The interpretation of landscape, the significance of walking and the relationships that exist between them are rarely considered or critically examined in much of leisure research or outdoor pedagogic practice, despite their significance within other fields of academic study suc…
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This thesis muddies the idea of singular being, tracing the footprints of nature writer and poet Edward Thomas, from the beginning of his epically creative final four years, to the site where he died in 1917, during the Battle of Arras. It is presented as a series of engagements…
Background: It is established that people with intellectual disabilities (ID) have an increased risk of poorer health than the general population. This population are more likely to experience obesity, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and premature death. The risks of obe…
1) The carpopodite extensor muscle of Carcinus maenas and Homarus americanus demonstrated regional localization of at least three types of fibre: fast phasic, slow tonic and intermediate. A specific area of the extensor, area 1, was identifiable in extensors from different anima…
In the village of Sleepy Hollow, NY, local author Washington Irving’s 1819 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is the basis for a Halloween season tourism industry. Combining a rhetorical analysis enriched by ethnographic fieldwork with affect theory literature, this disse…
Terrestrial excursions have been observed in multiple lineages of marine and freshwater fishes. These ventures into the terrestrial environment may be used when fish are searching out new habitat during drought, escaping predation, laying eggs, or seeking food sources. The physi…
I see my everyday life and my art practice as connected by the activity of walking. My art practice attempts to express poetic qualities of discarded (broken) objects found in my everyday life and in my walking (drifting). Overall, this practice is guided by a sharpened sensibil…
Peregrination can refer to a metaphor for the course of a person’s life, a spiritual pilgrimage, the physical act of travel, an account of a journey, and even a scholarly study. My dissertation is a peregrination of peregrinations; it is a multipronged study of what I call “ambu…