{"id":508,"date":"2018-02-07T22:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T06:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sportenvironmentpeacemedia\/?p=508"},"modified":"2018-02-07T23:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T07:00:43","slug":"devra-waldman-back-from-doing-bicycles-for-development-research-in-pune-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sportenvironmentpeacemedia\/2018\/02\/07\/devra-waldman-back-from-doing-bicycles-for-development-research-in-pune-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Devra Waldman \u2013 Back from doing \u2018bicycles for development\u2019 research in Pune, India"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December 2017, Devra Waldman \u2013 funded by a SSHRC Insight grant entitled \u201cCycling Against Poverty? Researching a Sport for Development Movement and an \u2018Object\u2019 in\/for Development\u201d<\/a> \u2013 spent time in Pune, India with girls and young women who are involved with an NGO that works in multiple villages to equip young girls with the skills necessary to overcome forms of discrimination and exclusion from formal \"\"education. One of the barriers to rural girls’ access to education is physical distance between their villages and the closest high schools. With unreliable or unavailable public transport, for most, the journey to high school would be too far to take. Recognizing this barrier, the NGO began a Bicycle Bank \u2013 which provided all girls with bicycles in order to help them complete their high school education. Devra interviewed young girls and women who had been recipients of bikes about their experiences receiving and using the bicycles. Devra also began a project with the girls and women that was inspired by digital participatory methodologies, where she asked the participants to take photographs that would represent the range of their experiences with their bicycles. After giving the participants time to take photographs, Devra met with them again — and the participants then shared their favourite photographs and had a conversation with Devra about what the photos represented to them. The goal of this methodology is to centre the girls’ voices and experiences in the research and in the analysis, as well as shift the focus to the bicycle as an object of\/for development. The hope is to go back to the villages in the near future to\u00a0 continue this work, with more participants, and over a longer time frame.<\/p>\n

To find out more about Devra and her research, visit the Research Group<\/a> link. For details on the SSHRC Insight grant entitled \u201cCycling Against Poverty? Researching a Sport for Development Movement and an \u2018Object\u2019 in\/for Development\u201d – visit https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sportenvironmentpeacemedia\/projects\/bicycles-for-development\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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In December 2017, Devra Waldman \u2013 funded by a SSHRC Insight grant entitled \u201cCycling Against Poverty? Researching a Sport for Development Movement and an \u2018Object\u2019 in\/for Development\u201d \u2013 spent time in Pune, India with girls and young women who are involved with an NGO that works in multiple villages to equip young girls with the … <\/p>\n

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