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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: European Cycling Research Network Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:19:55 +0100 From: Dave Horton <[log in to unmask]> To: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list <[log in to unmask]> CC: Paul Rosen <[log in to unmask]> Hi All For information, and as I mentioned to people at our recent meeting in Chester, this is the call for potential partners in a Europe-wide network of cycling researchers I put out a month or two ago (excuse the self-promotion - I was trying to sound convincing!). I've had loads of responses, and am trying to deal with them this afternoon. I'll post anything I consider relevant to this group. Hopefully, some of the people who replied to this call are now on this email group - if so, welcome! Ben, I hear you're the new star of Radio 4! Nice one! Cycling researcher makes national radio! Dave Dave Horton is a sociologist based in the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK. His overall research interest centres around cultures of sustainability, those emerging ways of life compatible with the search for sustainability. His primary current research interest is cycling. He is a founder member of the Cycling and Society Research Group. Recent publications include: Horton, Dave (2006): ‘Environmentalism and the Bicycle’, /Environmental Politics/, 15(1): 41-58. Horton, Dave (2006): 'Demonstrating Environmental Citizenship? A Study of Everyday Life Among Green Activists', in Derek Bell and Andrew Dobson (eds), /Environmental Citizenship/, pp. 127-50, Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press. Horton, Dave (2004): 'Local Environmentalism and the Internet', /Environmental Politics/, 13(4): 735-54. Horton, Dave (2003): 'Green Distinctions: the Performance of Identity Among Environmental Activists', in Bronislaw Szerszynski, Wallace Heim and Claire Waterton (eds), /Nature Performed: Environment, Culture and Performance/, pp. 63-77, Oxford: Blackwell. Horton, Dave (2002): 'Lancaster Critical Mass: Does it Exist?', in Chris Carlsson (ed.), /Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration/, pp. 60-7, Oakland, California: AK Press. The Cycling and Society Research Group is a network of international, though predominantly UK-based, scientists with a primary research interest in cycling. It was formed in 2004 following a symposium at Lancaster University, ‘Cycling and the Social Sciences’. In 2005, the group held its second symposium, ‘Culture, Community and Policy - Cycling in the 21^st Century’, at Cardiff University. The third symposium will take place at the University of Chester in April 2006. Papers from the first symposium are among contributions to a forthcoming collection, /Cycling and Society/ (eds Dave Horton, Paul Rosen and Peter Cox, Ashgate: Aldershot). The group runs an email discussion list (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cycling-and-society.html), and has a temporary website (http://www.bolton.ac.uk/staff/jp10/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage). Dr Horton is keen to contribute to the development of a European network of cycling research. Against the global context of climate change, impending peak oil and the urgent need for expansion in sustainable mobilities, he envisages such a network pursuing a programme of cross-cultural interdisciplinary research investigating both the current situation of, and future prospects for, velomobilities across different societies. Contact details: Dr Dave Horton Visiting Research Fellow Centre for Mobilities Research Department of Sociology Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YL UK Tel. +44(0)1524 845448 Email. [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>