EDEN PROJECT (THE) Riya Evani Sachdeva, Christ Church, First Year Undergraduate, BA Geography, Remote internship Work Projects The Eden Project was working in conjunction with LimeLight Sports which is a sports marketing company who have run events such as London Triathlon, Asics 10k and Hackney Half-marathon. The Eden Project wanted to create their own running event which had a more environmental focus and focused on educating people about the environment with an aim of running it 4 times a year to coincide with different seasons. During the internship, I was one of 3 Oxford interns and was assigned to the research element of the project. My role included me finding research materials on various topics to do with benefits of spending time in nature, physical and mental benefits of running, growth and trajectory of virtual sporting events and many other topics. I had to make sure that these sources were credible and after conducting extensive research across 12 topics in total, I extracted various highlights and facts that could be made into infographics and posted on social media to encourage others to participate in our Run. For the next stage of the internship, I developed a research and evaluation plan which detailed every aspect of the project from it's initial aims, what outcomes we wanted to see, stakeholders and how we were going to carry out the event. By collaborating with others and receiving relevant guidance along the way, I filled in the plan to make it comprehensive enough for the team to take forward. From our initial research, I identified potential research gaps/evidence gaps i.e. topics which didn't have any evidence on the internet. I collated these together and designed research questions around these that we could pose to runners after the event in a post-event survey so we could collect up-to-date and relevant research.
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