate crime'. Today, in Laker v Daily Mail, I'm happy to announce press regulator IPSO has ruled in our favour

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