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OPENspace research projects

Not so green and pleasant? Measuring and mapping the state of English urban green space
Research team: Professor Catharine Ward Thompson, Simon Bell, Penny Travlou and Jenny Roe

The Contribution of Green and Open Space in Public Health and Wellbeing
Research team: Professor Catharine Ward Thompson, Professor Peter Aspinall, Simon Bell and Jenny Roe

Countryside Council for Wales: Review of Evidence: Participation in Outdoor Recreation by WAG priority groups
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson, Simon Bell, Alicia Montarzino, Penny Travlou, Val Hamilton, Helen Rothnie, Catherine Millington

Greenspace Scotland: Greenspace Literature Review
Research team: Simon Bell, Alicia Montarzino, Penny Travlou, Val Hamilton, Helen Rothnie, in collaboration with Claire Fitzsimons and Nanette Mutrie (Strathclyde University)

I’DGO TOO - Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors, phase 2
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson, Peter Aspinall, Susana Alves, and Archie Young (University of Edinburgh)

PLUREL: Urban, Periurban and Rural Land Use Change
Research team: Simon Bell, Alicia Montarzino and a PhD student to be appointed, with support from Catharine Ward Thompson and Peter Aspinall

Forestry Commission Scotland: Woods in and Around Towns (WIAT) – Baseline Survey
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson, Susana Alves, Jenny Roe, Peter Aspinall

Forestry Commission Scotland: Enhancing the forest sector’s contribution to equal access for disabled people to recreation goods, facilities and services in Scottish woodlands
Research team: Simon Bell, Penny Travlou, Alicia Montarzino, Jenny Roe, Peter Ingram-Monk, Sally Ann Hoyne and Amanda Beech Wilson

Forestry Commission Scotland: Assessing the contribution of forestry grants to equal access for disabled people to recreation goods, facilities and services in Scottish woodlands
Research team: Simon Bell, Penny Travlou, Alicia Montarzino

DCLG/ODPM Green and Public Space Research: Mapping Exercise
Department for Communities and Local Government, DCLG 

Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors (I'DGO)
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson, Peter Aspinall, Takemi Sugiyama, and Simon Bell

Wild Adventure Space, scoping research for Natural England
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson, Penny Travlou, Simon Bell, Alicia Montarzino, Jenny Roe

Scottish Forestry Strategy – Consultation Process
Authors: OPENspace

SPARColl (Scottish Physical Activity Research Collaboration for NHS Health Scotland)
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson, Catherine Millington

Researching Places in Cumbria for Wildlife and People, for English Nature
Research team: Catherine Findlay, Anna Orme, Catharine Ward Thompson, Penny Travlou, Takemi Sugiyama

Durham County Council: Sign Audit and Wayfinding Assessment Survey - Phase I
Research team: Katherine Southwell, Catharine Ward Thompson and Catherine Findlay

Greenspace Scotland: Database Scoping Study
Research team: Simon Bell, Alicia Montarzino

Scottish Natural Heritage: Deaf People’s Access to the Countryside
Research team: Catherine Findlay, Simon Bell

Assessing the Impact and Quality of Public Art
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson, Alicia Montarzino

Countryside Council for Wales: Evaluating visitor experience in relation to artworks and interpretative media
Research team: Catherine Findlay, Katherine Southwell, Stella Wisdom, Catharine Ward Thompson -

Penfield Project – Galloway
Research team: Simon Bell, Alicia Montarzino, Stella Wisdom, Catharine Ward Thompson

The therapeutic benefits of gardening
Research team: Catherine Findlay

Evaluation Framework for projects to increase access to the countryside
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson

EU COST Action E33: Forest Recreation and Nature Tourism
Research team: Simon Bell

Cultural Values of Rural Landscapes in Latvia
Research team: Simon Bell

Teenagers and urban open space: an international perspective
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson and Penny Travlou

EU COST Action E39 - Trees, Woods and Human Health and Well-being
Research team: Simon Bell and Catharine Ward Thompson

Accessible Interpretation Design
Research team: Catherine Findlay, Karen McDonald

Edinburgh College of Art: staff and Student Consultation Exercise
Research team: Simon Bell and Penny Travlou

Local open space and social inclusion: case studies of use and abuse of woodlands in Central Scotland
Research team: Catharine Ward- Thompson, Peter Aspinall, Simon Bell, Catherine Findlay and Penny Travlou

The effectiveness of wayfinding systems with forest users' and countryside visitors’ wayfinding needs
Research team: Catherine Findlay, Katherine Southwell, Catharine Ward-Thompson and Peter Aspinall -

Diversity Review Options for the Countryside Agency
Research team: Catharine Ward Thompson, Madhu Satsangi, Simon Bell, Nina Morris, Gina Netto, Michael Chapman and Jeremy Raemaekers

English Nature - The Social Value of Nature in the East Midlands
Research team: Simon Bell, Catharine Ward Thompson, Catherine Findlay, Nina Morris, Penny Travlou and Alicia Montarzino

Presentations

Young People and Cities : Public Open Space and Social Inclusion, download presentation as Microsoft PowerPoint file (5,780 KB)

Health and Restorative Environments, download presentation as Microsoft PowerPoint file (2,350KB)