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Articles on walk

May 8, 2020

Finding ways to move your body while social distancing

Renee J. Rogers, University of Pittsburgh

Physical activity is important for all kinds of health reasons, even in quarantine.

October 10, 2019

Rebecca Bentley, The University of Melbourne and Hannah Badland, RMIT University

We just need shops, cafes and other services within easy reach to get us walking extra minutes in our busy days.

February 18, 2019

Ruth Dalton, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Other people influence how we vote, what jobs we apply for, which gadgets we buy – so of course they influence how we get around the city.

February 8, 2018

Peter Falkingham, Liverpool John Moores University

Little skates that 'walk' across the ocean floor show how fish brains evolved to pave the way for working legs.

Rebecca Bentley
Professor of Social Epidemiology, Principal Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Hannah Badland
Deputy Director, Centre for Urban Research; Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
Ruth Dalton
Professor of Architecture, Lancaster University
Peter Falkingham
Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Biology, Liverpool John Moores University
Renee J. Rogers
Associate Professor of Health and Physical Activity - Programming Director, Pitt Healthy Lifestyle Institute, University of Pittsburgh