Rachel Aldred

Aldred studied BA Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Manchester, receiving a first class honours degree, and completed her PhD in Sociology (Doctor of Psychology) at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was the senior lecturer in sociology at the University of East London from 2007 to 2012 when she joined the University of Westminster as the Senior Lecturer in Transport and Course Leader of the MSc Transport Planning and Management programme.

In 2014 Aldred was part of the team awarded a grant from the Creative Exchange (AHRC){{Cite web|url=http://thecreativeexchange.org/projects/near-miss-project.html|title=The Creative Exchange - The Near Miss Project|website=thecreativeexchange.org|access-date=2019-06-10}} for the Near-Miss project, which looked at over 5000 near-misses reported by over 1500 individuals.{{Cite web|url=http://thecreativeexchange.org/activity/5000-near-misses.html|title=The Creative Exchange - 5000 near misses|website=thecreativeexchange.org|access-date=2019-06-10}} The study was the first to calculate a per-mile rate for cycling near misses within the UK and in conclusion found that gender had affected how frequently people experiences near misses, with women experiencing a significantly greater number of near-miss incidents than men.{{Cite web|url=http://rachelaldred.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Nearmissreport-final-web.pdf|title=Near Miss Project Report|last=Aldred|first=Rachel}}

Aldred's work on the Near-Miss project resulted in her being named 'one of the most influential people in transport' in the Evening Standard's Progress 100 Award in 2016,{{Cite web|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/news/the1000/the-progress-1000-londons-most-influential-people-2016-transport-a3335536.html|title=The Progress 1000: Transport|date=2016-09-07|website=Evening Standard|language=en|access-date=2019-06-10}} one of Bike Biz's 100 Women of the Year 2015{{Cite web|url=https://www.bikebiz.com/bikebiz-women-of-the-year-2015-part-two/|title=BikeBiz Women of the Year 2015: Part Two|website=BikeBiz|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-06-10}} and the project was named Cycling Initiative of the Year 2015{{Cite web|url=https://totalwomenscycling.com/lifestyle/gallery-total-womens-cycling-awards-2015|title=Gallery: The Total Women's Cycling Awards 2015|website=Total Women's Cycling|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-10}} by Total Women's Cycling.

Since 2015, she has worked as a co-investigator on the Propensity to Cycle tool team and as a researcher on projects looking at cycling and active travel as a matter of social justice,{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2014/dec/11/mass-cycling-social-justice-equalities-case|title=Equality for all cyclists: The social justice case for mass cycling {{!}} Peter Walker|last=Walker|first=Peter|date=2014-12-11|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-06-10|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} including a co-authoring a report into how transport planning accounts for disabled cyclists in London{{Cite journal|last1=Andrews|first1=N.|last2=Clement|first2=I.|last3=Aldred|first3=R.|date=2017-11-29|title=Invisible cyclists? Disabled people and cycle planning–A case study of London|journal=Journal of Transport and Health|language=en|volume=8|pages=146–156|issn=2214-1405|doi=10.1016/j.jth.2017.11.145|url=http://westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/20544/1/JTH_disability_authorv.pdf}} and leading the impact evaluation of the Mini-Holland active travel schemes in London.{{Cite journal|last1=Aldred|first1=R.|last2=Croft|first2=J.|last3=Goodman|first3=A.|date=2018-06-25|title=Impacts of an active travel intervention with a cycling focus in a suburban context: One-year findings from an evaluation of London's in-progress mini-Hollands programme|journal=Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice|language=en|volume=123|pages=147–169|issn=0965-8564|doi=10.1016/j.tra.2018.05.018|doi-access=free}}

Her 2017 study into inequalities in self-report road injury risk in London{{Cite journal|last=Aldred|first=R.|date=2018-04-30|title=Inequalities in self-report road injury risk in Britain: A new analysis of National Travel Survey data, focusing on pedestrian injuries|journal=Journal of Transport and Health|language=en|volume=9|pages=96–104|issn=2214-1413|doi=10.1016/j.jth.2018.03.006|doi-access=free}} was the first to use National Travel Survey data to analyse risk for those walking, finding that disabled and low-income pedestrians were far more likely to injured.{{Cite web|url=http://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/disabled-and-low-income-pedestrians-at-higher-risk-of-road-injury/|title=Disabled and low-income pedestrians at 'higher risk of road injury'|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-10}} In 2018 the new schools layer of the Propensity to Cycle tool calculated that children in England would be twenty times more likely to cycle to school with better transport planning.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/twenty-times-more-english-children-could-cycle-to-school-with-better-transport-planning/|title=Twenty times more English children could cycle to school with better transport planning|date=2019-03-18|website=MRC Epidemiology Unit|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-10}}

Between 2012 and 2018{{Cite web|title=Rachel ALDRED|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/8k6mp5dJjljZeCTt4eTh4c3zIoM/appointments|access-date=27 July 2021|website=Companies House}} she was an elected trustee of the London Cycling Campaign and in 2016 was awarded the Economic and Social Research Council (ERSC) award for outstanding impact in public policy. She is a trustee of the Road Safety Trust and was a guest speaker on an episode{{Cite web|url=https://podtail.com/en/podcast/reasons-to-be-cheerful-with-ed-miliband-and-geoff-/84-on-your-bike/|title=84. ON YOUR BIKE – Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd – Podcast|last=Lloyd|first=Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff|website=Podtail|language=en|access-date=2019-06-10}} of Ed Miliband's Reasons to be Cheerful podcast.

• Aldred, R. (2016) Stakeholders, Politics and the Media In [http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/handbook-on-transport-and-urban-planning-in-the-developed-world Edward Elgar Handbook of Transport and Urban Planning in the Developed World], edited by Michiel C.J. Bliemer, Corinne Mulley and Claudine Moutou.
• Aldred, R. [https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780203814550.ch16 The New Mobilities Paradigm and Sustainable Transport: Finding Synergies and Creating New Methods]. In [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415782791/ Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change], ed. Lockie et al. (2014).
• Aldred, R. The Commute, in [https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Mobilities/Adey-Bissell-Hannam-Merriman-Sheller/p/book/9780415667715 Routledge Handbook of Mobilities], ed. Peter Adey et al. (2013).
• Aldred, R. The role of advocacy and activism in shaping cycling policy and politics, [https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Cycling-and-Sustainability/?k=9781780522982 Cycling and Sustainability] (Emerald, Bingley, 2012, ed. John Parkin).

• Road Injuries in the National Travel Survey: Under-reporting and Inequalities in Injury Risk (2018){{Cite web|url=https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/download/131c6fd3314dc19383f95fa6a791562f9a0dd3d1a965abbd5058a91296822352/1888783/Road_Injuries_Report_April2018.pdf|title=Road Injuries in the National Travel Survey: Under Reporting and Inequalities in Injury and Risk|last=Aldred|first=Rachel|date=April 2018}}
• The Near Miss Project: First Year Report (2015){{Cite web|url=http://rachelaldred.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Nearmissreport-final-web.pdf|title=Cycling Near Misses: Findings from Year One of the Near Miss Project|last=Aldred|first=Rachel}}
• Benefits of Investing in Cycling for British Cycling (2014){{Cite web|url=https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/zuvvi/media/bc_files/campaigning/BENEFITS_OF_INVESTING_IN_CYCLING_DIGI_FINAL.pdf|title=Benefits of Investing in Cycling|last=Aldred|first=Rachel}}
• Gobuff, L. & Aldred. R. Cycling Policy in the UK: a historical and thematic overview (2011) (London: University of East London){{Cite book|url=http://rachelaldred.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cycling-review1.pdf|title=Cycling policy in the UK: a historical and thematic overview|last1=Golbuff|first1=L.|last2=Aldred|first2=R.|date=2011-02-25|publisher=University of East London Sustainable Mobilities Research Group|isbn=9781905858217|location=London|language=en}}

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