Tag Archives: Health and wellbeing
Webinar: Tackling health inequalities through green and blue infrastructure. 23rd Oct 2025
Post update: webinar recording Over 350 people tuned in and joined us and our colleagues at the Town & Country Planning Association and Dorset Council for this webinar last week. Thanks to everyone for joining in and for contributing excellent questions and comments throughout. We kicked off with an introduction to how health inequalities and […]
New job: Green social prescribing research trial manager post!
We are looking for a research fellow to help us manage the next stage of our NIHR funded GREENGAGE. We have successfully done our feasibility and are now working on a pilot of the randomised control trial and process evaluation of a nature-based intervention for people with mental ill health. The overall aim of the […]
Graduate position: Local Nature Recovery Strategy Graduate Researcher
As part of our ongoing work with Public Health Dorset we are looking for someone with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) experience who wants to develop their collaborative academic skills! To Apply visit the University of Exeter Graduate employment pages. Reference: GBP 7257 Local Nature Recovery Strategy Graduate Researcher. Key Dates Closing Date: 19/06/2024 Interview Date: […]
New Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, People and Nature
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in the “Renewing biodiversity through a people-in-nature approach (RENEW)” project. This project seeks to develop solutions to one of the major environmental challenges for humankind, the renewal of biodiversity. This NERC funded post is available from 1 August 2024 for two years. Main purpose of […]
Associations between nature and sleep
Leanne, Mat, Lewis and James, working with collaborators from Europe, the US and Australia, have used survey data from 18 countries to explore the roles of specific types of nature exposure, and potential underlying mechanisms, on nature-sleep associations. The paper was published in Environmental Research. Insufficient sleep has been described as a significant public health […]
BMJ editorial: Nature prescribing
Ruth Garside, Becca, and Kerryn Husk, with Georgie Sowman and Edward Chapman, co-authored a BMJ editorial for the Christmas edition of the journal. The editorial dicussed the evidence and investment that are needed to ensure green social prescribing supports health and aids nature recovery. We argue that in additon to being used to benefit the […]
Healing Power of Nature: Podcast from Alex Smalley
Alex has worked with BBC Studios Natural History Unit and Audible to create a new podcast focusing on the healing power of nature. You can read more about Alex’s work on his Virtual Nature project site. In today’s fast-paced world, most people are familiar with feeling stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed. But a remarkable resource exists […]
New Graduate School of Environment and Sustainability
The University of Exeter has launched a new Graduate School of Environment and Sustainability that brings together experts from across the spectrum of earth and life sciences, engineering,humanities, social sciences and business working predominantly on the Penryn Campus. Each of the programmes are designed with a focus on developing solutions to global challenges and creating […]
Register for our 2024 Nature, Health and Well-being CPD Course
This CPD course focuses on how natural environments can benefit the physical and mental health of humans in a variety of different ways and how this topic has become increasingly important in policy. About the course This course will explore how natural environments can benefit the physical and mental health of people in a variety […]
ReBLS: A new longitudinal survey of people’s attitudes towards nature
As part of our work for theme one of the RENEW project, the Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey, or ReBLS for short, has been launched. The aim of the longitudinal panel survey is to understand how biodiversity renewal impacts people’s attitudes towards nature and renewal efforts, nature-related behaviours, health, and well-being, and how this may change […]
Beyond Greenspace 