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Active Travel Summit By Jo Somerset

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Post date 27/03/2019
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ACTIVE TRAVEL SUMMIT – March 2019 I attended the Active Travel Summit organized by Labour Cycles on 16th March. Despite the London-centric nature of the conference (raised eyebrows that we’d come from Manchester), there were some points that it’s worth Walk Ride GM considering. Firstly, Sadiq Khan has a 20-year target for 80% […]

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Report of the recent Cycling Cultures: Insights and Methods conference by Jo Somerset

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Post date 09/03/2019
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CYCLING CULTURES: INSIGHTS AND METHODS – MMU, 14th February 2019, by Jo Somerset I couldn’t resist a conference on ‘gendered cycling cultures’ at Manchester Metropolitan University last month. Although it used academic words like autoethnography (researching from personal experience) the day was peppered with interesting perspectives and fascinating facts, dealing with themes of women’s ‘physical […]