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Veronique’s work is titled Run Commute London to Cambridge and will be on display at the Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge from 29th January 2018 – 01 February 2018. Dr Veronique Chance will be running from London Liverpool Street to Cambridge as part of the Art Language Location display, which is themed around the concept of “place”. She will track her route using GPS, and images of her surroundings will then be projected live from her phone onto a paper map displayed in the Ruskin Gallery, allowing visitors to follow the journey. Veronique will be running the 60 miles route across four days and on completion of the run, the clothing and accessories used along the way will form part of the exhibition.

Convenors: Catherine Waite (University of Northampton), Simon Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London/Birmingham City University), Nick Wise (Liverpool John Moores University), Jacky Tivers (Oxford Brookes University), Paul Gilchrist (University of Brighton) Call for Papers: Teaching the Geographies of Sport Sponsored by: Higher Education Research Group & Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group Engagement with the geographies of sport has arguably increased in recent years and has become more prominent in university classrooms, given the significance of sport from the standpoint of popular culture to promoting wellbeing. Are the geographies of sport being taught as standalone modules, or are sports focused case studies being used to exemplify geographical theories, concepts and processes. To enable this discussion we are seeking short papers (ten minutes in length) to capture a range of perspectives, approaches and activities, followed by an inclusive discussion among session participants.

The title of the article is ‘Runners vs pedestrians: who should give way to whom? ‘ and summarises some of the findings from my first ever research project into running, which became our ‘Jography: Exploring Meanings, Experiences and Spatialities of Recreational Road-running‘ journal article in Mobilities. I initially pitched it to the Guardian Running Blog as a response to the Putney Bridge incident, when a runner unnecessarily pushed a pedestrian into the path of a bus. Luckily, no one was badly injured here (they very easily could have been) and the incident did thrust the issue of encounters between runners and pedestrians into the public conversation. So, the use of this incident as a hook is subdued in the final piece, but luckily the lovely people at the Guardian still thought the topic was interesting enough to publish now.

I received some lovely news last week, that I was successful in the inaugural New Voices award ran by the Mobile Lives Forum for my work on running as transport. They are a great organisation who is quickly becoming a go-to hub for all things mobilities-related, with their website featuring fantastic resources around the key ideas in mobility studies, the latest mobilities news and events, and research funded by the Mobile Lives Forum itself. I will be featured as one of the inaugural 10 ‘New Voices’, with an article summarising my work on running as transport, as well as the thesis itself, being profiled on the Mobile Lives Forum website at some point between September 2017 and July 2018. I feel extremely honoured and humbled by this and owe a great debt of gratitude to my excellent MA thesis supervisors at RHUL, Prof. Phil Crang and Dr Oli Mould, as well as to all the runners and run commuters who inspired and continue to inspire my work.