Active Travel Academy » ATA Webinar Week

Our Summer Webinar Week has now concluded. However, you can still watch the content using the links below.

Bringing together existing and new pre-recorded material created by and with ATA and the Active Travel Postgraduate Network, curated around key themes within the ATA’s research. Included on the opening day was a live panel and film screening. The online event took place across the week, with each day themed as follows:

Monday 26th July – Active Mobility With and By Children [re-watch] More>>

Tuesday 27th July – Active Travel Policy and Perception [re-watch] More>>

Wednesday 28th July – Active Travel Equity [re-watch] More>>

Thursday 29th July – After The Lockdown: Building permanent change from temporary adaptations [re-watch] More>>

Friday 30th July – Active Travel and Road Safety: Data and Discourses [re-watch] More>>

For any queries about the week, please contact d.fevyer1@westminster.ac.uk.

Itinerary

Monday 26th July – Active Mobility With and By Children

The Fine Art of Cycling with Children
Motherload Virtual Screening – Book via Eventbrite

2pm: Live Panel Discussion on Child Friendly Cities and Mobility – Book via Eventbrite
- Jenny Wood (A Place in Childhood)
- Nafsika Michail (Sustrans/University of Northumbria)
- Mariam Draaijer (JoyRiders)
- Lucy Marstrand (Technical Lead – Walking and Cycling, Metis Consultants)
- Beth Barker-Stock (Senior Cycling and Walking Officer, BCP)
- Chair: Holly Weir (Active Travel Academy).

Submit a question to the panel

Tuesday 27th July – Active Travel Policy and Perception

“The impoverished politics of active travel” – Policy and Politics
“The impoverished politics of active travel” – Language and Discourse
Quickviews: Active Travel in the Media – A selection of key ideas and views from 2020 Active Travel Media Awards.

Wednesday 28th July – Active Travel Equity

Enabling Wider Participation
Cycling for Everyone
Accessible Cycling
Introducing the Active Travel Academy Equity Fellows and their projects – A showcase of current projects.

Thursday 29th July – After The Lockdown: Building permanent change from temporary adaptations

Prioritising new infrastructure in the pandemic
Re-imagining our streets
Change is Here Plenary
Tools for local campaigners: Propensity to Cycle Tool

Friday 30th July – Active Travel and Road Safety: Data and Discourses

The Cycling Injury Risk Study
Active Travel Podcast: Media reporting of Active Travel
Road Collision Reporting Guidelines
Cycling Safety and Inequalitites in Bogotá

Cyclists, e-scotters users, pedestrians and cars along the Sein in Paris

Listen to the ATA Podcast

School Streets July 1, 2024
Dr. Tom Cohen, Reader in Transport at Westminster University and member of the Active Travel Academy interviews Dr. Asa Thomas, who recently completed his PhD research with the Active Travel Academy. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/school-streets-ata-podcast-20242/. Show notes by Professor Rachel Aldred and podcast editing by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories. Hosted […]
Accessibility and Urban Design January 25, 2024
Dr. Harrie Larrington-Spencer, Research Fellow at the Active Travel Academy, interviews Professor Aimi Hamraie, who directs the Critical Design Lab, and whose research focuses on disability, accessibility, and urban design. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/accessibility-and-urban-design-ata-podcast-20241/. Show notes by Professor Rachel Aldred and podcast editing by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories. Hosted on […]
Queering Cartographic Methods July 6, 2023
Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport and Director of the Active Travel Academy, interviews Ellis Fannin, a PhD researcher at the University of Manchester, about their research on queering cartographic methods. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/queering-cartographic-methods/. Thanks to Ellis and to our ATA interns, Rob Coates (who prepared and edited the audio files) […]
Barriers to Black men cycling in London June 1, 2023
Dulce Pedroso, PhD researcher at the Active Travel Academy, interviews Akwesi Osei of Possible about his research into barriers to Black men cycling in London. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/barriers-to-black-men-cycling-in-london-ata-podcast-3/. Thanks to Akwesi and Dulce and to our ATA interns, Rob Coates (who prepared and edited the audio files) and James Stevenson […]
Planning for Trans Futures May 2, 2023
Professor Rachel Aldred, Director of the Active Travel Academy, interviews Matt C. Smith of Brighton University about their research into trans in planning, and trans experiences in the city. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/planning-for-trans-futures-ata-podcast-20232/ Thanks to Matt and to our interns, Rob Coates (who prepared and edited the audio files), James Stevenson […]
Neurodiversity in the City April 4, 2023
Professor Rachel Aldred, Director of the Active Travel Academy, interviews Dr. Therese Kenna of University College Cork about her research into experiences of neurodivergence in the city. Show notes and transcript link available at https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/ata/new-ata-podcast-season/ Thanks to Therese and to our interns, Rob Coates (who prepared and edited the audio files) and James Stevenson (who […]
Still I Ride 2: How women of colour are challenging discourses in and through cycling December 7, 2021
Cycling has always been about more than its health, economic and environmental benefits. The rise of women cyclists coincided with the age of the new, educated and independent woman. The early moral outcry over women’s cycling outfits and alleged damage to their feminine physical features may seem ridiculous today yet cycling continues to be linked […]
Still I Ride 1: How women of colour are challenging discourses in and through cycling December 7, 2021
So, in a culture, where the car is really dominant, being a cyclist can make it feel like you’re a second class citizen. And if you already feel invisible in society, because of your identity, because of who you are or the way you look, it may seem odd that you would opt for more […]
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 […]

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