Dr Eilis Lanclus is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. She holds a BA in Political Science and Sociology (2015) and an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2018) from KU Leuven, Belgium. In 2023, she completed a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from KU Leuven on the contemporary meanings and values of endurance through the lens of ultra-trail running and walking in Belgium. Eilis is an active member of the International Network of Sport Anthropology (INSA) since its inception in 2020.
Dr Lanclus’ research interests are situated at the intersection of anthropology of sports, leisure, environment, endurance, and sensory ethnography. Her doctoral research focused on the contemporary meanings and values of endurance through the practices of ultra-trail running and walking in Belgium. Currently, as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, she conducts research on human-environment relations in trail sports such as trail running, hiking, and off-road cycling. Through a sensory ethnography, she examines how trail sport participants in the UK engage with the trails and natural environments in which they practice their sports, in collaboration with Trash Free Trails.