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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After going on a project management course, we thought it would be interesting to try out a formal project planning process for this project. Which isn’t to say we don’t usually have some sort of plan, but they tend to be reasonably ad-hoc, developed by the team based on the project proposal, and very fluid […]
Beyond Greenspace relies heavily on small area census data, as do many health geography research projects. Given current discussions around whether or not the UK will ever have another census (http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/what-we-do/programmes—projects/beyond-2011/index.html), it seems timely to reflect on how we are using these datasets for this project and related work, and where we might be without […]
Background There is growing interest in understanding how natural environments may support good health and wellbeing. Researchers have investigated effects of natural spaces on health behaviours, physical and mental health, and socio-economic health inequalities. Generally, positive relationships are demonstrated, and some explanatory theories for positive effects have been proposed. These include provision of locations and […]
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