Bicycles for Development

Articles and Book Chapters

Steinmann, J., McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Wilson, B. (Forthcoming). Bicycles and the Creation of Peaceful Places. In G.B. Norcliffe (Ed.), The Companion to Cycling. London: Routledge.

Steinmann, J., Wilson, B., McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Bandoles, E. (In press). Experiences of ‘safe space’: From a bicycle program to the road. Sociology of Sport Journal. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2020-0155

McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Bandoles, E. & Leung, K. (2021). Colliding mandates of social enterprises: Exploring the financial strategies, environment, and social-market tensions of bicycles-for-development organizations. Sport Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2021.1899721

Ardizzi, M., Wilson, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., McSweeney, M. & Otte, J. (2020). “People still believe the bicycle is for a poor person”: Features of ‘Bicycles for Development’ organizations in Uganda and perspectives of practitioners. Sociology of Sport Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0167

McSweeney, M., Millington, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Ardizzi, M. & Otte, J. (2020).‘The bike breaks down. What are they going to do?’ Actor-networks and the Bicycles for Development movement.  International Review for the Sociology of Sport. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1012690220904921

Reports, Digital Compilations, Podcasts, Policy Documents and Working Papers

Bandoles, E., del Soccorro Cruz Centeno, L., McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Wilson, B. (2020). The bicycle, agente de Cambio in Ometepe Island, Nicaragua: Findings and recommendations.

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Ardizzi, M., & Otte, J. (2020). Cycling against poverty? The bicycle, health, and livelihoods of HIV positive women in Northern Uganda.

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Bandoles, E., & Steinmann, J. (2020). The bicycle, safe space, social justice, and Charlie’s FreeWheels in Toronto, Canada: Findings and recommendations.

Bandoles, E. (2018). Bicycles as a Tool for Development?

Hayhurst, L.M.C. & del Soccorro Cruz Centeno, L. (2017). Digital Story – Sport for Gender-Based Violence Protection: The Way We See It. Available in  English and Spanish: http://www.lyndsayhayhurst.com/videos.

The Sport, Social Justice, and Development Podcast (October 2020)

We have launched a monthly podcast focused on the use of sport, physical activity, recreation, and leisure for development purposes (e.g., gender equality, conflict resolution, social inclusion), in which we interview individuals working within the field of sport-for-development and peace, including organizational practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, and program participants.

Listen via Apple Podcast or Spotify.

Conference Presentations

2021

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Otte, J., & Wilson, B. (2021, May). “All of these children, I am the one who keeps them”: Social entrepreneurship, gender relations, and the use of the bicycle for development in rural communities of Northern Uganda. Submitted for oral presentation at the 2021 Canadian Congress on Leisure Research 16 (virtual).

2020

McSweeney, M.J. (2020, June). Collaborative visual and digital research methods with refugees in Kampala, Uganda: Utilizing photovoice, photocollaging, and digital storytelling. Oral presentation at the Annual Canadian Sociological Association Congress 2020, London, Ontario, Canada. (Conference cancelled)

2019

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Bandoles, E., & Steinmann, J. (2019, November). What counts as sport for development? Oral presentation at the 2019 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.

Steinmann, J., Wilson, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., McSweeney, M.J., & Bandoles, E. (2019, November). Experiences of ‘safe space’: From a bicycle program to the road. Oral presentation at the 2019 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.

McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Otte, J., & Wilson, B. (2019, June). Conducting effective collaborative research across global North-South contexts: Benefits, challenges and implications of working with visual and digital participatory research approaches. Oral presentation at the 2019 Canadian Association for the Study of International Development Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2018

Ardizzi, M. (2018, November). With(I)n the bicycles for development (BFD) movement: Methodology and embodied reflections. Poster presentation at annual conference for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Ardizzi, M., McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Wilson, B. (2018, July). The globalization of ‘bicycles for development’: Examining a sport for development ‘movement’. Oral presentation at the 19^th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

McSweeney, M.J. (2018, July). Shifting gears: Exploring the ‘bicycles for development’ movement. Invited session (Sport and International Development) at the 23^rd Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Dublin, Ireland.

Waldman, D., McSweeney, M.J., Wilson, B., & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2018, June). Bicycles for development and India: Girls’ and young women’s perceptions of and experiences with donated bicycles. Oral presentation at the 6^th International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2017

Hayhurst, L., Wilson, B., Millington, B. & Vanwynsberghe, R. (2017, November). Charting the ‘Bicycles for Development’ MoMovement. Paper presented at annual conference for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Windsor, ON, Canada.