This page contains the presentations from the 2025 Cycling and Society Symposium in Glasgow.
Session 1A
Cycling Beyond the Frame: Identities and Methods
- Claire Pelgrims (ULB Brussels)
Modo Aesthetico: Investigating Gender and Sensory Experiences in Cycling (pdf) - Maria Lindmäe (Tallinn University)
Affective Vélomobilities of Care through the Lens of Post-Socialist Ideologies and Urbanism: Methodological Notes (pdf) - Rachel Aldred (University of Westminster)
Dulce Pedroso, Matt C. Smith, Jerònia Cubells
Cycling and Heteronormativity: Queer and Trans Perspectives on Cycling (pdf) - Alexandra Kinman, Jérôme Laviolette, Kevin Manaugh, Owen Waygood (McGill University)
New Ways to Think About Cycling: Insights from Moral Foundations Theory (pdf) - Jerome Laviolette, Kevin Manaugh, Owen Waygood (McGill University)
If you don’t cycle, but your neighbours do, are you more likely to support cycling policy? (pdf)
Session 1B
Infrastructure in Practice: Data, Design, and Policy Gaps
- Graeme Hawker (University of Strathclyde)
How many cyclists does it take to change a power system? (pdf) - Xavier Delclòs Alió (URV Catalunya)
“So, why don’t you build it?” Social, political and administrative barriers to cycling infrastructure in a medium-sized, low-cycling city (pdf) - Eric Zhaoqi Zhou (Oxford University)
De-scribing bicycle lanes in Shenzhen through users’ practice (pdf) - Carol Sobral, Lynn H. Kaack (Hertie School)
Estimating Cycling Mode Share in European Cities (pdf) - Anna Takayasu, Hasan Can Buldu, Panagiotis Tzouras, Victoria Dahmen, (Technical University of Munich)
A Cross-City Comparative Study on Road Network Quality and Multimodal Perceived Safety: Athens and Munich (pdf)
Session 2A
From Bikeability, to Bike Bus to BMX – preparing children for independent mobility by bike.
- Christopher Johnson (Cycling Scotland)
Some reflections on the present and future of Cycling Scotland’s Bikeability programme (pdf) - Gareth Johnson, Camille Warrington, Jo Wright, Katherine Cory (Shawlands Bike Bus)
Why bike buses are not primarily about cycling (pdf) - Neil Morrison (Scottish Cycling)
Rock Up and Ride (pdf) - Benjamin O. Afuye, Seán Fortune, James Paton, and Ruth Van Ry (Sustrans)
Application of the photovoice qualitative research method on active travel infrastructure among young school children in Scotland (pdf)
Session 2B
Safe Streets, Safer Stories: Rethinking Risk and Responsibility
- Jarvis Suslowicz (NTNU)
Cyclist Run Over by Car? Analysis of Road Traffic Collisions Involving Cyclists Reported in Norwegian Newspapers (pdf) - Jamie Furlong (University of Westminster)
Impacts of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods on number, diversity and safety of cyclists. - Valentin Jeanjean, Katharine Brough (Cycling Scotland)
Cycling Scotland – Campus Internship Programme (pdf) - Jie Gao, Yajuan Deng, Qi Wu
Psychological stress of cycling: trip segment, attitudes and road environment (Online)
Session 3A
Planning Micromobility and Cycling: Behaviour, Infrastructure and Policy Tensions
- Hugh Bartling (DePaul University)
Equitable and Effective Bike Share Operation: A Comparative Study of Dock Rebalancing (pdf) - Kassandra Moosbrugger, Cindy Gray, Emma Lawlor, Jason Gill, Ria Dunkley
Gearing up towards a gender-equitable cycling future: Participatory Systems Mapping as a tool to explore the gender gap in cycling (pdf) (Online presentation) - Pete Sykes,Dilum Dissanayake (University of Birmingham) Margaret Bell (Newcastle University)
Emerging clashes between policies in bicycle infrastructure, e-cargo bike design and last mile delivery initiatives (pdf) - Lauren Baker, David Crundall, Petya Ventsislavova Petrova, Elizabeth Sheppard (Nottingham Trent University)
Micromobility in the Midlands: Nottingham’s Complex Relationship with E-Bike and E-Scooter Sharing (pdf) - Anna Barrero, James A Green, Louise Foley, Yvonne Ryan-Fogarty, Catherine Woods, Colin Fitzpatrick, Cathal Walsh (University of Limerick, Trinity College Dublin)
ISCycle: Examining the effect of an ebike loan intervention on transport behaviour in an urban Irish context (pdf)
Session 3B
Cycling Perspectives and the World: Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Intersections
- Mia Rafalowicz-Campbell (Sheffield Hallam University)
Mapping Embodied Mobilities: A Digital Ethnography of Active Travel Inclusion in South Yorkshire (online slides) - Pauline Münch, Timothy Moss (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Cycle of Infrastructure: Pedaling through Berlin’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures (pdf) - Cyrille Médard de Chardon, Umberto Sconfienza (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research: LISER)
Defining modal shear: A conceptual framework revealing hidden inequities within mobility spaces (online slides) - Justin Spinney (University of West of England)
Re:cycling silos – how could/ should the future of cycling intersect with the quadricyle? (pdf) - Martin Zeilinger, Andrew Bricker (Abertay University)
Rethinking ‘Interdisciplinarity’ for Cycling Scholarship (pdf)
Session 4A
Panel: Shifting Gears Transformative Pathways in Cycle Logistics and E-Mobility
Chairs: Annika Otto (Lund University), Alexander Paulsson (Lund University), Jens Alm (Lund University)
- Introduction: Annika Otta (Lund University)
Panel Debate: Shifting Gears – Transformative Pathways in Cycle Logistics and E-Micromobility (pdf)
The following panels gave verbal contributions to the panel:
- Noel Cass (University of Leeds)
Overview of ‘autonomobility’ as a counterpoint to automobility, focusing on distributional equity and socialized co-movement. - Graeme Sherriff (University of Salford
Positioning e-cargo bikes as a niche technology within a multilevel perspective framework. - Annika Otto (Lund University), Alexander Paulsson (Lund University), Jens Alm (Lund University)
The dual role of cycle logistics in sustaining economic productivity while aspiring toward socio-ecological transformation. - Karen Gregory (University of Edinburgh)
The lived experiences of gig economy couriers and the precarities they face in the context of cycle logistics and private e-mobility.
Session 5A
Inclusive Journeys: Age, Ability, and Access in Everyday Cycling
- Carol Kachadoorian (dblTilde CORE)
Cycling and Public Transit: How do we design bike-with-transit so that older people can continue to cycle? (pdf) - Fiona Crawford, David McArthur (University of Glasgow)
Understanding the heterogeneity in cycling behaviour of disabled people (pdf) - Caroline Hood (Nestrans)
Cycling Towards a Social Good: Community Projects in North East Scotland (pdf) - Maria Bissett, Emma Lawlor (University of Glasgow)
A rapid review of cities that have successfully integrated active travel and mass-transit systems to enable multimodal journeys (pdf) - Nicole E. Odell, Whitney Knollenberg, Jane Harrison & J. Aaron Hipp (NC State University)
In the policy peloton: The role of bicycle and pedestrian advisory committees in local decision-making (pdf) - Dr Kerry Griffiths (Cycling UK)
The Inclusive Cycling Experience: best practice in engaging disabled people in cycling for active travel (pdf)
Session 5B
Cycling for Health and Healing: Interventions, Legacies, and Lived Experience
- Deirdre Harrington (University of Strathclyde)
Are legacies on transport and recreational cycling from Cycling World Championships possible? A transdisciplinary view (pdf) - Lauren Schuck, Esther Walker (Outride)
Call for More Interventions! Scoping Review of Cycling Literature on social, emotional, and cognitive health (pdf) - Emma Lawlor (University of Glasgow), Fernanda Gabler Trisotti, Cindy Gray, Jason Gill
Supporting cycling in Glasgow – a feasibility study of a multi-component community-based cycling intervention (Cycle Nation) (pdf) - Chrissie Lane (UHI)
The therapeutic benefits of cycling ebikes in nature for people recovering from cancer (pdf) - Callum Martin, Jess Acton, Adam Doneo (Sustrans)
Large-scale aggregation of automatic cycle counter data to evaluate the impact of Places for Everyone active travel infrastructure in Scotland (pdf) - James Green, Allison Biamonte, Chloe McGowan, Louise Foley (University of Limerick)
Exploring the meaning and function of daily ebike trips during a behaviour change intervention: a data-prompted interview study (pdf)
Session 6A
Cycling Landscapes: Leisure, Care, and Everyday Adventure
- Christopher Greenwood, Nick Davies (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Exploring of the Rise and Potential of Bikepacking in Scotland (pdf) - Madura Thivanka Pathirana (Edith Cowan university)
Youth Cycling Tourism on the Sunshine Coast: Exploring Impacts and Sustainability for Future Generations (pdf) (Online) - Albert Arias-SANS (University of Barcelona)
Mapping controversies on mountain biking in the Collserola Natural Park (Barcelona) (pdf) - Katherine Cory (Women on Wheels)
Mobility Mothers – what a city can learn from mothers on bicycles (pdf) - James Bonner (University of Strathclyde)
Cycling as a methodological practice of mobility opening up relationships and encounters with place (pdf)
Session 6B
Pathways and Participation: Rethinking Infrastructure
- Emmanuel Enyeribe Ege, Benjamine Afuye, Olayinka Sunday, Clement Ajayi and Olanrewaju Peter,
An Assessment of the Availability and Potential of Active Travel Infrastructure Between Herbeth Macauley Junction, University of Lagos, and Ilaje Jety in Bariga, Lagos (pdf) (Online presentation) - Segolene Bauduin (UCLouvain)
Cultural factors and cycle use: a narrative review and exploratory questionnaire (pdf) - Greg Rybarczyk, Alyssa Sklar (University of Michigan)
Bridging the Modal Gap: E-bicycle Integration Strategies for Car-Dependent Regions – Lessons from Metro-Detroit, Michigan (pdf) - Esther Walker, Lauren Schuck (Outride)
Increasing access to cycling among middle school youth in the United States (pdf)