A Year of Immersion into the River Thames: Diving into the seasonal social worlds of river swimming

拟议的博士田野工作将利用定性的方法，逐步深入游泳运动员的社交世界，从游泳参与者观察到采访和GoPro视频日记。由贝茨博士和莫尔斯博士首创的GoPro日记是一种特别新颖的工具，可以访问游泳的多感官氛围。在参与者观察和半结构化访谈的补充下，拟议的博士学位交织着进行时空之旅的方法，在一年的周期内与泰晤士河游泳者(重新)连接和(重新)沉浸。与他们的上级密切合作，道德考量将是关键，将从一开始就建立道德审查的培训和准备。研究人员的安全将借鉴人种学田野工作的既定程序，将特别关注与野外行走和“身临其境”方法有关的问题，利用拟议的监督者的专业知识和支持，以及与在SOCSI进行的类似工作相关的既定研究安全程序和协议。

The proposed PhD fieldwork will utilise qualitative methods that progressively dive deeper into swimmers' social worlds from swim-along participant observation to interviews and GoPro video diaries. GoPro diaries, pioneered by Dr Bates and Dr Moles, are a particularly novel tool for accessing the multisensory atmospheres of swimming. Complemented by participant observation and semi-structured interviews, the proposed PhD interweaves methods to conduct a spatial-temporal journey, (re)connecting and (re)immersing with Thames swimmers over a one-year cycle. Working closely with their supervsiors, ethical considerations will be key and training and preparation for ethical clearance will be built in from the start. Researcher safety will draw on established procedures for ethnographic fieldwork, particular attention will be paid to issues connected to walking and 'immersive' methods in wild spaces, drawing on the expertise and support of the proposed supervsiors and established research safety procedures and protocols associated with similar work that has been conducted in SOCSI.