Events
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Past events
Dancing Across Disciplines
Keen to move and be moved? Join us for a dynamic 1-day event exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces, and communities.
Co-Production and Physical Activity
A day focussing on co-production research attending to questions of movement, physical activity and medical humanities.
Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement, and Wellbeing
Join us for a hybrid roundtable on “Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement, and Wellbeing”.
Towards Tourettic Studies: The Future of Tourette Syndrome Research
An interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome.
What’s ‘new’ about matrescence?
A roundtable on the transformations of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and reproduction, joined by guest speaker Dr Pragya Agarwal.
A Wheely Workshop
Join us for a lively day of discussion and insight into research and creative practice that engages with an array of wheeled technologies.
Diverse Bodies Rolling Together
Dr Indigo Willing & Dr Esther Sayers discuss their multidisciplinary approach in highlighting community-led change in skateboarding
Slowing, Stillness & Sedentarism: Interdisciplinary Methodologies Workshop
A series of talks and practical sessions exploring slowing, stillness, and how this relates to health and wellbeing.
Is physical activity for any-body?
In this hybrid seminar, Dr Meridith Griffin discusses lived, embodied experiences of in/exclusion and imagined futures.
‘Power Across Platforms’: 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.
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.
Care Aesthetics and Movement
A talk by James Thompson (University of Manchester) with a response from Emily Tupper, and a conversation chaired by Fiona Johnstone.
Narrative Interventions in Physiotherapy
Hedda Eik discusses the benefits of narrative perspectives on physiotherapeutic interventions for women with fibromyalgia.
Medical Humanities and Sport and Exercise Sciences: An invitation to dialogue
The first event from the Moving Bodies Lab, bringing together representatives from the disciplines of sport and exercise sciences and medical and health humanities.
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