I’m a Running Researcher is a series of blog posts profiling people who research running. Each one explores why they research running, how they research it and some of their key findings. Click the links below to find out more about each person. If there’s someone I think I should profile, please let me know.
Find out more about the series in this introductory post.
| # | Name | Running topics studied | Discipline | Published Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Richard Shipway | Experiences of distance runners, running events, social worlds, identity, healthy lifestyles. | Sport, Leisure, Events and Tourism Studies | May 2023 |
| 40 | Jess Macbeth | Experiences of visually impaired runners | Sport studies | November 2022 |
| 40 | Ben Powis | Experiences of visually impaired runners | Sociology of sport | November 2022 |
| 39 | Sarah Ackland | Experiences of a woman runner’s body in public space | Architecture | September 2022 |
| 38 | Simone Tulumello | Running as an ethnographic method | Geography & urban studies | September 2022 |
| 37 | Alister McCormick | Psychological running interventions, crowd encouragement & beginner runners’ journeys | Sport & Exercise Psychology | February 2022 |
| 36 | Tim Gorichanaz | Runners’ information use, ultra-running cultures, why we run. | Information science & philosophy | February 2022 |
| 35 | Una McGahern | Running routes, exercising rights to move, sense of belonging, place in the city. | Politics | January 2022 |
| 34 | Assaf Lev | Pleasure, pain, social recognition and identity in running. | Sport and exercise Anthropology | January 2022 |
| 33 | Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton | Online running communities, identities and linguistic features. | Linguistics and English Language | December 2021 |
| 32 | Noel Salazar | Understandings of endurance & pace, (mis)use running-related technologies, running as method. | Social & cultural anthropology | December 2021 |
| 31 | Sara MacBride-Stewart | Trail running, sustainability, wellbeing, runnability & women’s running. | Environmental Sociology | December 2021 |
| 30 | Catherine Palmer | Running, charity events, philanthropy, gendered labour and running methods. | Interdisciplinary social scientist and critical interpretivist | November 2021 |
| 29 | Rob Smith | Running navigation, organisation of perception and accomplishment of place. | Sociology & Ethnography | November 2021 |
| 28 | Jonas Larsen | Running rhythms, events, embodiment, tourism, weather and marathons. | Mobility & urban studies | October 2021 |
| 27 | Josep Capsí | Growth of running practices in Valencia. | Sociology & Sport Science | October 2021 |
| 26 | Laura Johnson | Beginners running programmes, participant motivation, attendance and well-being; runners’ thought processes and attentional focus. | Sport & Exercise Psychology | September 2021 |
| 25 | Ciara Everard | Running injury experiences & narratives. | Sport Psychology | September 2021 |
| 24 | François Madoré | Geography of running in France. | Geography | August 2021 |
| 24 | Stéphane Loret | Geography of running in France. | Digital Humanities | August 2021 |
| 23 | Ross Wadey | Runners’ experiences of harassment, and injuries. | Sport Psychology | August 2021 |
| 22 | Michael Crawley | Ethiopian running cultures, athletics development and macro-economic development. | Social Anthropology | July 2021 |
| 21 | Neil Baxter | Running history, social factors and cultural change. | Sociology | July 2021 |
| 20 | Jesse Couture | Running crews, digital technologies, self-tracking. | Kinesiology & Sport Sociology | June 2021 |
| 19 | Alicia Smith-Tran | Experiences of marginalised runners, Black middle-class women running. | Sociology | June 2021 |
| 18 | Laura Williams | Running, psychogeography, information behaviours in running. | Information Studies | June 2021 |
| 17 | Holly Weir | Running and green spaces during the Covid-19 pandemic. | Urban Studies & Transport | May 2021 |
| 16 | Toomas Gross | Recreational running in Estonia, middle-classness, good-life, running addiction, running bodies, senses & experiments. | Anthropology | May 2021 |
| 15 | Jack Layton | Running in public space, sense of place, inclusion, democracy. | Geography | April 2021 |
| 14 | Katy Kennedy | Beginner runner groups, experiences and physical activity behaviour. | Psychology | April 2021 |
| 13 | Dave Hindley | Parkrun, inclusive leisure spaces, sociability, shared experiences, runner harassment. | Sport Sociology | March 2021 |
| 12 | Rob Mann | Social worlds of parkrun, injury and illness in adolescent distance runners. | Sport & Health Sciences | March 2021 |
| 11 | Noora Ronkainen | Meaning in running, running identity construction/disruption. | Sport Psychology & Theology | February 2021 |
| 10 | Helen Quirk | Parkrun, health, happiness, physical activity levels, motivations, social connections. | Psychology & Public Health | February 2021 |
| 9 | Emily Tupper | Running volunteer programmes, GoodGym. | Anthropology | January 2021 |
| 8 | Julie Cidell | Running events, spaces, places and mobilities. | Geography | January 2021 |
| 7 | Hannah Borenstein | Running, gender, race, labour, culture, global capitalism, Ethiopia, athletics market. | Anthropology | December 2020 |
| 6 | Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson | Running experiences, senses, weather, endurance work & running together. | Sociology & Physical Culture Studies | December 2020 |
| 5 | Ben Murphy | Cultural-economics of ultra-running boom, trail running and sensory engagement, experience of green spaces. | Geography | December 2020 |
| 4 | Stephanie Merchant | Running, technology and emotional relationship with spaces, nature and parkrun, canine-cross & running with dogs. | Geography & Sport Sociology | November 2020 |
| 3 | John Hockey | Running injury recovery, habitual and mundane practices, running identity, running senses, space and place. | Sociology | November 2020 |
| 2 | Trish Jackman | Optimal experiences in running. | Sport Psychology | October 2020 |
| 1 | Sam Hayes | Running, green space, mental health & wellbeing, Covid-19 and running. | Planning & Geography | October 2020 |
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