Next week, join us for a dynamic day exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces, and communities 🩰
📆 Tuesday 28 April, 10am-4pm
📍 Durham
Book your free spot:
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I wrote about the unusual phenomenon of *reality shifting* for @psychmag.bsky.social - have a look, and get in touch if you've ever travelled to another world.
Yes, we've gone full Narnia.
In bloom: nurturing lived experience researchers and responsiveness – reflections and recommendations from an intersectional lens
Sumedha Verma
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🌷My book is available at de Gruyter:
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❣️Please order it for your institutional library❣️
if you are interested in #collaborativegrammar, people collaboratively producing turns, #grammarofspokenlanguage, #clausecombining, #socialinteraction & much more! #emca☘️
Here comes the ☀️
If anyone is interested in narrative and physical activity do get in touch. I co-lead the narrative lab practices lab within @durhamimh.bsky.social that is funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social . We want to hear more about great work / people interested in narrative and storytelling for health
#ISBNPA2026 Pre-Conference #Workshop
This interactive workshop equips participants with practical narrative tools to communicate science with clarity, authenticity, and impact.
Learn more and register here: https://loom.ly/rITDO_s
Great to see narrative work here. There has been wonderful narrative research in PA for some time and amplifying the value of stories (and their dangers) for / as research and for communicating it are so important. Yeah!
Love this message about schools, libraries and books, which we need far more than trillions of dollars being spent on AI?
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #edchat
Literary fiction in a penguin branded orange vending machine
A Penguin Books vending machine, with a selection of books I wouldn’t have expected to see at a train station
ICYMI – Recordings from the one-day workshop 'The Senses and Medical Humanities' organised by @claireturner.bsky.social of our Affective Experience Lab are now available to watch online. Thanks to everyone who joined us for this event!
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Our spring newsletter is out! 🌸 This edition features some fascinating publications by our researchers, highlights from @the-polyphony.bsky.social and, as always, lots of upcoming free events.
Read it online:
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'Moving Intersectionality: Chasing the Data Glow and the Dull Thud' powerpoint slide on a presentation. There are people sitting at tables listening
Image of the building at Durham Uni with stairs and glass panel ceilings
Image of a set of codesigned cards based on Elinor Ostrom’s principles for collaborative group working.
🚆A Day Trip to Durham – Co-production and Physical Activity Event
Our Co-production Lead, Liddie, wrote about her recent trip up to Durham Uni and reflections on wider co-production work!
Read more 👇
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🎉 Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences ranked in the Top 100 sport-related departments in world. 🎉
We have been ranked in the Top 100 in the prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject. We have continued this top 100 position since 2020.
More here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
'Sexism in football - a problem that isn't going away', covered by BBC Sport including an interview with @staceypope.bsky.social as a leading expert on female football fans and gender inequality in sport.
Take a look at the full BBC Sport piece: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Co‑production has huge potential to reshape sport, exercise, & health research. @brettsmithprof.bsky.social et al. tackles the gap in practical resources; clarifying concepts, challenges and highlighting why qualitative expertise is essential for doing co‑production well: doi.org/10.1080/2159...
⚽Sexism in football, a problem that isn't going away!⚽
DSES' Professor @staceypope.bsky.social, a leading expert on women football fans was recently part of a BBC interview on the topic.
To read/listen to the BBC interview please follow this link: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
📣 New publication! @calvirgi.bsky.social and @brettsmithprof.bsky.social set out a new agenda for the use of Conversational Analysis in research in Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. #openaccess
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📺 Latest Co-production Webinar has launched!
In this session, we explore the common challenges in co-production and practical ways to overcome them.
You can watch back on our YouTube 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM-8...
Or webpage 👇
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An ethnographic study on the replication crisis suggests psychological phenomena are ‘enacted’ in practice, shaped by emotions & relational dynamics. But does this overlook the independent reality of phenomena? Thought-provoking take on the replication debate.
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New article led by Adam Gemar, with @rachelallison.bsky.social and DSES' Prof. @staceypope.bsky.social on Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of Women’s Sport is now published in the Communication & Sport journal accessible here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/14/2
🎉 Join us on 20 April to celebrate 25 years of Medical Humanities at Durham and honour Professor Jane Macnaughton, whose work has helped shape the field and establish Durham as a global hub for medical humanities research.
Learn more and register 👇️
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📣Very proud that @brettsmithprof.bsky.social ‘s and my paper on Advancing Conversation Analysis in Sport and Exercise Sciences is out for ‘Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health’!!! ⭐️
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🎉 Celebrating Social Workers as Physical Activity Messengers 🎉
We want to say thank you to all the social workers who have helped co-produce Moving Social Work and realise its impact. Funded by Sport England and NIHR and led by Professor Brett Smith in collaboration with Disability Rights UK.
In this collaborative article, led by Prof. Gavin Andrews (McMaster University) with DSES' @cassie-phoenix.bsky.social and Dr Meridith Griffin (McMaster Uni) they explore speed as a key process in shaping space; its materiality's, textures and unfolding rhythms. More here: doi.org/10.1177/2634...
Explore how co-production can transform physical activity research and practice 🚶
Join researchers, practitioners, and communities for an exciting day of discussion, insights, and collaboration on Tue 24 March.
Register here:
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Webinar to Address the Use of Technology in Paralympic Sport (in Spanish)
A webinar titled “Use of Technology in Paralympic Sport” will take place on March 24, 2026, at 17:00 (Chile time), organized by Kinvent. The session will be delivered in Spanish and will explore how technological tools are…
Planning to host an online-only version of this workshop in May (provisionally 20th). Let me know if you'd be interested in presenting your work - there are still several slots available!
For those interested who might read this!!!
