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Martin D. Jones: Academic Research

I am a first year Ph.D student at Aberystwyth University in West Wales. My Ph.D thesis centres on research into physical and social participation in walking and hiking practices in Wales.

Despite the ostensibly universal appeal of walking, as John Wylie (2005) argues, there no such thing as 'walking-in-itself'. Thus, walking as both institutionalised activity and bodily movement has both a cultural character and a politics that usually remain unacknowledged, and these are likely to impact on levels and patterns of participation.

Long-awaited mobile phone charger waste reduction exercise bows to commercial interests

Tue, 30/06/2009 - 14:34 — martinofmoscow

A single charger, bought separately, that you can use for all mobile phones in your household addressing the waste-mountain of the numerous different types of charger, many defunct, that manufacturers include in the boxes of new mobile phones. Sounds like a good idea doesn't it? If you're buying a mobile phone for the first time, there's apparently no issue, but if, like me, you have already acquired a tangle of identical chargers the size of a tumbleweed, that are to be made defunct by the new universal changer, questions beg to be answered.

Off to Cardiff

Tue, 23/06/2009 - 19:55 — martinofmoscow

Well, despite a distinct lack of a plan, I'm off to Cardiff tomorrow to begin my Ph.D walking groups research. Don't particularly know what to expect, but I'm hoping the bewildered smile I've perfected over the last academic year will present itself as an endearing quality that will make people want to help me out. Incidentally, if you're a walker/hiker, keen or otherwise, drop me an email! I'd love to talk to you.

Anyway, back to doing what I should have done already... Interview schedules... duhh

Alarming Arrest Footage

Tue, 23/06/2009 - 19:32 — martinofmoscow

Truly alarming footage was published in the Guardian yesterday of the arrest of two protesters whose only 'crime' was asking an officer to identify himself, something he was legally required to do.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/jun/21/fit-watch-kingsn...

Biotech / GM Food News Archive

Tue, 23/06/2009 - 19:24 — martinofmoscow

While no longer maintained, this archive records some of the major news stories surrounding the encroachment of biotechnology, especially in agricultural applications in the late 1990s: http://www.global-reality.com/biotech

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