Research Themes

Our Programme of Research

  • Interventions

    Promoting wellbeing and facilitating resilience. Nture-based prevention and treatment of mental health problems.

  • Experimental

    Experimental psychology can help us understand which elements of nature are most important to different people.

  • Psychometrics

    Measuring contact with and connectedness to nature can be tricky. Developing valid and reliable measurement tools is an important part of all research.

  • Qualitative

    Words as well as numbers. Understanding the lived experience in nature through qualitative research.

  • Survey

    Quantitatively evaluating subjective experience of nature and wellbeing.

  • Longitudinal

    Understanding change over time can help us to develop a sense of what aspects of nature might cause good wellbeing.

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“I owe much to my excursions to Nature. They have helped to clothe me with health, if not with humility; they have helped sharpen and attune all my senses…I go to Nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more.”

— John Burroughs

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