Nick Cavill

Many congratulations to the amazing @ambervandenakker.bsky.social for winning this well-deserved award. Great to be involved with your research!

The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighbourhood While ambitious urban planners try to make 15-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better. What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?

Superb article about planning for people not cars

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

So I've had a go at a Starter Pack thing to see if @nanettemutrie.bsky.social and I can find more #physicalactivity friends who have made the jump across.
Additional tags welcomed and will add
go.bsky.app/DsHNWPf

I’d be delighted to be added to this Ben!

Anyone who thinks our transport problems will be solved by EVs, consider this horrific ‘concept’. It’s like the brief was ‘maximise the danger to #pedestrians and #cyclists’.

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

If you do science, Blue Sky is the place to be.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Expert analysis identifies the government interventions needed to halve obesity in five years It is possible and affordable to halve obesity by the end of the decade if the government implements specific prevention policies, alongside wider access to weight-loss drugs, first-of-its-kind analys...

Fascinating webinar today by @nestauk.bsky.social explaining their policy intervention modelling to halve #obesity in the UK. Guess what? Restrictions on junk food ads; front of pack labelling; compulsory nutrition info etc etc. Not a voluntary agreement in sight.

www.nesta.org.uk/press-releas...

Small child cycling confidently on a separated cycle lane

Rule of thumb for future cycling infrastructure planners:

If children can't cycle on it safely, it's not fit for purpose.

Using systems mapping within the process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of the ACE active ageing programme in England and Wales Background System mapping has mainly been used to develop theories and understanding of complex systems; to hypothesise how an intervention might work in a complex system or to inform intervention dev...

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Moving on to the next stage of this project now: follow-up stage in exploring the use of systems mapping in process evaluation. #systems #complexity #physicalactivity