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Dr Abi Lafbery on wild swimming, waterways, and how we swim in a changing world
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Dr Abi Lafbery has a PhD in outdoor swimming from Lancaster University in the UK. Her thesis focussed on the health, thoughts, experiences and behaviours of wild/open water swimmers, the health of the water they swim in, and swimmers’ impacts on waterways. For almost five years she was researching and writing about swimming, flora and fauna, pollution, and climate. In this episode we talk about Abi’s own swimming in
