My PhD research traces the different health motivations, responses, and complications of OWS at Windermere, England’s largest lake in the Lake District National Park. Specifically, the research questions the different bodily, socio-cultural, political, and environmental factors that shape these relational experiences of ‘healthy’ OWS practice. This wet, psychogeographically influenced, ethnographic inquiry is situated at two popular public bathing sites (Rayrigg Meadow and Millerground) across a full 12-month season. The PhD will make novel methodological contributions to health geographies, psychogeographies, and other transdisciplinary OWS research, whilst encouraging broader public engagement with existing (and potential) communities invested in Windermere. For more information, please visit: www.swimdermere.com

Publications:

Butler-Eldridge, T. (2021). Taking a Pedagogic Chance with Psychogeography. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021 – 3rd Sept. [Online]. Royal Geographical Society: London.

Mcphie, J. and Butler-Eldridge, T. (2021). Slam Poetry, Giant Specs and a Psychogeography Monopoly Board: Progressive Directions for Outdoor Facilitation. In: Palmer, C. (Eds.). Arts-Based Learning in Outdoor Education. Sport and Wellbeing Press: Preston.

Butler-Eldridge, T., Bridger, A., Richardson, T., Cole, S. and Mcphie, J. (2019). Definitions, Debates and Directions for Contemporary Psychogeography. The Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography – 6th Sept. University of Huddersfield: Huddersfield.