Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.
"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"
We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
07.10.2025 07:18 — 👍 174 🔁 76 💬 6 📌 4
YouTube video by Veronica White
The Farming Futures Cycle Tour: a cycling-based fieldwork adventure
I'm excited to finally share a short video overview of my low-carbon, human-powered research adventure - cycling 2000 miles across England for my PhD fieldwork! Do let me know what you think!
youtu.be/iDPS9EYVxHY
#PhDbyBike
30.09.2025 17:19 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
Come and hear @crpr-exeter.bsky.social PhD student @veronicaawhite.bsky.social presenting tomorrow on her Farming Futures Cycle Tour: reflections on a fieldwork adventure - Thurs 25 Sept 15.00-16.00, in Syndicate Room C/Building One, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter.
24.09.2025 12:19 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning and welcome to those attending the first day of the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conferene! There are FGRG sponsored sessions in each of the time slots today, plus we're holding our AGM over lunch and our evening social tonight. See you soon!
#FoodGeog #RGSIBG25
27.08.2025 08:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Fieldwork cycle tour gear list
For 12 weeks, my bike was my home. Here's everything I brougt with me on my fieldwork cycle ride.
For 12 weeks this year, my bike was my home. Here's everything I brougt with me on my fieldwork cycle ride.
www.covestocliffs.com/post/fieldwo...
#PhDbyBike #cycletouring #PhDchat
30.07.2025 07:41 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
a better world is possible
27.07.2025 07:33 — 👍 220 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 0
Hi! I’m an interdisciplinary researcher exploring land use and food system pathways to support net zero and nature goals. Joined Bluesky to connect with others and stay up to date on the latest in climate, land use, and environmental sustainability! 👋 #NetZero #LandUse #FoodSystems #biodiversity
25.07.2025 11:39 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
100% yes.
I would love a musical on regenerative agriculture.
24.07.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Really looking forward to attending my first-ever @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference this August! Lots of interesting food-related sessions being sponsored by the Food Geographies Research Group!
22.07.2025 10:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text “PhD by Bike: Fieldwork overview” is overlaid over an image of Veronica cycling in the Lake District.
Just posted an overview of my #PhDbyBike, including my route and some stats!
www.covestocliffs.com/post/phd-by-...
15.07.2025 11:10 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Veronica White
Farm research by bike – interview on BBC Farming Today
Here’s my interview on BBC Farming Today about my #PhDbyBike!
youtu.be/lMDfnwhN4WM?...
10.07.2025 11:11 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It’s never too late!!
09.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations to @crpr-exeter.bsky.social PhD student @veronicaawhite.bsky.social on completing her Farming Futures Cycle Tour in support of the The Farming Community Network - in numbers: 2000+ miles, 85 days, 40 interviews!
08.07.2025 07:19 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve finished now! Cycled over 2000 miles in the end!
08.07.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A drone image, showing Veronica laid in the grass with all of the gear she took on her fieldwork laid out next to her.
My PhD fieldwork kit. This bike and everything I carried with me was my home for 12 weeks.
#PhDchat #PhDfieldwork
08.07.2025 14:51 — 👍 86 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 2
Thanks for sharing, Ollie!
05.07.2025 13:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Farming Today - 04/07/25 Capital grants and sustainable farming incentive, carbon credits, farm research on cycle tour - BBC Sounds
Sustainable farming incentive to re-open in the new year and new capital grants scheme.
Inspiring to hear @crpr-exeter.bsky.social PhD student @veronicaawhite.bsky.social being interviewed on BBC's Farming Today www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... this morning - on women farmers' visions of the future of farming - and talking about her PhD research fieldwork cycle tour.
04.07.2025 07:26 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Update from our intrepid @crpr-exeter.bsky.social PhD researcher @veronicaawhite.bsky.social who has reached Lincoln (1380 miles of cycling). N. Yorkshire & Cumbria farms next - pls share with female farmer contacts. Fundraising for the Farming Community Network: www.justgiving.com/page/farming...
12.06.2025 07:26 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Join this event tomorrow Wednesday 28 May also including @danbebber.bsky.social and Jennifer Dodsworth, at RGS or online #FoodStudies #FoodSecurity
@exeter.ac.uk @oxmartinschool.bsky.social
27.05.2025 11:02 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
#PhDSky #AcademicSky #Cornwall #Innovation #Community
Fully funded PhD opportunity on the Isles of Scilly
University of Exeter website: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
FindAPhD website: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
27.05.2025 08:44 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
Brett and Veronica cycling toward the camera on a country lane, with cows in the field on the left
Veronica is standing knee-deep in a field of wheat.
My bike, loaded up with all my touring gear, sits underneath a signpost marking the “Marriott’s Way” cycle route
Veronica stands with her bike on a country lane in Essex, lit by warm golden hour lighting
I’m over 1000 miles into my #PhDbyBike and have visited 19 farms across 7 counties, so far!
I’m still looking to speak with women involved in large-scale horticulture and dairy, as well as pig and poultry farming! If you know anyone who might be interested, please do share the project with them!
26.05.2025 16:20 — 👍 62 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 1
Progress update from intrepid @veronicaawhite.bsky.social @crpr-exeter.bsky.social PhD researcher from her cycling trip researching women in farming: ~4 weeks, 1037km (Land's End - London), 12 farm visits. She is fundraising for the Farming Community Network: www.justgiving.com/page/farming...
13.05.2025 10:22 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
My drawing, 'Sport or transport', illustrating the difference in posture between a bike used for sporting purposes, and one used for transport. There's a place for both, of course.
[Cartoon taken from 'From A to B', published by Bloomsbury]
Thanks for this discussion, @kendrawrites.com
09.05.2025 06:58 — 👍 161 🔁 47 💬 11 📌 8
A collage of images from the first three weeks of the Farming Futures Cycle Tour
Week 3 of the Farming Futures Cycle Tour is complete! So far, I’ve cycled over 1000 kms from Land’s End to London, visiting 9 farms along the way.
Looking forward to meeting women involved in urban food production in London this week! Do share with anyone who may be interested in being involved!
04.05.2025 17:12 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Yes, they’re on my map and I’m hoping to visit on my way up to Norwich!
03.05.2025 11:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yes I was!! I really enjoyed it 😊
03.05.2025 05:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Co-founder of @protect.earth, a registered charity (England & Wales) creating/restoring woodlands and other knackered ecosystems to sequester carbon and fight the biodiversity crisis. Electric van life, bikepacking, and boycotting fossil fuels.
A landscape without wildlife is just scenery. Anti-Brexit. Cycle everywhere. Smarter water management for our freshwater future.
science journalist | gig rower | cyclist | parent | Cornwall
Our Environment and Sustainability Institute is a dynamic incubator dedicated to restoring the environment and placing people at the heart of nature. #ExeterESI
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/institutes/esi/
Interdisciplinary researcher focusing on pathways and scenarios for land use and food systems for net-zero, nature and people🍃🌾🌍
PhD | FABLE Modelling | LUNZ Hub
Social media/content lead at The Museum of English Rural Life. Co-host & producer of Absolute Units. also fledgling standup
https://joevaughan.net (he/him)
Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps. There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
Singer, reader, cook, climber, liberal, feminist, bike rider, outdoors person.
Policy wonk in search of a better world.
Born at 355ppm
University of Nottingham green criminology PhD student & part-time teacher. Environmental harms, procedural justice, agriculture & the transition plan. All views my own 🌱🪴🌾🇵🇸
📍Fenlands
Nutrition, food justice, health, cycling | writer, freelance
Non-res senior fellow, IFPRI | hon associate IDS
FOOD FIGHT https://canongate.co.uk/books/5139-food-fight-from-plunder-and-profit-to-people-and-planet/
SUBSTACK: stuartgillespie.substack.com
Founder of Save British Farming, campaigning to reconnect Britain to the EU Single Market and Customs Union to Save British Farming and British Food.
I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assistant Prof in Communication at Cornell · Guatemalan-American. @natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Award-winning science communicator, bestselling author, TV personality & co-founder of Scientists for XR - making STEM fun, fighting misinformation & advocating for diversity.
AuDHD, she/her
2x TEDx speaker, 4x cat lover
www.emilygrossman.co.uk
Celebrating 25 years of providing cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research on climate change.
Our evidence informs society’s transition to a sustainable, low-carbon and climate-resilient future.
best-selling author... NCTJ-qualified freelance journo... dodgy keeper @wsc_magazine @mrporterlive @cyclingweekly @telegraph - commissions via robkempauthor.com
Food Historian and Writer. Currently sitting in the ancient world c. 3000 BCE - 476 CE. Dabbles in Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age.
insta @meganfoodhistorian