Author Archives: benedictwheeler
What Accounts for ‘England’s green and pleasant land’?
What accounts for ‘England’s green and pleasant land’? A panel data analysis of mental health and land cover types in rural England This study was published here in Landscape and Urban Planning. The point of this piece of work was to investigate links between health and the natural environment in rural areas. Since rural areas […]
Beyond Greenspace – Findings and a Film
We’ve recently published two key papers from the Beyond Greenspace project. As part of the project we also made a short film to discuss what the project is about, and the wider context in which it sits. Grab some popcorn and watch the film, then have a read about some of the key findings from […]
Beyond Greenspace in Merseyside
Ben Wheeler, Becca Lovell and guest blogger Dr Karyn Morrissey, University of Liverpool We recently had a great opportunity to spend a morning together with a wide range of people and organisations, mostly from the Merseyside area, at a workshop organised by the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy and Practice Fresh Thinking Series. At the […]
A few updates from the Beyond Greenspace team
We’ve not blogged for a while, but have been busily working away on our analyses and writing up the findings of the Beyond Greenspace project. We’ll post key findings here as soon as they’re peer-reviewed and published. While we’re doing that, here are a few updates on our activities that might be of interest… Stakeholder […]
Beyond Greenspace – Understanding Society Podcast
The folks at Understanding Society have produced a podcast where we discuss the Beyond Greenspace project and related work, especially as it relates to our work on the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society – kudos due to Mat White and Ian Alcock for leading on these aspects of the research. You can listen […]
Coastal proximity and health: A moving target as climate changes?
This latest blog post is from Dr Mat White, who leads much of the work at the European Centre on how our coastal environments might support good health and wellbeing Mat writes… I’ve never been a huge fan of New Year’s Eve. I love life and somehow it always reminds me of time slipping away, […]
Green cities provide a mental health boost that lasts
Here’s a recent blog post republished from The Conversation from one of our team members, Dr Ian Alcock. Our related ‘Beyond Greenspace’ analysis using the British Household Panel Survey is in progress… Green cities provide a mental health boost that lasts By Ian Alcock, University of Exeter It’s been established that enjoying green spaces in […]
Current activities on natural environments, health and wellbeing
Here in the Beyond Greenspace team, we’ve been ensconced in the analysis of the large datasets for this project for the last few months, hence a dearth of blog postings. Before too long we should have some findings, and once they’ve been duly peer-reviewed and published we’ll share summaries of them here too. We’ve had […]
How do we conceptualise people’s exposures to natural environments?
Some of the team have just returned from this year’s excellent International Medical Geography Symposium , and it was a good opportunity to think about this project’s geographical approach to estimating people’s ‘exposure’ to natural environments. In trying to figure out relationships between natural environments and health and wellbeing,we’re taking a pretty typical epidemiological approach […]
Natural environments and health and wellbeing: what kind of evidence do we need?
I just spent a fascinating couple of days in Cambridge at the ISBNPA satellite meeting More than the sum of the parts? Integration of individual and environmental approaches to changing population-level physical activity behaviour. It was a good opportunity to think about the kinds of evidence we need to be generating in order to inform […]
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