Movement in Conversation with Clara Walker & Daniel Bulawa
There are many active travel projects at the local and national levels. In this podcast episode, we hear what national plans are being developed to support more people's active travel choices, specifically how people with long-term health conditions are being supported to access active travel options.
My career has been dedicated to social and environmental change, with a strong focus on expanding access to skills and opportunities for all. At FEL Scotland, my priority has always been helping people make informed choices—supporting locally led solutions to the challenges of a changing climate. I believe that meaningful partnerships and a positive, impact-driven culture create the best conditions for supporting people and communities where they are and driving lasting change.
Outside of work, I am at my happiest either outdoors with a podcast in my ears and my beloved hound by my side or nestled amongst my family, enjoying our favourite food at the kitchen table.
As a policymaker in Transport Scotland I help shape the delivery of programmes at national, regional, and local levels that break down the ‘soft factors’ (personal, social, economic, and cultural) preventing people from choosing to walk, wheel, or cycle for their everyday short journeys. I engage with stakeholders, experts, and the public, to analyse the evidence and produce advice on how we should support, fund, monitor, and evaluate interventions that achieve ministers’ aims in this area.
A career civil servant, I have worked for the Court Service, directly with ministers and Permanent Secretaries in Private Offices, on a Bill Team seeing constitutional legislation through Parliament, and in the last seven years, I’ve worked on transport and infrastructure policy: On an intergovernmental level coordinating between the UK and Scottish Governments, and for Transport Scotland on making travel accessible for everyone, and right now, on the ‘People and Place’ programme of sustainable and active travel behaviour change.