by Charlotte Benkowtiz Parkrun, a worldwide community-based physical activity initiative, offers free, weekly, 5-kilometer runs in parks across the globe. Held every Saturday morning, parkrun brings together people of all ages and abilities, fostering physical activity and social connection. Parkrun participation includes running or walking the 5k, and volunteering, as the local events are organised […]
PhD Reflections – Placement at La Trobe University in Melbourne
International collaboration is important to widen opportunities for research, to work collaborative on research and on innovation and to share good practice. Since 2019 Sheffield Hallam University has a strategic partnership with La Trobe University, and, as part of this, funds three PhDs per year. I am part of this PhD programme – I am […]
Repetition without repetition? What variability in your stride pattern may tell you about your injury risk.
This week saw the 19th anniversary of parkrun! On Saturday 2nd October 2004, 13 people turned up at Bushy Park in London to complete the very first parkrun. Step forward to last weekend and almost 300,000 individuals completed a parkrun or junior parkrun at almost over 2450 events worldwide, whilst being supported by more than […]
Happy 19th Birthday parkrun
parkrun (usually written with a small ‘p’) is 19 years old: still a teenager but with a good idea of what it wants to be when it grows up. In this article, I describe how parkrun has evolved during the first quarter of this century into one of the most important public health initiatives in […]
PhD reflections: Building a Healthier World in Dublin
As part of our interdisciplinary work in the Sports Engineering Research Group we help run the parkrun Research Board at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University. One of our parkrun PhD students, Allison Dunne, reflects back on her experience of presenting at the recent Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems International Research Conference […]
Engineering Sport 