🚨 Expert Alert
🔷 Simon Cook
⬇️ Financial Times

'People just don’t consider running an option for commuting or see it as a mode of transport.'

#BCUAlert Birmingham City University

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Just 1 week left to apply for this exciting & FULLY FUNDED PhD project into alternative active travel

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Work with me & Prof Kiara Lewis at BCU HELS to research how running, skateboards, rollerblades, wheelchairs, scooters, skis, or kayaks are used for transport

Delighted to share our new Professional Doctorate in Sport (DSport) Birmingham City University 🤩

We are now recruiting students for September 2024 across all sport disciplines 🎓

Please reach out if you would like to learn more 💻

Find out more and apply here ⤵️
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Interested in researching run-commuting?🏃‍♀️

How about ski-commuting?⛷️

Or how skateboarding is used for transport?🛹

Well you can! Fully-funded PhD into alternative active travel available with me and Prof Kiara Lewis HELS Research

Jobs ac advert now live: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHC045/phd…

Just over 4 weeks left to submit a proposal for this fully-funded PhD/GTA opportunity on disability, green exercise and technology with myself, Jack Black and Annouska Carter. SPARC 👇

Interested in doing a #PhD on using digital interventions to co-create more inclusive active spaces for teen girls?

Fully-funded studentship BCU BuiltEnvironment supervised by Silvia Gullino, Carlo Harvey & me!

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Deadline 30th April. Please share widely.

To date, we know very little about the intersections between disabled bodies and technologies in ‘natural' spaces. Want to address this? Come and do a doctorate with me and Jack Black SPARC bit.ly/3SW4gB9 Deadline is May 15th.

Very excited to announce an upcoming VPFA Study Day on ‘Knowledge in the Victorian Periodical’, taking place at English at Manchester Met on 19 April 2024. Please send us your proposals for 15-20 minute papers (deadline is 15 March). 1/3

@comtb_research seminar schedule for 2024 is now complete. Looking forward to lots of topical #mtb chat with some leading thinkers in the field. First up: Jim Cherrington on emtb/disability and liam healy on trail building as 'ecologies of practice'. eventbrite.co.uk/e/cultures-of-…

Pleased to have another exciting CFP to share for #RGSIBG24 with Farzaneh Bahrami

Walking Further: new perspectives on long-distance walking and walking distance

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Interested in varied perspectives from transport, sport, leisure, urban design and more.

Where should people run/jog in urban and suburban areas?

Would love to hear opinions and experiences of runners and non-runners below as well....

RT for sample!

Would love to hear what runners, cyclists and all variety of commuters think about this - see poll below 👇

Where do you think runners should run in the city?

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One of my NTU Department of Sport Science dissertation students is looking for females aged 18+ to complete a survey on their experiences of running in public spaces. We'd appreciate any help in promoting the survey forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

New article on the sensory practices of visually impaired runners with Ben Powis. Thanks to everyone involved in the research. Read or listen to it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… British Blind Sport England Athletics parkrun UK Activity Alliance