This page contains slides from presentations (where available and permission has been given to share them) from the 2026 Cycling and Society symposium in Lund.
Session 1: Changing Discourses of Cycling
Session Moderator: Alexander Paulsson
- Igor Radun — Balancing Prevention and Blame in Media and Police Reporting of Cyclist Crashes
- Jarvis Suslowicz — 2 Streets 2 Furious: Evaluating the Potential for Trial Street- Reallocation Projects to Break Political Deadlock (pdf)
- Emma Lawlor et al – Cycle Nation Communities: Process Evaluation and Real-World Implementation of a Community-Based Cycling Intervention (pdf)
- Nick Davies et al. — What we learnt from Cycling and Society 2025: how bringing mobility experts together helped us understand Glasgow’s progress to become a cycling city (pdf)
Session 2: Cycling Infrastructure,Space and Design
Session Moderator:Till Koglin
- Georg Krüger et al. — Bicycle Zones—How Do We Move Forward? (pdf)
- Heather Allen — Understanding bike lane opposition in small town Canada: A communicative case study (pdf)
- Martin Larsson et al — More space – for better or worse (pdf)
- Jana Kühl — Inviting Infrastructures:The Semiotics and Affects of Cycling Transitions in Urban Space
Session 3: Mapping, Knowledge Production and Visibility
Session Moderator: Jens Alm
- Eleanor Herring et al. — Walking, Wheeling and Cycling: Mapping Inter-Connected Layers of Power in Glasgow (pdf)
- Pauline Münch & James Bonner – Cycling Rivers: Critical Encounters between Water and Cycling (pdf)
- Meyke Roosink et al. — Exploring equity in transdisciplinary collaborations, on a DUO bicycle!? (pdf)
Session 4: Recreation, Lifestyle and Cycling Practices
Session Moderator: Nick Davies
- Dimitri Marincek — An analysis of the barriers and permeabilities between recreational and utility cycling through social practice theory (pdf)
- Anna Barrero et al — Is e-biking exercise or cheating? An experimental study estimating minutes of moderate physical activity. (pdf)
Session 5: Cycling, Embodiment, Rhythm and Flow
Session Moderator: Graeme Sherriff
- Annika Otto & Chiara Vitrano – Recalibrating Temporal Demands: Time and Power in Micromobility- based Delivery Work
Session 6: Mobility Justice, Identity and Inclusion
Session Moderator: James Bonner
- Ashton R. Rohmer — Moving Beyond Mobility Justice: Centering Modal Identity in the Pursuit of Just Streets
- Marcin Krassowski et al. — Cargo tribe. Experimenting with belonging in Poznań
- Konstantin Ponomarev & Jana Kuehl — Power of identity: chance for cycling mobility in car industry region (pdf)
- Ségolène Bauduin — Influence of the social environment and perceived level of mobility-related cultural factors on the likelihood of regular cycling in Wallonia and Brussels (pdf)
Session 7: Activism, Engagement and Collective Action
Session Moderator: Annika Otto
- Igor Radun — Activist and Scientist: When Do Dual Commitments Become Problematic? (pdf)
- Annika Wappelhorst — Communicating the Power of Presence – Critical Mass in Berlin, Paris and Stockholm
- Lukas Junghanns — Redefining power through activism – Lessons from the Critical Mass movement in Helsinki
- Christoph Fink – Performing expertise: the curated public identities of cycling advocates’
Session 8: Technology, Data and Futures of Cycling
Session Moderator: Vera Diogo
- Karin Edberg et al – Charged Mobility: Practices of Storing and Handling Batteries in Bicycle Use (pdf)
- Sigrid E. Glomdal – Cargo bikes: usage and potential (pdf)
Session 9: Cycling in Context: Peace and Conflict
Session Moderator: Till Koglin
- Johan A. Lundin et al – The Spatial Mobility of Bicycles in Interwar Youth Politics:The 1930s Scandinavian case (pdf)
- David Mitchell – Cycling and peacebuilding after conflict: making the connections (pdf)
Session 10: Gender, Care and Everyday Mobility Politics
Session Moderator: James Bonner
- Maria Lindmäe – “Stupid sl*t, do you want your child to be killed?” Vélomobilities of carelessness and women’s everyday tactics for countering prejudices of good mothering
- James Green et al. – Perceptions and barriers to cycling and e-bike use among parents and older adults in under- resourced communities (pdf)
- Paula Rodríguez Gisbert – Family Experiences of Travelling with Children on Cargo and Electric Cargo Bikes (pdf)
- Lucie Šroglová — Between Joy and Fear for One’s Life: Emotional Geographies of Women Cyclists in Prague (pdf)
Session 11: Policy, Governance and Institutional Change
Session Moderator: Jens Alm
- Russell Cannon — Transport policy as health policy: a multiple streams analysis of policy change in London (pdf)
Session 12: Power within! How our bodies can empower collective action. Somatic session by Vera Diogo
Session 13: From public engagement to air pollution
Session Moderator: Alexander Paulsson
- Lena Levin – Cycling test in Region Kronoberg: Citizen participation for more bicycling in rural areas
- Monica Scigliano – The role of public engagement in street space reallocation acceptability (pdf)
- Malte Rothhämel – Power or Pollution? Air pollution vs. cycling – a multidisciplinary challenge (pdf)
Session 14: Is Active Travel a useful term? What are the implications for promoting walking, wheeling and cycling to different audiences?
Panel discussion by Graeme Sherriff, Nick Davies with James Bonner, Karin Edberg and Jana Kühl
Session 15: Power, Systems and Societal Transformation
Session Moderator: Nick Davies
- Elias Isaksson — Degrowth Bicycle Planning Karin Edberg et al. — Pedal powered frictions: co-thinking cycling as a transformer and maintainer of power relations
- Malte Rothhämel – Power and efficiency – a question for cyclists and infrastructure (pdf)
- Till Koglin — Automobility and mobility justice (pdf)
Session 16: Who Gets to Cycle? Barriers, Inclusion and Mobility Justice
Session Moderator: Graeme Sherriff
- Daniel Piatkowski – Why don ́t teens ride bikes? Exploratory findings and a research agenda (pdf)
- Dag Balkmar – “We never stop cycling”: how bike schools support disabled people in overcoming barriers to cycling (pdf)
- Judith Rötgers and Jana Kühl – Examining power in motion: Methodological approaches in cycling research to the interplay of social, media, and spatial power (pdf)
- Christina M. Rutka – “Heidelberg’s Bikesharing under Scrutiny: Subjective Barriers and Local Approaches for Greater Mobility Justice”
Session 17: PLAYGROUND: What Can We Learn from Bike-Messenger Alleycats
Session Moderator: Annika Otto
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