Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Building individual and community resilience through nature based therapies (RESONATE)

The European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH), together with colleagues from the Behavioural Sciences Research Group, will lead a work package for a new €7m research project on…

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

GroundsWell: transforming our cities from the ground up

(2021 – 2026) The GroundsWell project explores inequalities in how people access and use natural spaces in urban areas. There is clear evidence showing that access and proximity to urban…

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

RENEW : exploring how individuals relate to and experience nature and biodiversity and how this may change with biodiversity renewal

RENEW is a five-year partnership programme (2022 – 2027), led by the University of Exeter and the National Trust and funded by NERC, to develop solutions to one of the…

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Evaluating the Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn Pilots

A team from ECEHH 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 who gives people time and focuses on what matters to the individual.

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Nature on Prescription for Mental Health: Feasibility Stage for the ‘greENGAGE’ Trial Stage

A team from the University of Exeter and University of Plymouth are conducting a feasibility study of nature-based activities reached through social prescribing. The work is funded by have been…

Blue Environments and Health, Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Green-blue space natural experiment

Green-blue space exposure changes and impact on individual-level wellbeing and mental health: a population-wide record-linked natural experiment.

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

How migrant populations can promote health, wellbeing and a sense of place through natural space creation

2022-2026 PhD   Author: Qingyue Xue This PhD research project is focusing on how migrant populations promote health, well-being, a sense of place and belonging in the city through the creation…

Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiology, Nature, Biodiversity and Health

PhD Research: Antimicrobial resistance in freshwater microbes

Investigating selection for antimicrobial resistance by non-antibiotic drugs in freshwater microbes.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiology, Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Ecological drivers of drug resistance

Exploring the ecological drivers of drug resistant pathogens in aquatic environments.

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Beyond Greenspace

Beyond Greenspace aimed to improve our understanding in this area by examining how different types and qualities of natural environment have varying relationships with human health and wellbeing. The project used some of the UK’s extremely valuable existing (‘secondary’) datasets to address this research question.

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Nature on Prescription Handbook

This handbook is the culmination of detailed evidence gathering through evidence review, interviews and workshops with people and organisations involved in providing green social prescribing.

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Sensing Nature

Sensing Nature is exploring how people with varying forms and severities of sight impairment experience diverse types of nature.