Prof. Ian Walker
@ianwalker.bsky.social
Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. Motonormativity person. Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. My views
Guinness World Record for the fastest bicycle ride across Europe drianwalker.com
Guinness World Record for the fastest bicycle ride across Europe drianwalker.com
"Support for cycling infrastructure and traffic restrictions [but] particularly opposed the removal of car parking... Cyclists and drivers favoured segregated cycling infrastructure"
New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Support for cycling infrastructure and traffic restrictions [but] particularly opposed the removal of car parking... Cyclists and drivers favoured segregated cycling infrastructure"
New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How could the public possibly have got the idea they need a big car to be good parents? It's a mystery
(Insert hot dog guy meme here)
(Insert hot dog guy meme here)
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
How could the public possibly have got the idea they need a big car to be good parents? It's a mystery
(Insert hot dog guy meme here)
(Insert hot dog guy meme here)
How many separate car brains within Swansea Council must have approved and actioned placing a parking space right across the end of this footpath?
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many separate car brains within Swansea Council must have approved and actioned placing a parking space right across the end of this footpath?
@jonnelledge.bsky.social Really pleased to hear you make the point on OGWN about the number of car trips that could be walked. It's great to have that out there somewhere people might hear it
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
@jonnelledge.bsky.social Really pleased to hear you make the point on OGWN about the number of car trips that could be walked. It's great to have that out there somewhere people might hear it
Day 1 of the @teammodeshift.bsky.social conference. On stage here with some illustrious company, after an opening speech where I tried to suggest we need to disrupt the transport status quo, as well as provide alternatives
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Day 1 of the @teammodeshift.bsky.social conference. On stage here with some illustrious company, after an opening speech where I tried to suggest we need to disrupt the transport status quo, as well as provide alternatives
Marco te Brömmelstroet and I crowdsourced our 2025 study to show how people's environments shape motonormativity
Now we're back. Along with Ashton Rohmer, we want ask if we can measure and understand the wider belief system underpinning car-supremacy. You can help: whydonate.com/fundraising/...
Now we're back. Along with Ashton Rohmer, we want ask if we can measure and understand the wider belief system underpinning car-supremacy. You can help: whydonate.com/fundraising/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Marco te Brömmelstroet and I crowdsourced our 2025 study to show how people's environments shape motonormativity
Now we're back. Along with Ashton Rohmer, we want ask if we can measure and understand the wider belief system underpinning car-supremacy. You can help: whydonate.com/fundraising/...
Now we're back. Along with Ashton Rohmer, we want ask if we can measure and understand the wider belief system underpinning car-supremacy. You can help: whydonate.com/fundraising/...
Off to Leeds later, to speak at the @teammodeshift.bsky.social annual conference tomorrow. Amongst much else, I'll be sharing this graph, based on our 2025 paper.
Almost everybody thinks it's important to be able to travel without a car, but they underestimate how much everyone else agrees
Almost everybody thinks it's important to be able to travel without a car, but they underestimate how much everyone else agrees
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Off to Leeds later, to speak at the @teammodeshift.bsky.social annual conference tomorrow. Amongst much else, I'll be sharing this graph, based on our 2025 paper.
Almost everybody thinks it's important to be able to travel without a car, but they underestimate how much everyone else agrees
Almost everybody thinks it's important to be able to travel without a car, but they underestimate how much everyone else agrees
The latest National Travel Survey clearly questions that old myth about "Active travel is just for the middle classes, what about working people who have to drive?"
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The latest National Travel Survey clearly questions that old myth about "Active travel is just for the middle classes, what about working people who have to drive?"
Remember the failed 1980s attempt to make a big event out of some cheap wine being sold? THEY DO IN SWANSEA. Today is Beaujolais Day - the biggest party of the year. Everyone has their best clothes on and the town is THUMPING. As will be some heads in the morning
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Remember the failed 1980s attempt to make a big event out of some cheap wine being sold? THEY DO IN SWANSEA. Today is Beaujolais Day - the biggest party of the year. Everyone has their best clothes on and the town is THUMPING. As will be some heads in the morning
Naturally the Welsh Air Quality Forum has a rugby pitch handy
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Naturally the Welsh Air Quality Forum has a rugby pitch handy
Oh wow. I just stumbled on this very old news report from when I had apparently borrowed Frankie Boyle's beard
November 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Oh wow. I just stumbled on this very old news report from when I had apparently borrowed Frankie Boyle's beard
Hard to think why anyone would want to ban VPNs
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hard to think why anyone would want to ban VPNs
Just found this from when my colleague and I were trying to build an Arduino into some plastic tennis balls
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Just found this from when my colleague and I were trying to build an Arduino into some plastic tennis balls
Shall we all bookmark this for when the Budget decides the Bike to Work scheme is unaffordable? www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Shall we all bookmark this for when the Budget decides the Bike to Work scheme is unaffordable? www.gov.uk/government/n...
Worth remembering that energy demand changes over the day something like this pattern. We can try to make sure there's always exactly enough supply to meet the peaks (i.e., build a lot more generation) or we can look to reshape the demand slightly and avoid this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Worth remembering that energy demand changes over the day something like this pattern. We can try to make sure there's always exactly enough supply to meet the peaks (i.e., build a lot more generation) or we can look to reshape the demand slightly and avoid this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The little exclamation mark next to the 5G logo is the telecoms equivalent of that joke "When we've got no bananas ours are just 10p too" #phonesdontworkontrains
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The little exclamation mark next to the 5G logo is the telecoms equivalent of that joke "When we've got no bananas ours are just 10p too" #phonesdontworkontrains
I'm walking up the middle of Wales for a couple of days. It's fascinating how the small remote market towns each manage to sustain one really unexpected business like a lingerie shop
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'm walking up the middle of Wales for a couple of days. It's fascinating how the small remote market towns each manage to sustain one really unexpected business like a lingerie shop
Get your act together, Carmarthenshire #activetravel
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Get your act together, Carmarthenshire #activetravel
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"Crucifixion?"
"Nah, freedom for me"
"Oh jolly good, off you go then"
"Nah, freedom for me"
"Oh jolly good, off you go then"
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"Crucifixion?"
"Nah, freedom for me"
"Oh jolly good, off you go then"
"Nah, freedom for me"
"Oh jolly good, off you go then"
Oh yeah, going international on Wikipedia
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Oh yeah, going international on Wikipedia
My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design
simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design
simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
I've been a member of Cycling UK since the 90s, back when it was the CTC. It's honestly humbling being featured in the newsletter of an organisation that's been part of my life for so long
October 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I've been a member of Cycling UK since the 90s, back when it was the CTC. It's honestly humbling being featured in the newsletter of an organisation that's been part of my life for so long
What a great idea for a map: the blue areas are closer to space than to the sea.
brilliantmaps.com/sea-vs-sapce/
brilliantmaps.com/sea-vs-sapce/
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
What a great idea for a map: the blue areas are closer to space than to the sea.
brilliantmaps.com/sea-vs-sapce/
brilliantmaps.com/sea-vs-sapce/
"No consideration has been given to the historic nature of the city" says Gloucester councillor over cycle path resurfacing "It has changed the whole ambience of this area of the city" road.cc road.cc/content/news... Perhaps I can help by sharing some images of "historic Gloucester" as I remember it
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"No consideration has been given to the historic nature of the city" says Gloucester councillor over cycle path resurfacing "It has changed the whole ambience of this area of the city" road.cc road.cc/content/news... Perhaps I can help by sharing some images of "historic Gloucester" as I remember it