Media

August 23, 2011, BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire

Listen here for a brief local radio interview with Annie Oaten about my successful Catalina Channel swim in July 2011.

April 2011, H2Open, Issue 2

The nice people at H2Open magazine - a new publication specialising in open water swimming - included a nice feature on the research. Click here for a pdf of the article.

20 October, 2010 The Sociological Imagination

Listen to a podcast interview with Mark Carrigan, editor of Sociological Imagination - an online magazine exploring the possibilities of politically engaged social science.

11 August, 2010 Woman's Hour

Listen to an interview on Women and Endurance Sports by Jenni Murray with professional Ironman triathlete, Cat Morrison, and me.

19 July, 2010 The Guardian

Click on the picture for a pdf of the article. You can also find the online version of the article here - and check out the comments from all the angry people who don't seem to like sociologists....or feminists....or swimmers very much!

July 2010, Feminist and Women's Studies Association Newsletter (Issue 56)

You can find the pdf of a short article on my research project here.

Presentations

"If I could bottle this feeling...": Channel swimming, pleasure and positive deviance

2 February, 2011, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

Click on the picture for the pdf of the powerpoint presentation that accompanied this talk. You can also access a podcast of this seminar here .

Reports

July 2010: Long Distance Training Camps: A Subjective Comparison

This report is based on my own experiences of long distance training camps in Malta, Jersey and Cork from April - June 2010. This is a subjective account of those camps which aims to help those swimmers interested in joining a training camp or week to choose which is most appropriate for their needs, and at what stage in the training process. These are the views of the author only from her perspective as a swimmer in training for the Channel. You can download the pdf of the report here.

Contact:

TEL: 024 76575129

k dot throsby at warwick dot ac dot uk

The Long Swim (blog)

Research update

I made the final shortlist for the Leverhulme Trust's research fellowship (a year off teaching to write the swimming book), but didn't make the final cut. So, back to the drawing board on that front.

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The second journal article for the project was submitted two days ago to Body &Society. It's called "'You can't be too vain to gain if you want to swim the Channel': marathon swimming and the construction of heroic fatness". Fingers crossed that they like it!

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I've had conference papers accepted for two conferences in July: Sport and Society in Cambridge, and the International Sport and Society Assocation in Glasgow.

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First journal article for the project has survived the first round of reviewing with Feminist Review. I got some very encouraging and helpful comments, with good suggestions for revisions to the paper. Good news.

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The coding of the data has begun...not a very high tech approach, but it's going well.