Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
We are very lucky for this month’s New Materialisms (NM) Special Interest Group (SIG) to have Geraldine Harris (Griffith Uni, PhDer) presenting aspects of her experience of working with feminist New Materialisms in child-centered leadership and more specifically, some visualizations she has created based on her emerging data analysis. Geraldine has extensive professional experince as …
As regular readers of this blog know, I am undertaking my bicycle PhD with Griffith University, School of Professional Studies. I am using Feminist New Materialisms (FNM) to explore how bicycles enable or constrain rural African girls’ access to education. I need to better understand FNM (which is essentially Quantum Physics applied to Social Science/Education). …
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The theoretical framing I am using for my bicycle-education PhD is feminist New Materialisms (fNM). Actually, it is more than just a philosophical perspective and as a doctoral researcher, I have to understand this ethico-onto-epistemological approach super well in order to apply it to my PhD. I am lucky that my supervisor Dr Sherilyn Lennon …
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I got an email yesterday saying that my abstract submission for the 10th Annual New Materialisms Conference of Reconfiguring Higher Education has been accepted! Woohoo! This conference will be held at University of the Western Cape (Cape Town, South Africa) from 2-4 December 2019. This is great news! I have been working furiously on my …
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Lately, I’ve been craving extra time and space to explore New Materialist more generatively, At uni, the time is limited and often, more senior academics take-over theory session. .. and the HDRers still left with answers. So instead of relying on supervisors, I decided to invite five trusted New Materialist and Posthumanist PhD friends for …
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Earlier this year, I was invited by The Ediths to participate in a new project they are undertaking called: A feminist initiative towards reading with reciprocity. The Ediths are a feminist interdisciplinary research collective based out of Edith Cohen University (WA, AUS). I’ve been an active member of The Edith’s for over a year now as we have crossover …
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This page is a showcase of my teaching and learning approaches in support of my 2021 Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching (GAET) – Sessional Academic Staff application. *Update for the reader: I was successful in this application! I have been awarded GAET 2021 Sessional Teacher of the Year Award! I attend the official ceremony …
If you are visiting this blog for the first time – Hello! And a very warm welcome back to the regular reader. A warning before diving in here: this post is a break from my usual content that celebrates the myriad ways bicycles create positive social and environmental change. My current bicycles-for-education research puts to …
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ICQI 2021:Â Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry ICQI…..you know….only the largest ……. and most respected qualitative research conference IN THE WORLD! … and with all the biggest names! My PhD supervisor said I should consider submitting an abstract for this conference. Doing so is a VERY BIG DEAL – this congress is the pinnacle in my …
Recently, I attended a very unique opportunity: a 4-part virtual Geography, Art and Memory Workshop co-convened by Griffith’s Centre for Social and Cultural Research Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro, Dr Diti Bhattacharya, Dr Kaya Barry and Prof. Barabra Pini. As a New Materialisms community bike researcher working in Sierra Leone, my work is embedded with post(de)coloniality, …
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