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My own creative style is essentially collaborative, and draws upon models and source material from a vast range of scholars, archives, disciplines and genres. I hugely value collaboration in terms of both research and dissemination. I was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-UKRI network Women In The Hills, which explores historical and contemporary evidence about the factors that constrain women’s participation in outdoor leisure. Rachel Hewitt is an award-winning writer whose books meld history, biography, memoir and nature-writing. They include A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade That Forged the Modern Mindand Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey . She lives in Yorkshire, has three daughters and until recently was a lecturer in creative writing at Newcastle University. Unwanted physical attention experienced by female spectators at men’s football matches in this country has more than doubled in the past eight years. One survey showed that nearly 60% of female runners are harassed and feel in danger. The number of women who have been killed while running since 2016 is higher than the number of women who were murdered while running in the 30 years before that. This seems to point to a real intensification of violence towards women taking part in sport outdoors. It’s certainly something I would say is a very normal part of my running experience, which is pretty awful. One of the worst effects of street harassment is women feeling so disempowered in outdoor space A trail-blazing book about women's fights to access the great outdoors - about how running took the author from bereavement to belonging Rachel Hewitt: A Revolution of Feeling review - from passions to emotions". theartsdesk.com. 10 December 2017.

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Another non-fiction book in the format of "author researches a subject, and interweaves their findings with a first-person narrative about their life during the process of researching". This format seems to be very popular at the moment, at least by the publishing industry. My creative projects are unified by the aim of understanding and representing processes of cultural change, and the effects of change on individuals’ lives; with particular focus on the lives of women who lived through pronounced changes regarding women’s rights and freedoms. I am a life-writer who uses group and single-life biography combined with memoir, in a way that opens out onto other modes of analysis, such as history of ideas, social/economic/cultural history, sociology, philosophy and psychology, creating a hybrid creative style. Absolutely. These days, I don’t run fast enough to get that massive endorphin burst that you get from fast running on flat ground. Instead, I get a different kind of joy, which is sensory. At the moment, it’s spring in Yorkshire and it smells amazing. And the light is changing, and it’s beautiful, and there’s this contrast between sometimes vast and expansive views and sometimes just little glimpses of a patch of snowdrops.

My third book, In Her Nature, is part-memoir, part-biography, which explores contemporary and historical experiences of women in public space, and the factors that constrain women’s freedom outdoors. With an initial focus on outdoor sport and leisure (especially trail-running, hiking and mountaineering), In Her Nature identifies and analyses the factors that make women’s experiences outdoors distinct from men’s, including caring responsibilities, clothing and kit provision, and street harassment and sexual violence. My book explores how men’s constraints on women’s freedom and safety in public space tighten and loosen under particular historical conditions, and I narrate the biography of one woman – mountaineer Elizabeth Le Blond (1860-1934) – who lived through a period in which women’s freedoms became significantly curtailed, before turning the lens onto the constrictions negotiated by contemporary women, including myself. Rachel Hewitt is a best-selling, award-winning writer of creative non-fiction, as well as a critic and broadcaster. She writes about the ‘great outdoors’, running, women and public space, grief and recovery, history and feminism, memoir and biography. She is is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Men drive women out of sporting clubs and competitions, leave us out of media coverage and intimidate us on the streets. Often, when men can’t reverse the progress of women’s rights in legislation, they turn to settings – like sports, streets or parks – where their behaviour is less regulated. It’s the numbers,” he replies. “Men have been running since, like, ancient Greece. But women only started around 1975. There are lots of women running now but it’s a really recent thing. So kit designers are playing catch-up.” Everyone is so very sad. My mother and I are like some kind of early Christian diptych of mourning, each of us imploring the other for relief. But I cannot be – have never been – what my mother seems to want and I cannot seem to give her what she appears to want now. This becomes too painful for us both. With intimate attention and in beautiful prose, IN HER NATURE moves deftly between the inner life and the great outdoors. Rachel Hewitt shows that not only do women have a history as runners, climbers and adventurers; we also have a right to the outdoors that is as crucial - and fragile - today as it ever was SARAH DITUM A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind (Granta Books, 2017); ISBN 978-1847085740