Lucy Saunders is a Consultant in Public Health specialising in transport, public realm and planning. She developed the Healthy Streets Approach™ and the 10 Healthy Streets Indicators™ in 2011. The Healthy Streets Approach is a framework for putting human health and quality of life at the centre of decision making around transport and public realm planning and management. In 2015 she was awarded Transport Planner of the Year by the Transport Planning Society and her work won awards from the international UITP and UK Chartered Institute for Highways and Transportation. Lucy currently leads on the integration of transport and public health in London supporting Transport for London, boroughs and advocacy organisations. Lucy works across both the Greater London Authority and Transport for London embedding the Healthy Streets Approach, as set out in Healthy Streets for London, in policy and practice. In 2014 TfL became the first transport authority in the world to publish a Health Action Plan which Lucy wrote and lead its 3-year implementation. Lucy has worked as a Public Health Specialist across a wide range of organisations from local to international level including NHS, government, academic, private and voluntary sector. She advises the World Health Organisation and the UK Government Departments for Transport and Health, Public Health England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). She gained Fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health in 2012 on completion of the UK specialist medical training programme in Public Health. She has masters degrees in geography and public health.

Ben Wooliscroft is the Associate Dean Research in the Otago Business School. He has been active in energy and transportation research, as well as quality of life and well-being. He works closely with key stakeholders in transportation in New Zealand.

Sarah is the System Design Portfolio Manager – Developing Regions at the NZ Transport Agency. The portfolio leads and supports system design opportunities nationally and focuses especially on regional economic development and national modal optimisation. This includes accountability for the design and delivery of the NLTP’s walking and cycling activity class (both local roads and state highways). Sarah has been with the Transport Agency since November 2015. Previously she had worked at Tasman District Council, where she was involved in activity planning in the engineering department. Sarah originates from the UK where she was a high school teacher.

Jack is a final year photography student at UCOL. After a long career in horticultural science that morphed into web technologies, and well into his fifties, he threw caution to the winds and became a student again. Coming from a keen cycling family and having biked all his life, and still as an active triathlete, cycling photography has become an all consuming passion. Jack has cycled in nine countries, and recently won the Student Category at the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography 2018 Iris Awards. Jack is in the early stages of a photographic project on commuter cycling. He intends to visually capture the subculture in the context that cycle commuting has in the current social and political environment. In short he wants to give cycle commuting a more visible face, and tell the rich and varied stories of cyclists and their bikes on the roads and cycle paths of some of New Zealand’s towns and cities.

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