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CulturalRoad develops sustainable and population -wide accepted deployment plans for Cooperative, Connected, and Autonomous Mobility (CCAM) services by combining participatory planning with a novel Five-Pointed Star Rating system able to capture both cultural and geographical diversity. At its core, the project advocates for active engagement with local communities, gathering valuable insights on their mobility needs. Through participatory planning, stakeholders from various cultural backgrounds and geographical regions collaborate to share their mobility needs. This inclusive approach ensures that CCAM solutions are tailor-made to meet the distinct demands of each community, this is, it makes them vectors of a more equitable mobility.

Biocultural heritage - the physical remains of ancient humans, animals, plants and landscapes, as well as material and visual culture - is an important resource. It represents tangible evidence for human interactions with the natural world, biodiversity, food systems, human-animal-environmental health, and exploitation of organic raw materials. As such, there is a growing recognition that interdisciplinary studies of biocultural heritage can help address modern global challenges, all of which are fundamentally cultural with deep histories. Yet biocultural heritage is a finite resource and one that is under threat. At the landscape scale, climate change is endangering heritage sites. Museum collections are being impacted by the curation crisis, which is seeing materials refused accession or deaccessioned without record. But there is also a significant threat to biocultural heritage from the research practices of scientists themselves. Advances in archaeological science are seeing increasing quantities of material targeted for destructive analyses (e.g. aDNA, proteomics, isotopes, radiocarbon dating, organic residue analysis, and histology). Whilst such individual analyses generate transformative results, our networks and research partners (including national institutions, museum curators, archives, community archaeology groups and commercial units) have raised ethical issues associated with the destruction of biocultural heritage. They have highlighted the overwhelming need for: 1) specimens to be preserved by 3D record; 2) scans to be made available for future analyses; 3) data from destructive analysis to be linked to 3D records in a way that is accessible to curators and broader research communities both in the UK and abroad. The last is particularly important to ensure that materials are not repeatedly sampled by different research groups and so that independent lines of evidence can be brought together. To address these issues of collections preservation, storage and accessibility the Biocultural HIVE will: Upgrade our existing physical archive space to better accommodate our own nationally important biocultural collections and provide appropriate environmentally controlled temporary storage for materials being analysed by our CResCa-funded digital imaging facility, SHArD-3D. 2. Create a new laboratory space so that researchers can access, and have space to study, our permanent and temporary collections. 3. Collate and standardise the large quantities of 3D and analytical data from our SHArD-3D collaborations and international UKRI, Wellcome Trust and ERC projects. 4. Use the data generated by point 3) to create and test an open-access, continuously updateable, digital repository (rather than closed-dataset repositories e.g. Archaeology Data Service) for the curation and sharing of digital 3D files and other analytical results. 5. Drawing on expertise from the UKRI funded GLAM-E we will embed ethical data practices into our digital platforms and co-create appropriate open-access policies with our partners. 6. Employ a Database Manager to 1) liaise with stakeholders and 2) populate and maintain the repository with the ultimate intention of migrating it to the RICHeS Digital Research Service at Daresbury, so that it is sustainable beyond the life of the project. This resource will benefit the heritage science community and provide researchers with the ability to deposit, update, and access collections/data on an unprecedented scale. Beyond this it will create a new research platform for data mining, the application of deep-learning technologies, and ensure we are delivering world-leading heritage science.

Cycling can contribute to physical and mental health and wellbeing among the older population by providing an active means of independent mobility to connect with the community and engage in social activities. But whilst cycling accounts for 23 per cent of all journeys for people aged 65 and older in the Netherlands, 15 per cent in Denmark and 9 per cent in Germany, it represents only 1 per cent of all journeys in the UK. This research starts from the premise that older people in the UK are often portrayed as citizens who lack the capacity to cycle and that this translates into design guidance that fails to consider how the built environment could be transformed to support cycling amongst an ageing population. As people age, cycling becomes more physically challenging, forcing many to stop. Some people do adapt to changing physical circumstances and continue to cycle in older age. However, many lack the desire to cycle because of risks associated with its practice in an unsupportive environment and fear of personal injury. Projects to improve cycle infrastructure coupled with the growth in availability of assistive technologies such as electric bicycles ('e-bikes') could have a significant role in creating opportunities for older people to return to cycling or prevent them from giving up. The aim of this research is to better understand how built environment and technological design is shaping the willingness and ability of older people to cycle, how they interact and experience the built environment when cycling, and how this affects their wellbeing. Attention will focus on elements of design at different scales from buildings, to neighbourhoods, to wider town networks and also on bicycle technology and equipment. The research will investigate the range of policies and programmes and guidance available across the EU targeted at promoting more inclusive cycling amongst the older population and compare this with activity in the UK. A range of existing UK data sources will be analysed to identify trends in participation in cycling across the in the UK and the extent to which recent projects and programmes are encouraging older people to cycle. A mix of innovative methods to understand the relationship between cycling in the built environment and wellbeing will be used with residents approaching later life (aged 50-59) and in later life (60+) across the Bristol, Oxford, Reading and Southampton areas. First, biographic ('cycling life-history') interviews will be conducted in order to understand the role of past experiences of cycling and the influence of life events such as family and social relationships, employment and wider social, economic, environmental and technological change; Second, mobile interviews and observation will be conducted with participants as they make a regular journey by cycle in order to capture their everyday experience of cycling and to measure how interaction with the built environment affects mental physical and mental wellbeing; Third, new and returning older cycle users will be invited to take part in a unique 8-week experiment to measure how their (re)engagement with both conventional and electric cycling in the built environment affects their physical and mental wellbeing. A rich dataset incorporating qualitative (textual, cartographic, video) and quantitative (numerical measures of wellbeing) data will be used to develop a toolkit for use by policy makers and practitioners. This will advise how the built environment and technology could be designed to support and promote cycling amongst current and future older generations and provide evidence of how this could improve independent cycling mobility and health and wellbeing. The toolkit will include briefing notes linked to design guidance and a documentary video, made with participants of the study, distributed directly to policy makers, practitioners and stakeholder and made available on the Web with the aim of generating maximum impact.

Despite rapid social progress LGBTQ+ adolescents often still experience distressing bullying and victimization. Mistreatment and socially hostile environments in turn negatively impact on their mental health (e.g. they are more likely to be depressed, self-harm and attempt suicide) as well as their physical health (e.g. they are more likely to smoke cigarettes). A pressing public health challenge is addressing the adverse effects of the social violence these adolescents experience on a day-to-day basis in the United Kingdom (UK). For example, Amos and colleagues' paper from the UK's nationally representative longitudinal Millennium Cohort Study of almost 10,000 14-year olds reported that sexual minority (e.g. LGB) adolescents had twice the odds of being verbally and physically assaulted in the past 12 months compared to their heterosexual peers. Less has been reported on the experiences of transgender and gender diverse adolescents, but studies have consistently documented a high prevalence of adverse health and wellbeing outcomes for these adolescents. In 2017 the UK Government conducted a survey of LGBT people and received responses from over 100,000 LGBT individuals who reported numerous examples of victimisation, bullying and discrimination. This survey has now been used to set an agenda for change, entitled the "LGBT Action Plan". This plan supports action in schools, health services and communities so that LGBT people can live safe, happy and healthy lives without fear of discrimination. Typically, LGBTQ+ adolescents cannot simply leave harmful social environments due to the practical constraints around their schooling and their economic dependence on their families. Many are geographically isolated away from the LGBTQ+ charities or support groups clustered in large urban areas and most will not have parents who are LGBTQ+. Further exacerbating the challenges is that LGBTQ+ adolescents are thought to be 'coming out' earlier and as a result they frequently have not yet developed the more sophisticated psycho-social skills that LGBTQ+ people who come out as young adults possess, which means their older LGBTQ+ peers may be better equipped to handle harmful social environments. Hence, there is an urgent need for widely accessible and targeted help to assist these adolescents to develop the best possible skills to thrive. Strategies have been employed to recognise and improve harmful social environments, such as anti-bullying interventions delivered by LGBTQ+ organisations in secondary schools. However, the 'Inverse Care Law' demonstrates that health systems' policies often inadvertently restrict needs-based care in populations with the poorest health and greatest levels of disadvantage. This includes LGBTQ+ adolescents, not because they are hard to reach, but like other under-served populations they will be easy to neglect. Although LGBTQ+ adolescents are a 'high risk' population, and despite sexual orientation and gender reassignment being protected characteristics in the Equality Act, few evidence-informed interventions have been developed for them. Two recent systematic reviews of psycho-social treatments identified only a single tested online tool to support the mental wellbeing of LGBTQ+ adolescents, which was developed in New Zealand by Lucassen (i.e. 'Rainbow SPARX'). Coping strategies that are evidence-based for the general population but are fine-tuned with LGBTQ+ adolescents in mind (e.g. with strategies that assist them to manage LGBTQ+ stigma and victimisation) proffers considerable potential. This is especially so if they are delivered online in an engaging manner and focus on enhancing coping skills and building resilience.