Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
During this holiday break, I have sorely missed our New Materialisms (NM) Special Interest Group (SIG) monthly meetings. NM is the approach I am using for my bicycle PhD (more specifically Quantum Physicist Karen Barad’s Agential Realism). I thrive on sharing ideas, resources and experiences with this incredible group. In November, we had our last …
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Happy New Year all! I hope you have been enjoying your time on and off the bike – and gearing up for another productive year! Regular readers know that BCC is not your average mainstream cycling blog ….. it is anything but! For my first post of 2021, I am revisiting this blog’s manifesto and …
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This week I am delivering my final in-progress PhD milestone before submission – the Thesis and Candidature Review Milestone (TCRM). The timing is perfect/necessary/awkward being right at the end of the year and just before holidays! Righto! What is a TCRM? The aim of the TCRM is a ‘final check-in’ to see how the candidate …
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While scouring the internet this week, I came across an article by artist Ian Cheng called Worlding Raga 6: World to live. Initially, it was his bike drawing that caught my eye. I ended up reading the article and appreciated Ian’s whimsical interaction with a flock of bicycles – one of which calls out to …
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The Australia Association for Research in Education (AARE) annual national conference was held in Brisbane this week. I was supposed to be in Cape Town (South Africa) presenting at two conferences: The 2019 New Materialist Reconfigurations of Higher Education Conference (Dec 2-4th 2019)and then straight after that conference Pedagogies in the Wild – the 3rd …
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FreshLines is an annual multi-day symposium run by Griffith HLSS postgraduates for postgraduates. It offers oral presentations, keynote presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and opportunities to network. This event is specifically designed for Griffith HLSS HDRers and is funded jointly by Griffith University’s School of Humanities, Languages & Social Science and the Griffith Centre for Social …
Hooray! My abstract for the upcoming Pedagogies in the Wild Conference has been accepted! This is great news because I already have an abstract accepted for the international 2019 New Materialist Reconfigurations of Higher Education Conference (Dec 2-4th 2019) and this conference follows straight after (4-6th December) and is at the same place – the …
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At some stage in most postgrad programs, students will need to complete an Annotated Bibliography. The style, format, content and purpose of an annotated bibliography differs depending on intent, discipline, timing and approach. I completed an Ann Bib of 15 key feminist New Materialism articles when I reframed my PhD theoretical framework. It was …
Australian Association for Educational Research 26-30 Nov 2023 The University of Melbourne PresentationsRochelle Banks: Culture, Complaint and Confidentiality: Using an autoethnographic lens to explore impacts of sexual harassment in educational institutions. Areej Yousef: “The only real Australians are Aboriginal Australians”: Reconstructing ethnolinguistic identities in Australian classrooms. Nina Ginsberg: Velo-onto-epistemology: Becoming(s)-with Bicycles, Gender, Education and Research. …
This week, I put in an EOI application for Kungullanji’s Summer Program. Regular readers of this blog know that I have been working with Griffith’s Indigenous Research Unit (IRU) and Kungullanji as an Academic Skills Advisor for the last 4 years. But this is the first time I have put in to be a project …