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The value of a healthy marine environment
This PhD research aims to investigate the risks and benefits of participating in marine recreation, and understand how the perceptions and values of the public influence their decisions to participate.
To achieve these aims, a review of the existing literature is being conducted...
How are the conditions for sustainable change created?
This PhD project is aiming to understand how communities have worked to improve health and wellbeing in ways that last. It will identify characteristics that are transferrable to other workplaces and schemes hoping to create sustainable changes in behaviour.
Within Cornwall there are...
Valuing ecosystem services
This PhD study aims to build on the NEA approach to ecosystem services by applying its methods within a smaller defined geographical scale. The Isles of Scilly will provide a study area to examine emerging opportunities associated with ecosystem services, through the production of innovative...
Positioning the environment as a health and wellbeing resource
This PhD research aims to place positional innovation within the existent typologies of innovation and to identify distinct forms of positional innovation based on a literature review and an analysis of case studies.
Positional innovation is one of the lesser studied members of the...
Enhancing the entrepreneurial capacity of Cornish SMEs
This PhD project seeks to promote innovation though establishing a knowledge exchange network with Cornish SMEs, aimed at the development of new lifestyle products and services. In doing so it will enable, encourage and promote healthier consumer lifestyles and enhance the entrepreneurial...
Is the prevalence of eczema associated with low solar irradiance exposures?
This PhD project will build upon work associating latitude, a proxy for sunlight and vitamin D synthesis, and atopic diseases by exploring if there is a link between solar...
Narrative Journey – A pedagogical tool connecting children and nature
The aim of this PhD research is to develop and test 'Narrative Journey' as a tool that can be used by a range of practitioners working with children, who would like to increase children’s physical, social and altruistic activities and relationships with the natural world.
For over three...
Health and Housing
This PhD project aims to provide an understanding into occupant behaviour and what drivers impact health, which may include poor ventilation, the domestic energy efficiency agenda, fuel poverty and changes in heating practices.
It is regarded that housing conditions are an important...
Perceptions and use of greenspace areas
This PhD project will explore how two Cornish communities relate to green spaces and examine the barriers faced by these communities in visiting and interacting with such areas. An important aim is to understand what can be done in practice to enable greater access to, and use of, local...
Low carbon vehicles: Energy, emissions and behaviour impacts
This PhD project is aiming to understand perceptions and barriers towards the use of electric vehicles in Cornwall. By working closely with local company Ecodrive, the study will identify areas of ‘knowledge waste’ that if addressed, could increase the uptake of electric vehicle use.
In...