IAA Grant for Active Travel Project

IAA Grant for Active Travel Project

Dr Peter Hart has been awarded a £15k Impact Acceleration Account award for a joint project with Dr Morgan Campbell (School of Earth & Environment). In 2022 they co-produced and delivered a tool kit with young people in Leeds and Dr Kate Cameron (School of Music) to capture young people’s experiences of their neighbourhood, including the places most meaningful to them, and how they travel there. Despite being key users of public transport, young people’s voices are often missing from conversations about transport and city planning. Originally a partnership with Leeds City Council, they wanted young people to be heard in decisions about how to make Leeds a more active city. Therefore, the young went through a process of identifying barriers to active forms of travel, and who they would need to engage to remove those barriers.

This IAA grant will allow the work to be replicated in another area, Hartlepool, this time delivered by youth workers rather than researchers. Researchers will observed the sessions between youth workers and young people, which will allow them to revise the toolkit. They will be launching a new version of the toolkit, along with training resources, at a conference in February 2025.

The original toolkit toolkit is available here: https://icy.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2023/02/ACTIVE-TRAVEL-TOOLKIT-Final.pdf

(July 2024)