This post presents a selection of statistics covering a range of running demographics, from participation rates and gender balance to ethnicity and disability. …
Author: Neil Baxter
Here's a list of key running statistics based on sources including the Big Running Survey, which canvased the opinions of 2,700 runners on their running practices, motivations and attitudes. Follow the links for more detail. …
There is a paradox at the heart of running: It is simultaneously the most accessible of sports and one of the most socially elitist. …
Why do I spend so much of my time researching running?
I’ve been asked variants of this question on many occasions… I’ve even asked it myself a couple of times at low moments during my PhD!
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I was at the University of Warwick for the first VIBE workshop last week. It’s part of a course that aims to help final year PhD students and early career academics in the social sciences engage
…At the moment, as well as starting this blog, I’m also building a new website for my running research.
Essentially it will be a portal for all my sociology of running related work, but also a
…I’ve set up this website as a place where I can post articles, research findings, ideas and other miscellany broadly related to my research.
It’ll contain a mixture of updates on active projects, comment on findings
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