Supporting Community Cycling for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

These scholarships will cover full-time PhD tuition fees for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance) and will provide a £900 per annum research training support grant (RTSG) to help support the PhD researcher.

Applicants who already hold a doctoral degree or who have been registered on a programme of research leading to the award of a doctoral degree on a full-time basis for more than one year (or part-time equivalent) are NOT eligible to apply for an award.

Please note: you will automatically be entered into the competition for the Full Award, unless you state otherwise in your application.

The scholarship will cover tuition fees at the Home rate and a maintenance allowance of £19,000 (tbc) per annum for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance).

This scholarship also comes with £900 per annum for three years as a research training support grant (RTSG) allocation to help support the PhD researcher.

Andrews, N., Clement, I., & Aldred, R. (2018). Invisible cyclists? Disabled people and cycle planning – A case study of London. JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT & HEALTH, 8, 146–156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2017.11.145

Berent, P. A., Fujiyama, T., & Yoshida, N. (2021). Evaluating delivery of cycling activity and training programmes for disabled people in the UK. IATSS Research, 45(3), 371–381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iatssr.2021.03.006

Cox, B., & Bartle, C. (2020). A qualitative study of the accessibility of a typical UK town cycle network to disabled cyclists. Journal of Transport & Health, 19, 100954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2020.100954

Logan, G., Somers, C., Baker, G., Connell, H., Gray, S., Kelly, P., McIntosh, E., Welsh, P., Gray, C. M., & Gill, J. M. R. (2023). Benefits, risks, barriers, and facilitators to cycling: a narrative review. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5.

Maenhout, L., & Melville, C. A. (2023). Unravelling the link between physical activity and peer social connectedness in young people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review of quantitative studies. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.13095

Mölenberg, F. J. M., Panter, J., Burdorf, A., & van Lenthe, F. J. (2019). A systematic review of the effect of infrastructural interventions to promote cycling: strengthening causal inference from observational data. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity,16(1), 93. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-019-0850-1

Pucher, J., Dill, J., & Handy, S. (2010). Infrastructure, programs, and policies to increase bicycling: An international review. Preventive Medicine, 50, S106–S125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.07.028

Woodmansee, C., Hahne, A., Imms, C., & Shields, N. (2016). Comparing participation in physical recreation activities between children with disability and children with typical development: A secondary analysis of matched data. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 49–50, 268–276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2015.12.004