Fantastic opportunity to work with mover and shaker @drfijohnstone.bsky.social - I am constantly learning from her!
22.04.2025 18:54 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
β¦devise & deliver activities & outputs that extend the profile of moving bodies in relation to medical humanities.
04.04.2025 04:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thrilled to be recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Moving Bodies Lab. Successful candidate will design & conduct an original prog of work that aligns with the aims of MBL & work with me and other members of the Lab team toβ¦
04.04.2025 04:18 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
It was a such privilege to have been involved in delivering this PhD School. I was blown away by the students' willingness to be present and open to others participating in the School, and by their passion and dedication to their research. Heartfelt thanks to all who joined & supported us.
26.03.2025 19:50 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Illustration collage of bodies in various forms of exercise, including swimming and meditation. Backdrop of an ocean, with butterflies, birds, trees and bushes.
Could you be our new Postdoctoral Research Associate?
We are appointing a talented researcher to work with the Moving Bodies Lab, led by @cassie-phoenix.bsky.social!
We welcome applications from researchers interested in physical activity and health.
Find out moreπ durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
26.03.2025 12:06 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE π We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health
21.03.2025 15:54 β π 2168 π 473 π¬ 58 π 60
A sensory tray and some new travel dolls houses all waiting for my tiny humanβ¦will they be enough to allow me to join and enjoy our first webinar for the #QRSEcreativemethodsseries?π€π»π€π»π€π» see you in a bit! #qualitativeresearch #photovoice #visualethnography
19.03.2025 16:45 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Two separate events coming up on March 27th (hybrid) and 28th (Durham) that may be of interest to @qrsesociety.bsky.social and @leisure-studies.bsky.social members. Free to attend. Follow the links to register. π
#slow #stillness #physicalactivity #interdisciplinary
18.03.2025 09:10 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Our wonderful colleague Lindsay @lsmacnaughton.bsky.social has just joined our Bluesky community
And just so happens she's recently co-authored a new BASES expert statement on preventing problematic low energy availability / relative energy deficiency in sport π
www.bases.org.uk/imgs/10652_b...
14.03.2025 12:17 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
The Moving Bodies Lab Events Bulletin
What's on at the Moving Bodies Lab in March 2025
Plenty to look forward to this month in The Moving Bodies Lab! A hybrid seminar with Meridith Griffin (McMaster) and a one-day interdisciplinary methodologies workshop exploring slowness, stillness and how this relates to health & wellbeing. Find out more!
mailchi.mp/4381a2783d68...
13.03.2025 18:36 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 1 π 2
Aww, well thatβs lovely - thanks folksβ¦ and big up to all the wonder-women I get to work with and learn from 365 days a year! π« ππ€©
06.03.2025 13:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Great thread Joe! Many of my favourites on this list, along with a couple I had missed - thank you! Tagging co-author @sarahbell85.bsky.social who is also on here.
04.03.2025 08:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Our live commitments to accessibility for our June Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference - this list is our minimum and will continue to be updated as we prepare to welcome folk to Durham!
21.02.2025 11:52 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
FYI - @qrsesociety.bsky.social π
15.02.2025 12:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Welcome @qrsesociety.bsky.social! Great to see you on here π
Suggest following if you are a #qualitative researcher in #sport #exercise, #physicalactivity, #health!
15.02.2025 12:20 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Archive
Browse recordings from past events.
ICYMI Recording of December seminar 'Running (to/from) Work' with Prof Alex Mold & Dr Simon Cook is now on our Event Archive page. Hosted by the Moving Bodies Lab.
Featuring my Christmas jumper! ππββοΈ #runcommute #running #physicalactivity #jog
@durhamimh.bsky.social
medhumsplatform.org/archive/
23.01.2025 21:03 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Wellcome to Bluesky @the-polyphony.bsky.social - a fabulous resource for all your critical medical humanities wants and needs!
22.01.2025 08:34 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Happening tomorrow ... register today!
21.01.2025 09:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Materialising Methods
What can practice-based research tell us about working with disciplinary cultures that are not our own? This one-day symposium explores how contemporary art practices engage with expert cultures in he...
Hello Bluesky!
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
17.01.2025 09:34 β π 8 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
βPower Across Platformsβ: New media, old spaces and performance of strength
A hybrid seminar by Dr Conor Hefferman and Professor Claire Warden considering the complex history of strong bodies in spaces.
Interested in the complex history of strong bodies? πͺποΈββοΈ
Join our next hybrid seminar with Prof Claire Warden (@lborouniversity.bsky.social) & Dr Conor Heffernan (@physcstudy.bsky.social)
Hosted by the Moving Bodies Lab @durhamimh.bsky.social
ποΈJan22 (4-5) Sign Upπ medhumsplatform.org/event/power-...
17.01.2025 06:45 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Sport and Exercise Sciences @ Durham Research Newsletter
Welcome to the December 2024 issue of the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences (DSES) research newsletter.
Read all about it! ποΈ
βοΈWhat else can bikes do? π²
βοΈEnsuring football is safe and inclusive for women fansβ½οΈ
βοΈThe βactivity trapβ faced by disabled peopleπ°
π«β¦ and more!
sway.cloud.microsoft/zNtHlrnTMaFG...
03.01.2025 08:07 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowships
Announcing the launch of the Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship Scheme. Deadline for applications: 28 February 2025.
π£ π Applications are now open for our funded Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowships! This new scheme will support professionals & researchers from health, voluntary & community sectors to develop novel #medhums research. Deadline: 28 Feb 2025
tinyurl.com/practice-res...
09.12.2024 16:25 β π 13 π 14 π¬ 0 π 2
βPower Across Platformsβ: New media, old spaces and performance of strength
A hybrid seminar by Dr Conor Hefferman and Professor Claire Warden considering the complex history of strong bodies in spaces.
...πͺ followed by the complex history of strong bodies in both online and 'offline' spaces with Prof of Performance and Physical Culture, Claire Warden (@clar and historian Dr Conor Heffernan (@physcstudy.bsky.social).
ποΈJan22 (4-5). Durham/Hybrid. Sign up π medhumsplatform.org/event/power-...
28.11.2024 12:35 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Running (to/from) Work
A webinar by Professor Alex Mold and Dr Simon Cook exploring one of the most popular sports and pastimes in the UK - running.
πββοΈJoin us for discussions on the work of running (including 'fun'!) through the 1970s, 80s with public health historian Prof. Alex Mold,followed by rise of contemporary run communting with geographer/jographer Dr Simon Cook.
ποΈ Dec 10th (4-5pm). Online. Sign up: medhumsplatform.org/event/runnin...
28.11.2024 12:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Events Moving Bodies
Events at The Moving Bodies Lab
βοΈWinter has arrived in Durham, UKπ₯Ά
The Moving Bodies Lab is resisting the urge to hybernate by hosting what are sure to be 2 excellent seminars during Dec & JanπββοΈπͺ
Follow the π§΅for details, how to register...
Or, skip straight to our events pageπ
medhumsplatform.org/labs/moving-...
28.11.2024 12:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I've made a starter pack of UK-based social science academics interested in sport and/or physical activity
Do give me a DM if you want to be added (or withdrawn) !
go.bsky.app/BJE65Wq
24.11.2024 14:59 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 3 π 1
You are living the dream!!! π€©
I would have been a 4th, for sure!
23.11.2024 11:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Running (to/from) Work
A webinar by Professor Alex Mold and Dr Simon Cook exploring one of the most popular sports and pastimes in the UK - Running.
βRunning (to/from) Workβ ππ½ββοΈπββοΈ
Webinar hosted by the Moving Bodies Lab, with speakers Prof Alex Mole (LSHTM). Dr Simon Cook (BCU)
ποΈ 10th Dec
β±οΈ 4-5pm. Free.
#Running #MedicalHumanities #FunRun #SportMobilities
Register π:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/running-to... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/running-to...
21.11.2024 13:10 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Research Fellow at Durham University, exploring narratives and experiences of madness, mental illness, and mental distress. Interested in stories and why we tell them.
The project page for Kicking the Habit: Historicising 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025. Wellcome Trust Funded. Runs 2024-30 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader & Co-Leader of @greenparty.org.uk.Co-President of the European Movement. Mum of 2, plus puppy Nell. Author, Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story. Still writing & campaigning on climate & nature π
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. Motonormativity guy. Head of Psychology, Swansea University π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ. Charity trustee x2. My views
Guinness World Record for the fastest bicycle ride across Europe drianwalker.com
Multi-disciplinary space for researchers, practitioners & students of Leisure Studies
Helping you find the joy in academic writing #AcWri
Podcast and tips coming soon!
Mental health researcher. Writer. Queer. Sober. U=U. Free Palestine π
Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Indianapolis (IU Indy). Associate Editor at #JGSS. Research interests include health, aging, and disability.
#sociology #medsoc #gerontology
International Journal. Advances qualitative research in sport & exercise psychology, sport sociology, coaching, sport/exercise medicine - IF 3.2; 5-year IF 15.0 Co-Editors - Profs. Kerry McGannon (Laurentian Uni, Canada) & Martin Roderick (Durham Uni, UK)
Deaf PhD Candidate at Western University | Deaf Studies in Race & Sports & Disability | Arsenal Fan | Blogger
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Physical Activity and Health, University of the West of Scotland
Leading multi-disciplinary department of sport and exercise sciences. Consistently ranked in the UK Top 10 best sport-related UG degrees. Top 100 QS World Rankings for sport-related subjects.
https://www.dur.ac.uk/departments/academic/sport-exercise-scien
Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. Specialising in lifetime stressor exposure, health, well-being, and performance.
International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise (QRSE). https://www.qrsesoc.com/
Lecturer, Swansea University | sport psychology, qualitative methods, athlete well-being
Historian of anatomy, disease, and medical books. Associate Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Medical school, Uni of St Andrews. Support Chester FC and edit the fanzine The Blue & White.
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