Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
One of the things I love about doing this blog is I get to share what makes me happy. Many things make me happy, for example: Riding bikes. Exploring the places we live and work. Making new friends and building community. Sharing smiles and positive vibes. Rocking tunes. Combining all these elements into one event …
Continue reading “Drum & Ba(da)ss on the bike: Public DJ (and mobile crowd) on two-wheels”
Working with bikes in creative ways is an ongoing theme for this blog. So is education. So it makes me particularly happy when I see these two passions combined. Previously, I’ve posted on a wide range of bike art projects, like: Dissident Bicycles (5 part art series) @Artcrank makes me happy The Adelaide Bike Art …
Dear Quivering Bee, I am a community bike rider and researcher living in Brisbane Australia. I live with a gorgeous kelpie named Zoe and a bike named Kissime and we have spent many happy years riding bikes together. I have a blog and we regularly post about dogs and bikes, see for example: A Dog’s …
Being a posthumanist, embodied researcher means that I think and do things a little differently from mainstream ‘traditional’ researchers. But I am not the only posthumanist researcher. It is very exciting to see increasing more scholars thinking, doing and writing posthumanism project. My work comes under Posthumanism and more specifically New Materialisms. New Materialisms has …
Continue reading “New Materialisms and Mountain Bike Trails”
I was cruising the internerd (internet) looking for some bike-related teaching and learning resources, which I do from time to time … and see what and how teachers and subjects might use bicycles in learning environments – whether primary, secondary or at uni. Keep in mind, this is using bikes IN the classroom (like to …
Continue reading “Educational Case Study. Lewis and Clark Reloaded: The 3,041-Mile Bike Trail.”
An inspiring good news story from Myanmar where bicycles really are creating more positive social and environmental change! Recently, I came across an article written by Phoe Wah in The Myanmar Times detailing a local tech entrepreneur’s social enterprise which uses global bike-sharing surplus to get more rural Myanmar kids to school. Fantastic! For more: …
Continue reading “Myanmar: Less Walk – Excess global bike share surplus get kids to school”
Books are good. Bikes are great. Books with bikes are better. Books with bikes that help people are the best. Books with bikes that help people have difficult conversations are the best. Oli and the pink bike is a short story book for children about alcohol feotal syndrome. What is the story about? This UK …
Innovative technology is increasingly being applied to bike riding to address some very pressing issues, such as increasing bike participation and rider safety. Previously I’ve posted on the pioneering work of Griffith researchers working on the world’s first ‘thought-control’ bicycle for spinal injury rehab (see more here). This story details Dr. Dinesh Palipana who is …
My PhD looks at how bicycles feature in West African girls’ access to secondary education. This means I read widely about gender, geography, aid and development, education, mobility and innovative research methods. I’ve been reviewing what has been done so far to help girls get to and from schools on bikes – and this has …
March is a busy month! Around the world, March is known as ‘Women’s Month’. The last few posts have shared some events that celebrate female achievements and raise awareness for women, gender and social justice issues, such as Women’s History Month (Royal Australia Historical Society, Dr Katie Phillips (USA) and Dr Kat Jungnickel (UK) as …