A5019653539- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Older Adults Driving Studies
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Smart Parking Systems Research
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Education and Public Policy
- Urban Development and Societal Issues
Oxford Brookes University
2018-2024
Texas State University
2013-2018
University of Washington
2014-2018
Seattle University
2018
It has been demonstrated that, on their own, both exercise and stimulation from the environment can improve cognitive function well-being in older adults. The combined effect of exercising outdoor psychological is less well studied. aim current study was to investigate an cycling intervention mental health A total 100 adults took part (aged 50-83), 26 which were non-cycling controls, 36 conventional pedal cyclists 38 participants using e-bike (a bike fitted with electric motor provide...
<ns5:p>Background This study aimed to collect information on e-bike and e-scooter use in areas with without (EB) plus (EB+ES) combined share-hire schemes. Methods employed a repeated cross-sectional design. An online survey asking questions about demographics, travel, health was completed by people August September 2023 before the schemes were launched Bristol Leeds (EB), Bradford Sheffield as control sites. A resurvey conducted at same sites one year later, but also Bath Plymouth (EB). We...
Brazilian cities are typically unequal and car dominated, where poorer communities mainly rely on public transport, walking cycling. Yet, understanding the experience of using these modes within specific contexts remains limited. In this paper, we illustrate how 'New Mobilities Paradigm' can contribute to 'Accessibility Turn' in urban research. Focusing low-income 'Cruzeiro-Tronco' neighbourhood Porto Alegre, Brazil, incorporate considerations equity social inclusion by applying Jensen's...
Today’s sociopolitical and economic conditions require adults to engage in informed, culturally sensitive coexistence. Correspondingly, adult educators need design experiences that help prepare learners for cross-cultural collaboration socially responsible careers a global age. Framed through cosmopolitanism situated learning theories, the purpose of this study was investigate learners’ sense development citizenship engagement an innovative itinerant master’s degree program. The...
This paper explores how people aged 50 and over, who were returning to cycling as part of an 8-week health well-being trial, created their own microadventures. Applying a stage model the process adventure qualitative data generated from personal diaries focus groups, we examine older anticipated prepared for microadventures, challenges discoveries they experienced, benefits gained electrically assisted 'e-bikes' can provide further opportunities adventure. We conclude that cycles are mode...
This article explores the potential of ‘Co-Creation’ to develop new understandings neighbourhood disadvantage in collaboration with civil society partners. It argues that there is a growing need for collaborative knowledge production communities carrying vernacular knowledges previously invalidated by dominant epistemologies. The first part undertakes reconceptualisation ‘co-creation’, term usually associated citizen involvement neoliberal contexts, redeveloping it as ‘critical artistic...
Integrated care systems (ICS) in England are partnerships between different health and social organisations, to co-ordinate therefore provide more effective provision. The objective of this article is explore the role 'Voluntary, Community Social Enterprise' (VCSE) sector integrated systems. In particular, paper aims examine recent experiences voluntary responding Covid-19 pandemic, lessons that can be learnt for focuses on case Oxfordshire (UK), using a mixed methods approach included...
This study aimed to test the acceptability, perceptions and short-term impacts of a wayfinding intervention increase active travel among primary school children. used non-randomised, controlled, before after design in four two control schools within Oxfordshire. The was designed with input from parents students informed by COM-B behavioural analysis. It included implementing interactive footpath markings route features, along walking cycling routes, designating car parking locations near...
"Urban environments for healthy ageing – a global perspective." Urban Research & Practice, 13(2), pp. 240–241
The Informal Urban Communities Initiative is a design activism, service learning and research program based in Lomas de Zapallal, an informal urban settlement northern Lima, Peru. initiative focuses on the design, implementation, monitoring evaluation of community-driven interventions built environment and, response to priorities articulated by community members, places particular emphasis integrated, interdisciplinary public green space. It aims effect positive sustainable change build...
This paper focuses on the extent to which everyday travel behaviour in Britain changes relation family responsibilities, and examines how this has altered over past century a half. It is argued that prior mid-twentieth such as increased child-care responsibilities barely influenced modes of transport used for travel, but increasingly later twentieth people adjusted their during formation phases life cycle. In particular, parents young children have become more car-dependent less likely walk...
This paper draws on data from a large UK study that aimed to understand cycling among the older population and how this affected independence, health, wellbeing. Part of involved an ‘e-bike trial’ where participants aged 50 over, who were returning after hiatus, loaned e-bike for eight-week trial period. Pre-trial post-trial cognitive tests participants, reported previously (Leyland et al., 2019), demonstrated e-bikes provide positive benefits function The builds these findings, drawing...
Active travel ("walking and cycling") is promoted because of its benefits to environmental sustainability public health wellbeing. Neighbourhood design, including provision infrastructure for walking cycling, can increase social cohesion positively affect sense belonging pride in the community. This paper investigates experience residents living a suburb "Cycling City" Oxford, UK, who endeavoured walk cycle local journeys. We generated in-depth qualitative insights into regular active...
A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Mental Capacity Act/Mental Legislation: Principles and Practice - Nick Brindle, Tim Branton, Alison Stansfield, Tony Zigmond, RCPsych Publications, 2013, £18.00 (pb), 144 pp. ISBN: 9781908020635 Edited by Rebecca Jacob, Michael Gunn & Anthony Holland £25.00 (hb), 128 9781909726000 Volume 38 Issue 3
Sensory substitution has influenced the design of many tactile visual systems with aim offering aids for blind. This paper focuses on whether a novel electromagnetic vibrotactile display, four by matrix taxels, can serve as an aid dynamic communication visually impaired people. A mixed methods approach was used to firstly assess pattern complexity affected undergraduate participants' perceptive success, and secondly, if participants total score positively correlated their perceived success...