The Channel 4 documentary ‘Dirty Business’ left me feeling incredibly angry and depressed about the state of the waters in the UK. The research of Safia Bailey (featured recently) and Nikki Paterson offers a source of optimism that the environment has not been forgotten. I spoke to Nikki in early 2026 about her research and…
Category: Ecological and Human Wellbeing
New in Chats, Stories and Memories: A Conversation with Safia Bailey
Safia Bailey is a postgraduate researcher at the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences at Cardiff University. She is currently conducting her PhD research into the swimming communities of England’s longest river: the Thames. Her research aims to explore the inclusions and exclusions of this community, the bodily entanglements that arise from immersion into…
An Anthropology of Swimming 