Tag Archives: Nature
Take part in the RENEW Window View Survey
As part of the RENEW project, we are asking people to take part in a survey all about the views from windows in your homes or workplaces. To take part, you can simply upload a picture of your view and answer a few questions about its importance to you. Looking at nature through a window […]
Join us on the Nature, Health & Wellbeing CPD Course this March
Come join us on the Continuing Professional Development course, Nature, Health and Well-being. It will run virtually on Zoom over four days from 9:00 – 13:00 (UK time) on the 20th, 23rd, 27th, 30th March 2023. You can join from the comfort of your home and/or office without the need to travel! We have an […]
Nature, Health & Wellbeing CPD Course
We at ECEHH run a Continuing Professional Development course, Nature, Health and Well-being. The next course dates have just been announced. It will run virtually on Zoom over four days on from 9:00 – 13:00 (UK time) on the 20th, 23rd, 27th, 30th March 2023 from the comfort of your home and/or office without the need […]
Nature on prescription for mental health trial: Feasibility stage
Ruth, Becca, Kerryn and a team from Exeter and Plymouth Universities have been awarded funds by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to conduct a feasibility study of nature based activities reached through social prescribing. The work will help prepare for a full Randomised Controlled Trial which will help clarify whether such activities are […]
New Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in people’s relationships with nature
A new four year post-doctoral post is available to work with Professor Kevin Gaston, Lewis, Becca and Jo on the RENEW project investigating key questions about the variation in and temporal dynamics of people’s relationships with nature, and their consequences. The role The post entails data collection and analysis to address key questions about the […]
New PhD: Affective forecasts and biodiversity renewal
A new fully-funded four year PhD studentiship is availible to work with Lewis, Becca and Professor Kevin Gaston. It will focus on understanding how people respond to changes in biodiversity and will be one of at least nine other PhDs associated with the NERC funded Renewing biodiversity through a people-in-nature approach (RENEW) project. The studentship […]
Evaluating the Green Social Prescribing test and learn pilots
Working with researchers at The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of Plymouth we have been funded to evaluate the Government’s flagship Green Social Prescribing test and learn pilots programme. Social prescribing and community-based support enables GPs, other health and care practitioners and local agencies to refer people to a link worker […]
Improving access to greenspace: A new review for 2020
Becca has worked with Public Health England to co-author their new report on improving access to greenspace. The report is an update of the earlier 2014 report and reviews evidence on the health benefits of living in greener communities, the impact on inequalities in health and makes recommendations to help Local Authorities, policymakers and developers […]
ECEHH research featured on the BBC’s ‘Trust Me, I’m a Doctor’
The BBC’s Trust Me, I’m a Doctor looked at whether time spent in nature benefits mental health and ran a small experiment testing the recent finding, reported in one of Mat and co’s recent papers, that people who report spending 120 mins or more in nature over the last week had consistently higher levels of health […]
SWEEP Environmental Investment for Health Outcomes project webinar library
On this page we will post a library of links to our SWEEP project webinar recordings. Webinar 1: Public Health Dorset: Stories from the Healthy Places project The live stream of the webinar took place on Friday 6 December 2019. Rupert Lloyd from Public Health Dorset shared his insight into some of the work going […]
Beyond Greenspace 