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Dear All, Thank you for your kind welcomes! I am really interested in keeping our diverse minds in vaguely the same place and what better place than an international group? I look forward to hearing from you over the next few months - do let me know what you are researching - it's all fascinating to me and slowly coalesces into giant pictures... Regards, Nick Dr Nicholas Marks | Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of Humanities and Social Science University of Brighton Mithras House Moulsecoomb BN2 4AT Direct Line: 07854 603523 Email: [log in to unmask] https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/ ________________________________ From: Cycling and Trauma <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Simon Cook <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 4:52:25 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Hello Welcome indeed Nick. Great to have you with us. And thanks for sharing your work and reigniting conversations. This sounds really fascinating. I will be sure to explore further. I am (still) trying to secure funding for a bigger research project ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside the university. ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd Welcome indeed Nick. Great to have you with us. And thanks for sharing your work and reigniting conversations. This sounds really fascinating. I will be sure to explore further. I am (still) trying to secure funding for a bigger research project into post-collision cycling practices but the pilot project phase did keep coming back around to bicycles, cycling materials and tweaking/modification as sources of both trauma and therapy following cycling collisions. I’ll be sure to engage further with your work to help me progress this thinking. Best, Simon Dr Simon Cook (he/him) | Senior Lecturer Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences | Birmingham City University Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Message me on Microsoft Teams<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:[log in to unmask];!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!eVK0ZSnL9Sugo9cIS42Ay-fvAdShXwayxtTgi0G1g1LdUWJR1M6iBoqKy3b4aLDArb9QcW0RIWPvQ1pHl-oRpR27uzv6$> Twitter: @SimonIanCook<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.twitter.com/SimonIanCook__;!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!eVK0ZSnL9Sugo9cIS42Ay-fvAdShXwayxtTgi0G1g1LdUWJR1M6iBoqKy3b4aLDArb9QcW0RIWPvQ1pHl-oRpbJwRdOw$> Website: www.jographies.wordpress.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.jographies.wordpress.com/__;!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!eVK0ZSnL9Sugo9cIS42Ay-fvAdShXwayxtTgi0G1g1LdUWJR1M6iBoqKy3b4aLDArb9QcW0RIWPvQ1pHl-oRpVF5sS3E$> Address: SCT132 BCU, Westbourne Road, Birmingham, B15 3TN Recent Publications: Cook, S. (2023) ‘Running with a bag: encumbrance, materiality and rhythm’<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14649365.2022.2052169__;!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!eVK0ZSnL9Sugo9cIS42Ay-fvAdShXwayxtTgi0G1g1LdUWJR1M6iBoqKy3b4aLDArb9QcW0RIWPvQ1pHl-oRpSpby0h5$> Social & Cultural Geography, 24(7): pp.1104-1122 Cook, S. and Larsen, J. (2022) Geographies of running cultures and practices<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gec3.12660__;!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!eVK0ZSnL9Sugo9cIS42Ay-fvAdShXwayxtTgi0G1g1LdUWJR1M6iBoqKy3b4aLDArb9QcW0RIWPvQ1pHl-oRpSv6Yfv5$>. Geography Compass, 16(10). e12660 Cook, S., Stevenson, L., Aldred, R., Kendall, M. and Cohen, T. (2022) More than walking and cycling: what is ‘active travel’?<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X22002025__;!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!eVK0ZSnL9Sugo9cIS42Ay-fvAdShXwayxtTgi0G1g1LdUWJR1M6iBoqKy3b4aLDArb9QcW0RIWPvQ1pHl-oRpfDMaMFn$> Transport Policy, 126: pp.151-161 Bell, S.L. and Cook, S. (2021) ‘Healthy Mobilities’<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/transfers/11/2/trans110207.xml__;!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!eVK0ZSnL9Sugo9cIS42Ay-fvAdShXwayxtTgi0G1g1LdUWJR1M6iBoqKy3b4aLDArb9QcW0RIWPvQ1pHl-oRpdVjkCC5$> Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 11(2): pp.98-108 Further publications available here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jographies.wordpress.com/my-work/publications/__;!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!eVK0ZSnL9Sugo9cIS42Ay-fvAdShXwayxtTgi0G1g1LdUWJR1M6iBoqKy3b4aLDArb9QcW0RIWPvQ1pHl-oRpS00Xutk$>. From: Cycling and Trauma <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of James Brittain Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 1:48 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Hello Hi Nick, It is so exciting to hear from you. Your approach and research/work are incredibly interesting. While in a diversified direction, I, too, am fascinated by trauma against the backdrop of cycling and how professional within road cycling have been impacted by, yet engage in experience to 'fuel' their training and career. Entering into the final years of his life, inflicted by an increasingly deteriorating and failing body, Marx (1993: 156) penned that “there is only one effective antidote for mental suffering, and that is physical pain”. While this figure could not be further removed from the world of sport, the insight expressed by the infamous philosopher may hold sway against the backdrop of those engaged in professional road cycling. Noted as one of the most physically demanding sports in the world, road cycling is sadistically revered not only for the corporeal toll waged upon the rider but also the cerebral mountains that need to be conquered to enter the ranks of the professional peloton (Nimmerichter, 2018; see also Dekker, 2017; Hamilton and Coyle, 2012). Building a longitudinal sociological study of professional road cyclists in Europe and North America, I have been interrogating the subject of suffering as emotionally experienced and physically performed by those within the sport. While important work has been done on the structural and physiological dynamics of suffering in professional road cycling, there is a void when concerning a broader examination beyond the hyper-masculine vibrato of ‘pushing through the pain’ or the critical management of athletic bodies by those in places of industry and power (see Case, 2015; Gains, 2015; MaMahan, 2015; Newill, 2015; Abdel-Shehid and Kalman-Lamb, 2011; Burstyn, 2009; Hardie, 2009; Gilley, 2006). What distinguishes this research is the interest and attention to examining the weight that emotional duress has on a rider’s capacity (or desire) to enter into self-imposed suffering. From a sociological perspective, the work seeks to both augment and fill a gulf within the academy and literature on professional road cycling (and sport in general). Through the employment of qualitative research, the work has the potential to holistically broaden an understanding of how and why some cyclists may endure the pain associated with their profession and how temporary physical suffering might be an anecdote employed to offset deeper emotional wounds. So great to hear from you, Nick! Welcome to the group!!! Peace, Jim James J. Brittain, PhD (he/him) Professor, Department of Sociology & Social and Political Thought Graduate Program Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia Canada B4P-2R6 Office Phone: (902) 585-1292 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [cid:image001.png@01DA5465.DB5DF950] ________________________________ From: Cycling and Trauma <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Nicholas Marks <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Sent: January 31, 2024 9:11 AM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Hello CAUTION: This email comes from outside Acadia. Verify the sender and use caution with any requests, links or attachments. Dear All, New to this group and fairly new to academia. I finished my PhD in 2020 looking at the effectiveness of repairing and refurbishing bicycles on unpicking experiences of psychological trauma (i.e. 'recovery'). Thesis was summarised in this paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13357<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13357__;!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!eVK0ZSnL9Sugo9cIS42Ay-fvAdShXwayxtTgi0G1g1LdUWJR1M6iBoqKy3b4aLDArb9QcW0RIWPvQ1pHl-oRpZHIYD6d$>. I work within 'actor-network theory' as an approach that precisely matches my sensibilities as a bike mechanic. I am now working on the Elevate project - https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/ - as researcher, instructor and mechanic. I don't think this group is as active as Cycling and Society but it seems perhaps a better forum for the promotion of bicycles as therapeutic objects - in use (of course) but also as sites of contestation and co-operation, fettling, mess, spectra of 'working' or 'not working'-ness, ideation, and all sorts of other interesting things! 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