Living with SAD: practicing cultures of seasonality to 'feel light' differently.
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Geographical & Earth Sciences
Abstract
Picture the scene. It's one we can all identity with, at some level: late October. The clocks have gone back. The mornings are colder and certainly looking darker. Light itself feels like a precious and endangered thing. A shift is underway. Marked by a downturn in energy and mood, it's tougher to get up for work, feels harder to think clearly, or to muster much in the way of enthusiasm. During the worst spells, there's an unmistakable feeling of sinking ...
Feelings associated with the changing seasons, and moods that seem to be governed by the nature of the weather overhead and related qualities of natural light, are a phenomenon known to us all. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is an intensified form of this lived experience that, for considerable numbers of people in the UK, can be debilitating and limiting, resulting in emotional challenges, lowered mood, and feelings of anxiety. This research project enters the lived experience of SAD, seeking to examine its occurrence and impacts in individuals' life-worlds. Working closely with people who self-identify as experiencing depression on a SAD spectrum, the research team will develop narrative, creative and therapeutic-educational resources more fully to examine and reflect SAD experiences, and to build a self-help programme to be hosted by the NHS-approved website, 'Living Life to the Full', to which over 40,000 people register annually. The programme will offer a range of well-being interventions to mitigate against negative experiences of lightness-darkness and changing seasons, in both urban and rural environments.
The research team combines differing skills and approaches, suited to interdisciplinary practice and public engagement. It is comprised of cultural geographers and a creative arts-health practitioner, jointly working with a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) expert. By focusing attention on SAD as a widely experienced, but poorly understood, affective phenomenon, the research project will have considerable public impact, initiating national conversations about addressing questions of how to live well through altered seasonal patterns and envisaging the sorts of adaptive life skills and cultural tools required for the mental health challenges now associated with global climate change. A network of project partnerships held with national-level organisations will leverage our finding to create meaningful 'national conversations' on mental health, sustainability and climate resilience in the public sector. Our partners - an expert advisory group - will ensure strategic input to the project, and have already helped us identify clear pathways to generate research impact. In future times, we all might be at risk of feeling SAD in relation to changing climate conditions (stormier weather and smoke-filled darker skies) and this project offers targeted resources to help mitigate these affects, as well as offering guided ways to increase creative and embodied connections between people and outdoor environments.
Feelings associated with the changing seasons, and moods that seem to be governed by the nature of the weather overhead and related qualities of natural light, are a phenomenon known to us all. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is an intensified form of this lived experience that, for considerable numbers of people in the UK, can be debilitating and limiting, resulting in emotional challenges, lowered mood, and feelings of anxiety. This research project enters the lived experience of SAD, seeking to examine its occurrence and impacts in individuals' life-worlds. Working closely with people who self-identify as experiencing depression on a SAD spectrum, the research team will develop narrative, creative and therapeutic-educational resources more fully to examine and reflect SAD experiences, and to build a self-help programme to be hosted by the NHS-approved website, 'Living Life to the Full', to which over 40,000 people register annually. The programme will offer a range of well-being interventions to mitigate against negative experiences of lightness-darkness and changing seasons, in both urban and rural environments.
The research team combines differing skills and approaches, suited to interdisciplinary practice and public engagement. It is comprised of cultural geographers and a creative arts-health practitioner, jointly working with a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) expert. By focusing attention on SAD as a widely experienced, but poorly understood, affective phenomenon, the research project will have considerable public impact, initiating national conversations about addressing questions of how to live well through altered seasonal patterns and envisaging the sorts of adaptive life skills and cultural tools required for the mental health challenges now associated with global climate change. A network of project partnerships held with national-level organisations will leverage our finding to create meaningful 'national conversations' on mental health, sustainability and climate resilience in the public sector. Our partners - an expert advisory group - will ensure strategic input to the project, and have already helped us identify clear pathways to generate research impact. In future times, we all might be at risk of feeling SAD in relation to changing climate conditions (stormier weather and smoke-filled darker skies) and this project offers targeted resources to help mitigate these affects, as well as offering guided ways to increase creative and embodied connections between people and outdoor environments.
Publications
Bodden S
(2024)
In a positive light? experiencing Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and the promise of biosolidarity
in Social & Cultural Geography
Bodden S
(2024)
SAD geographies: Making light matter
in Progress in Human Geography
Bodden, S
'In a positive light?' Experiencing Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and the promise of biosolidarity
in Social and Cultural geography
Bodden, S
SAD geographies
in Progress in Human Geography
Bodden, S, Parr, H, Lorimer H
Spaces of Mental Health and Well-Being
| Title | Light is a Right |
| Description | Light is a Right is a cultural bookwork guide to living well in winter - informed by the reseatch project and co-produced with the artist partner Alec Finlay |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | It has been signposted as 'further help' by the online advice from the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2024. https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/mental-illnesses-and-mental-health-problems/seasonal-affective-disorder-(sad) |
| URL | https://issuu.com/livingwithsad/docs/light_is_a_right_issuu |
| Title | Living with SAD / SAD stories exhibition |
| Description | The exhibition formed part of the Glasgow Science festival in June 2024 |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | We reached multiple publics who all evaluated the accompany workshops and the value of the exhibition. |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/listings/index.html/event/13251 |
| Title | Living with SAD / SAD stories exhibitions |
| Description | An exhibitions using 30 images produced by Living with SAD participants and the researchers, plus narrative panels with interview data on them, where exhibited as the research products were launched in October 2023. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | 70 publics attended and gave feedback via evaluation and a selection of stories were mounted onto a digital platform following the event. |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/winteringwell/resources/sadstories/ |
| Title | Wintering Well exhibitions in 4 libraries |
| Description | 4 exhibitions were mounted in East Dunbartonshire libraries as part of the Wintering Well Box scheme which was a research impact outcome of the research The exhibition in one library featured on STV 6pm news as part of an extended item about the scheme |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Media attention 100 users of library services picking up boxes which were associated with the exhibitions The exhibitions will stay in libraries for 5 years - being put up annually as the clocks change. |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1120570_en.html |
| Description | The Living with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) research project had the following objectives: 1.To engage with how people narrate 'seasonal affect' and 'SAD' 2. To explore the role that creative geographies/geohumanities can play in helping to understand how people with SAD experience qualities of light, climate, weather and seasonality. 3. To develop and test a supportive educational intervention culminating in a modification of an existing CBT-based life skills course (www.llttf.com) for people experiencing depression on a SAD spectrum. 4. To expand the scholarly connections between cultural geographies/creative geohumanities and geographies of mental health in ways that are relevant to the general public. 5. To network the self-help resources for seasonal resilience in a time of climate change All the objectives have been achieved. Summary: The research project explored SAD experience using social science methods (online survey, in-depth interview and ethnography), creative geohumanities (via a structured programme of creative encounters with a winter season, intended as an 'intervention' to address and counter SAD) and psychological tools (mood surveys and CBT design). We have worked closely with people who self-identified as experiencing depression on a SAD spectrum, and the research team developed an inventory of free, public self-help resources to mitigate against negative wintertime experience, and which are being shared via a research impact strategy in order to create an evidence base demonstrating how cultural geographies can make a difference to public mental health. The research data is now deposited in the UK data sharing service (interviews, creative journals, mood surveys, and online survey). The findings are represented in a report on the online survey: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/292974/1/292974.pdf which profiled the common struggles of people who experience SAD and low mood in winter.These findings helped inform and shape our health intervention - the creative winter workshop programme - and this was intended to help people see that it is possible to 'rethink winter' and 'rethink SAD' with biosocial support and creative resources. Our findings from the creative health intervention has shown: 1) The presence of biosocial community between people experiencing SAD helps them to cope with winter 2) Post intervention, participants still find winters difficult, but have more confidence in proactively responding to those challenges 3) Post intervention, participants still use creative activities to develop new 'experiments' to find their own way through winter 4) Post intervention, participants have new confidence to communicate their SAD experiences with and to others 5) Overall, post intervention, participants had a new set of skills to adapt to annual mental health impacts of low light Most significant achievements include: The use of the research to design and shape a range of free-to-access resources, including: 1) An educational intervention via a CBT-shaped course: Living Life to the Full: SAD | Online Course: https://llttf.com/sad/ 2) Light is a Right: A Guide to Wintering Well | Creative Book: https://issuu.com/livingwithsad/docs/light_is_a_right_issuu 3) Wintering Together | Workshop Toolkit for community organisers: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/321135/1/321135.pdf The resources above have been placed with healthcare partners (Glasgow's NHS Community link workers and 80 GP practices) to improve the public's mental health in Winter. The impact of this is currently being evaluated. The follow-on University of Glasgow ESRC IAA project has launched a Wintering Well Box scheme with East Dumbarton Library Services and 100 boxes are being loaned across 2024-2025 and currently being evaluated. Early indications are that these have a positive impact on wellbeing. A University of Edinburgh ESRC IAA award has extended the creative arts approach to engage other symptomatologic communities (e.g. chronic fatigue, chronic pain, energy-limiting conditions, constrained walking, deafblind, neurodivergence). These communities having been identified as neglected in terms of current provision for socially inclusive and imaginative access to therapeutic landscapes. The Royal College of Psychiatrists has published an update of its public guidance to SAD which include a link to project resources https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/mental-illnesses-and-mental-health-problems/seasonal-affective-disorder-(sad) There has been extensive media attention to the project and wide ranging public engagement via multiple well-attended and evaluated public events 2023-2025. There continues to be professional interest in dissemination and use of the research resources in public policy, community, education and healthcare settings. The original research participants formed their own support group and continue to meet independently as the Wintering Well Collective in Glasgow. They report direct benefit and improvement to their mental health. The academic impact is being realised through publications which are still being written out of the project. The research team have successfully engaged academic audiences via presentations, panels and symposia in UK, Norway, Europe and via international online presentations (Australia). |
| Exploitation Route | We are working with a range of organisations and individuals to take the research findings forward. These include NHS partners, Scottish government, Library services, general publics, university support services. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Healthcare Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/news/ |
| Description | Research impact will be reported fully 12 months after the end of the funding. The following is a list of impactful pathways and outcomes associated with the project and which have been funded by two follow-on IAA projects and further institutional funding at Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Public health intervention: The 'Living with SAD': online education module. The project team worked with Living Life to the Full (llttf.com) to co-produce a free online education module using findings from the Wintering Well workshop programme and consulting with 2 experts-by-experience. 343 people have registered to use the module since October 2023. LTTF.com have advertised the module to 16,000 newsletter readers and 7000 professional readers and will do so annually. We have a digital evaluation strategy with the team to feedback on use value of this free public health intervention and first evaluations have been forthcoming.The challenge for the team is finding ways of securing increasing numbers of registrations and course evaluations and we shall continue to work with LTTF.com to improve this. LTTF have been building the course into professional NHS staff training in Manchester and Oxford and this will increase professional exposure of the module to healthcare workers. Other social and health care organisations have engaged with the project outcomes and resources: the NGO 'Change Mental Health' https://changemh.org/ met with the project team and as a result have shared the public resources with their 27 Highland community link workers and on their public website: https://changemh.org/conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad/. The team presented to 80 practitioners as part the 'National Rural Mental Health Forum' run by Change Mental Health in September 2024.' Further to this engagement, Change Mental Health included Living with SAD resources in their evidence base, intended to share emerging best practice to help inform and shape whole system approaches to early intervention & prevention (EI&P) in mental health in Scotland. Change Mental Health has written a draft 'Cross-Sector Early Intervention and Prevention in Rural Mental Health Report' (2025) which has recommended five service specific recommendations for early intervention and prevention services, which includes use of the Living with SAD research-led resources. They recommend: 'Embedding of the Seasonal Affective Disorder programme 'Wintering Well' (Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh) within the practice of all social prescribers, including Community Link Workers; introduction of the programme to Paths for All, RSABI, Farmstrong, and all rural and west coast Local Authorities and transport providers.' The Royal College of Psychiatrists have adopted one of our resources as recommended 'further help' on their website: https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/mental-illnesses-and-mental-health-problems/seasonal-affective-disorder-(sad) East Dunbartonshire Library Service have partnered with the research team to run 'Wintering Well at the library' - a funded programme using our resources across 2024-2025 via additional ESRC IAA funding.100 loan users have used the boxes for multiple loan periods. We have 250 evaluations of use value from loan users, library professionals and managers and health care providers who have referred to the scheme. The programme has been nominated for a national library award and is a finalist for the social category in innovative and cutting edge innovation. NHS GGC Link Worker programme using the resources with 80 GP practices and the PI has been involved with training events for Community link Workers. Professional evaluation with link worker indicate the value of this intervention as part of social prescription to support well-being of Glasgow's communities: -The Guide to Wintering Well [has] useful tips for improvement in general mental wellbeing and coping better in winter months'. -'Client(s) found online course of interest, a meaningful use of time, helpful tips advice dealing with life during winter months'. -'I signposted to the LLTTF course and used [the] tools in discussion. Feedback was positive'. Collaborating Organisations: Paths for All (Scotland); Carr Gomm, social care charity, Trees for Life; Balmoral Estate; Blair Atholl Estate; Jupiter Artland; Deafblind Scotland are part of a follow-on University of Edinburgh IAA project extending the reach of an interdisciplinary approach (trialled as 'Wintering Well' during LwSAD research) called 'Day of Access (DOA): Pairing Symptomalogic Communities and Therapeutic Landscapes'. DoA designs nature-based experiences, and curates access to therapeutic landscapes, for participants from a range of symptomatologic communities (e.g. chronic fatigue, chronic pain, energy-limiting conditions, constrained walking, deafblind, neurodivergence.These communities having been identified as neglected in terms of current provision for socially inclusive and imaginative access to therapeutic landscapes. Student health and Wellbeing: University of Edinburgh has funded a student experience wellbeing scheme based on Wintering Well. University of Glasgow has collaborated with Student Support Officers to disseminate the project resources to enable student well-being in winter months. Evaluation is on-going. Significant time is being given to developing partnerships for health and social impact, via meetings with Health Improvement Leads, NGOs, Public Health Scotland and Library Services and other community groups. The University of Glasgow has delivered a 'Climate Change and Mental Health' KE event, driven by the SAD project, but bringing other interdisciplinary climate researchers into conversation with policy makers. 40 attendees included Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, Mental Health NGOs, Climate organisations, Adaptation Scotland and others. Subsequent meetings have been held with Scottish Government colleagues to consider next steps. The ambition is to create a national conversation on climate change and mental health, informed by the research project findings. Evaluation and impact: we have an evaluation strategy and have accumulated evaluation from the 'Wintering Well' workshop participants about the social impact of the programme. There is a 5 year evaluation strategy based on digital and in person follow-up. The PI is following up with original participants annually and we have developed a range of evaluation tools for other publics (via QR codes, letter formats, on-line forms, group and individual discussions) and agreements with partners to find ways to evidence the social impact of the public resources. There are challenges with trying to secure evidence over time and via online tools. The project advisory group has been consulted on evaluation strategies. We should be able to report more on the impact of our research-led public resources within 12 months. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Policy & public services |
| Description | Changing provision for winter low mood with NHS patients in Glasgow |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | New provision of resource to patients currently being evaluated via community link workers |
| Description | Day of Access: Pairing Symptomalogic Communities and Therapeutic Landscapes |
| Amount | £18,200 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EDI-24/25-P0101 |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2024 |
| End | 07/2025 |
| Description | Wintering Well at the library ESRC IAA |
| Amount | £13,618 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2024 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Title | Living with SAD dataset |
| Description | This will be open access datet delivered to the UK data service at the end of the project. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | it will be deposited at the end of award in 2024 and closed for 12 months and then open in 2025 |
| URL | https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=857533 |
| Description | Artistic partnership |
| Organisation | Alec Finlay |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Alec Finlay is a collaborator and co-designer of Wintering Well. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Artistic input and output associated with the Wintering Well workshop series. Launch of the SAD Manifesto will be in October 2023 |
| Impact | The SAD Manifesto will launch in October 2023 and we will update Research Fish next year. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | National centre for Resilence |
| Organisation | National Centre for Resilience |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Art of Communicating Resilience Conference - National Centre for Resilience The RA for Living with SAD have contributed to the NCR resilence events. The group included interdisciplinary researchers and a range of 'resilience professionals' (e.g. first-aid trainers, flood defence planners, park rangers). We had a series of conversations in small groups, during which time we introduced the Living with SAD project and drew on our work to reflect on strategies for using creativity-led methods for resilience-engagement and -building. The event allowed the team to introduce the topic of mental health as a resilience concern, and apply findings from our research to highlight the importance of addressing 'long-term' or 'quiet' social crises (like mental health challenges in the context of climate change) within resilience frameworks/planning. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have privided staff time to our advisory board and continue to help network us with partners. |
| Impact | The partbnership is about advising, networking and forward planning for climate change with policy partners and professions. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Wintering Well at the Library |
| Organisation | East Dunbartonshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | ESRC IAA partnership to provide 100 Wintering Well boxes to 6 libraries for public use as a wellbeing intervention. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In Kind time and library liaison. |
| Impact | ESRC IAA report via UofG pending |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Title | Wintering Well |
| Description | We are disseminating Wintering Well resources - the creative bookwork, the CBT module and the community toolkit guide with the Glasgow NHS Community link worker service. This is being evaluated in 2024-2025 via the rollout across 80 GP surgeries as a version of social prescription. In the pilot phase, we had professional evaluation which positively supported roll out (selected testimony below) and Parr presented the resources in dialogue events at Community Link Worker Training sessions in Summer 2024. The Community link worker programme is taking a case study approach to evaluation in winter 2025-2026. 'The Guide to Wintering Well [has] useful tips for improvement in general mental wellbeing and coping better in winter months'. 'Client(s) found online course of interest, a meaningful use of time, helpful tips advice dealing with life during winter months'. 'I signposted to the LLTTF course and used [the] tools in discussion. Feedback was positive'. |
| Type | Products with applications outside of medicine |
| Current Stage Of Development | Small-scale adoption |
| Year Development Stage Completed | 2023 |
| Development Status | Under active development/distribution |
| Impact | Link workers and health improvment officers have expressed interest in using to support people with low mood in Glasgow in winter |
| Description | Blog and website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A regular blog reporting on the Wintering Well series - distributed to a sign-up audience of 90 people and disseminated via social media https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/blog/ The website has recorded 1700 users to date (March 2024). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/sad_project/ |
| Description | Conference Session - Seasonal Cultures and Elements of Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Royal Geographical Society conference session across two session. Has led to Nordic Network and visit in 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/blog/headline_912058_en.html |
| Description | International Daylight Academy Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The International Daylight Academy The Daylight Academy (DLA) is an international membership organisation initiated by the Velux Stiftung. It brings together scientists from all backgrounds, as well as architects, engineers and other professionals who are involved in daylight research or have a strong interest in daylight related topics. By organising networking events, supporting collaborative activities and providing a platform for connection and exchange among the different disciplines and fields of expertise working on daylight, the Academy wants to initiate cooperation, innovation and new knowledge. Such interdisciplinary exchange has the potential to be a catalyst for creativity, novelty and development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | International conference presentation: Biosociality and Environmental Illness symposium, June 21, 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Biosociality and Environmental Illness symposium, June 21, 2022 in Uppsala Sweden 40 interdisciplinary researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | International conference presentation: International Medical Geography Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An academic presentation on Biosociality and SAD to HEI academic and post graduate and post-doctoral researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | International conference presentation: Royal Geographical Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A presentation to an online audience profiling the ESRC project 'Living with SAD' and communicating theoretical frameworks to an academic audience of ERC, Post doctoral students and HEI staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Media press releases for publics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We had a press release in October 2024 and Jan 2025 about the ongoing research and new ESRC IAA scheme We featured in multiple Radio items and a Television broadcast including a major item on STV news. We featured on TV talk. We Featured in Anxiety UK's Anxious Times Magazine (reaching over 30,000 members) https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/products/magazine/anxious-times-autumn-2024-instant-download/ Lifestyles Magazines (50,000) https://www.muchbetteradventures.com/magazine/seasonal-affective-disorder/ We featured in Living life to the Full newsletters (reaching 40,000) We featured in Glasgow Times, The Herald, and multiple regional print press articles (sometimes front page items) Radio 4 series of programmes recording for release in Autumn 2025 UKRI Press Association digital newsfeed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| Description | Media profiling of Living with SAD on TV and Radio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland 29/10/2022 An Là on BBC Alba 14/11/2022 (television) BBC Radio Berkshire Interview 28/11/2022 Multiple interviews, TV, radio and print media in 2023-4 as the outcomes were launched. Parr and Lorimer (Pi and Co-I) were leading the media engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/news/ |
| Description | Research presentation and visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Norway Climate Change Group - research symposium and future facing planning - Bergen June 2024 (24 academics incl Post docs) European Geography Conference, Copenhagen, June 2024, (500 attendees) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Royal Philosophical Society Public lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hester Parr gave a public lecture to 300-400 people on Climate Change and Mental Health and drew on the Living with SAD findings. Public Health Scotland have now requested a seminar for their mental health team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.royalphil.org/event/professor-hester-parrwhy-we-should-think-about-the-relationship-betw... |
| Description | Wintering Well workshop series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wintering Well is a co-designed outdoor workshop series which has recruited 20 people who experience SAD to take part in a creative intervention programme. Entry and Exit interviews and entry and exit mood surveys are measuring the impact of this workshop series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/sad_project/ |