University endurance talk pushes boundaries

The University of Wolverhampton is hosting a free family friendly public talk that offers a fascinating insight into what it takes to prepare for an extreme expedition. 

The University’s Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing has secured Rosie Stancer to speak at the free event. Rosie has dedicated the last 30 years of her life to expeditions of growing diversity, from solo polar expeditions to both the South and North Pole, and journeys to the hotter sands, mud and mountains of a variety of deserts. Environmental research provides the common denominator to each of her expeditions along with scientific research on the psychological and physical impact of immersion in extreme environments for prolonged periods. 

Joining Rosie will be Sergeant Major Sheridan Lucas who is part of the first military all-female team currently preparing to complete the ‘world's toughest row’ - an Atlantic crossing in a rowing boat. 

The Beyond Boundaries: Realising your potential talk is being held on Wednesday 5 July 2023 from 6.30 pm until 8.00 pm in the Samuel Johnson Building at the University’s Walsall Campus. Bookings can be made here. 

Sport and Exercise Psychologists from the University have conducted and published research with Rosie Stancer to help others in preparing for their own expeditions. Professor Tracey Devonport, Dr Carla Meijen, Juliette Lloyd, and Professor Andy Lane monitored psychological states, workload, and coping strategies for the full duration of two of Rosie’s expeditions. This was in order to explore challenges faced, coping mechanisms used at different moments of the expedition, and how effective these were.