Outputs (48)

Manoeuvring rural mobility policy for active and sustainable travel (2025)
Journal Article
Asker, C., McGuire, L., Pollard, T., Barr, S., Green, J., Phoenix, C., & Guell, C. (2025). Manoeuvring rural mobility policy for active and sustainable travel. Social Science & Medicine, Article 118074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118074

Promoting “slow mobilities” and low carbon transport alternatives, through supporting active and sustainable travel (AST, including walking, cycling, wheeling, and public transport), is a priority for both public health and net zero... Read More about Manoeuvring rural mobility policy for active and sustainable travel.

Arts-based research: Attending to methods (2025)
Journal Article
Phoenix, C., & Chamberlain, K. (online). Arts-based research: Attending to methods. Methods in Psychology, Article 100179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2025.100179

Arts-based research covers a considerable diversity of approaches and uses in research and is not readily amenable to definition, although definitions have been offered. For instance, McNiff (2018, p. 24) has described arts-based research “as a proce... Read More about Arts-based research: Attending to methods.

Speed as an expression and texture of space: Theory at play in a movement activity (2024)
Journal Article
Andrews, G. J., Griffin, M., & Phoenix, C. (2024). Speed as an expression and texture of space: Theory at play in a movement activity. Environment and Planning F, 3(3), 134-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825241263982

In recent years, following new materialist, posthumanist and non-representational turns, human geography has increasingly understood the worlds it studies as vital, immediate and emergent. As part of this vision, studies have empirically animated and... Read More about Speed as an expression and texture of space: Theory at play in a movement activity.

“More than just a walk in the park”: A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration of community-based walking sport programmes for middle-aged and older adults (2023)
Journal Article
Sivaramakrishnan, H., Phoenix, C., Quested, E., Thogersen-Ntoumani, C., Gucciardi, D. F., Cheval, B., & Ntoumanis, N. (2023). “More than just a walk in the park”: A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration of community-based walking sport programmes for middle-aged and older adults. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 15(6), 772-788. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2197450

In spite of the large-scale growth of walking sport (WS) programmes globally, limited research has explored the experiences of the key stakeholders involved in such programmes (i.e., decision-makers, facilitators, and players). We aimed to explore st... Read More about “More than just a walk in the park”: A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration of community-based walking sport programmes for middle-aged and older adults.

Relationships between Recreation and Pollution When Striving for Wellbeing in Blue Spaces (2022)
Journal Article
Evers, C., & Phoenix, C. (2022). Relationships between Recreation and Pollution When Striving for Wellbeing in Blue Spaces. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(7), Article 4170. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074170

Our aim for this research was to identify and examine how recreation enthusiasts cope with and mitigate the violence of pollution as they strive for wellbeing in polluted “blue spaces” (e.g., seas, oceans). Our methodology to undertake the research w... Read More about Relationships between Recreation and Pollution When Striving for Wellbeing in Blue Spaces.

Qualitative research in sports studies: challenges, possibilities and the current state of play (2021)
Journal Article
Evans, A. B., Barker-Ruchti, N., Blackwell, J., Clay, G., Dowling, F., Frydendal, S., Gliemann Hybholt, M., Hausken-Sutter, S. E., Lenneis, V., Malcolm, D., Phoenix, C., Smith, B., Svendler Nielsen, C., Wilcock, L., Williams, O., & Winther, H. (2021). Qualitative research in sports studies: challenges, possibilities and the current state of play. European Journal for Sport and Society, 18(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2021.1899969

The role of sport-based social networks in the management of long-term health conditions: Insights from the World Transplant Games (2020)
Journal Article
Wiltshire, G., Clarke, N. J., Phoenix, C., & Bescoby, C. (2022). The role of sport-based social networks in the management of long-term health conditions: Insights from the World Transplant Games. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(2), 256-272. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690220979202

In the context of an increasing clinical need to better support self-management for people living with long-term health conditions an interest in the role of social networks has emerged. Given that sport participation often provides opportunities for... Read More about The role of sport-based social networks in the management of long-term health conditions: Insights from the World Transplant Games.

Organ Transplant Recipients’ Experiences of Physical Activity: Health, Self-Care, and Transliminality (2020)
Journal Article
Wiltshire, G., Clarke, N. J., Phoenix, C., & Bescoby, C. (2020). Organ Transplant Recipients’ Experiences of Physical Activity: Health, Self-Care, and Transliminality. Qualitative Health Research, 31(2), 385-398. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732320967915

Physical activity (PA) is an important lifestyle component of long-term health management for organ transplant recipients, yet little is known about recipients’ experiences of PA. The purpose of this study was to shed light on this experience and to... Read More about Organ Transplant Recipients’ Experiences of Physical Activity: Health, Self-Care, and Transliminality.

Segregation and the Sea: Toward a Critical Understanding of Race and Coastal Blue Space in Greater Miami (2020)
Journal Article
Phoenix, C., Bell, S. L., & Hollenbeck, J. (2021). Segregation and the Sea: Toward a Critical Understanding of Race and Coastal Blue Space in Greater Miami. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 45(2), 115-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723520950536

There is a growing body of research signaling the health and wellbeing benefits of being in blue space. Here, we advance this intellectual agenda by critically examining perceptions and experiences of coastal blue space among residents of a disadvant... Read More about Segregation and the Sea: Toward a Critical Understanding of Race and Coastal Blue Space in Greater Miami.

Exploring older people's experiences of ageing and ageism: A pilot qualitative piece from Costa Rica, The Gambia, Pakistan and Serbia (2020)
Report
Phoenix, C. (2020). Exploring older people's experiences of ageing and ageism: A pilot qualitative piece from Costa Rica, The Gambia, Pakistan and Serbia. [No known commissioning body]

Research on experiences of ageism and age discrimination in lower and middleincome countries is rare. In order to advocate and campaign effectively for an end to ageism and age discrimination, an understanding of older people’s experiences of ageing,... Read More about Exploring older people's experiences of ageing and ageism: A pilot qualitative piece from Costa Rica, The Gambia, Pakistan and Serbia.