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An Autumn of swim-along interviews 🍂

From September through to November, I met over twenty-five Thames swimmers, sharing autumnal swims together come rain or shine. My interviewees have taken me as far upriver as Lechlade, a small Cotswolds town just over twenty miles from the source, and as far downriver as Canvey Island, a waterside community in Essex. The map below pinpoints the locations of swim-along interviews. Whilst waters changed from fresh to salty and leaves turned evermore golden, the joy of sharing

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7 days ago2 min read

Conferences: Wellbeing and outdoor swimming

A few weeks ago, I shared my reflections from my source to sea walk at The Emerging and New Researchers in the Geographies of Health & Impairment (ENRGHI) Blue Bodies conference. This conference explored wellbeing in blue spaces and was a fantastic opportunity to connect with other researchers exploring watery spaces in their work. Together with a fellow PhD researcher, Nikki Paterson , our talk explored themes of wellbeing, pollution, and entanglement in rivers that are mor

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Oct 31, 20251 min read