Places and health
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
We know that your health is affected by the environment you live in, both positively and negatively. The local, national and international governments and organisations who influence and control these environments really want to design and manage them so that they help everyone stay as healthy as possible. Surprisingly, there is little evidence about what to do, how long it might take to have effects, and how big those effects on health might be. Our research tries to help. We know that the place you live is made up of many interconnecting things including natural and man-made environments, people, economy, and culture. These all work together to influence health. Our research is focused on understanding where, when and how places change, because then we can study the effects of those changes on health. We also study how people use their towns and cities because we can’t assume everyone stays in their neighbourhood all the time. We need to understand how and why they move around, day to day, and how that affects their health too. Finally, we use new methods to test out our understanding of how places affect health and how we could improve their design and management. These methods include using computers to simulate what does, and might, go on in neighbourhoods and cities, and the likely impact on residents’ health. Such simulations are very new to health research and we want to know if and when they can be helpful.
Technical Summary
We know that our living environment affects our health. One implication is that environment could be a lever to improve population health and narrow inequalities, but there is currently little robust evidence about what the best interventions or investments for health would be, how long they might take to work, and the likely extent of benefits. Building on our past work, the programme aims to tackle that lack of evidence and the reasons for it, in the next five years and beyond. A distinguishing feature of the Places programme is its focus on connections between environment, people and health. As social as well as epidemiological scientists, we conceptualise and research places as social, economic and environmental systems which shape and are shaped by individuals. In practice, this means we focus on time as well as space; a longitudinal perspective is needed to see how people and places affect each other.
The programme’s long-term aim is to understand how urban environments do, or can be modified to, protect and improve population health and reduce health inequalities. The objectives are to i) lead a step-change in the availability and application of novel data and methods to improve understanding of how places affect health; and ii) utilise these new methods and data to identify and evaluate place-based interventions for improving population health and reducing health inequalities.
We will deliver these aims via 3 interconnected workstreams. Workstream 1 creates and uses longitudinal data to tell us how places change over time and the consequences for population health and related behaviour. Workstream 2 collects and uses GPS data and approaches developed from ecology to tell us how people use places; how the content and configuration of settlements affects where they go, what they do, and what this means for their health. Workstream 3 creates dynamic simulation models to explore both how people, place and health are linked in systems, and how places can be changed to improve health and reduce inequalities. The health and health-related outcomes of primary interest are mental health and wellbeing, exposure to alcohol and tobacco environments, contact with nature, physical activity, and population-level indicators of health such as mortality rate.
The programme’s long-term aim is to understand how urban environments do, or can be modified to, protect and improve population health and reduce health inequalities. The objectives are to i) lead a step-change in the availability and application of novel data and methods to improve understanding of how places affect health; and ii) utilise these new methods and data to identify and evaluate place-based interventions for improving population health and reducing health inequalities.
We will deliver these aims via 3 interconnected workstreams. Workstream 1 creates and uses longitudinal data to tell us how places change over time and the consequences for population health and related behaviour. Workstream 2 collects and uses GPS data and approaches developed from ecology to tell us how people use places; how the content and configuration of settlements affects where they go, what they do, and what this means for their health. Workstream 3 creates dynamic simulation models to explore both how people, place and health are linked in systems, and how places can be changed to improve health and reduce inequalities. The health and health-related outcomes of primary interest are mental health and wellbeing, exposure to alcohol and tobacco environments, contact with nature, physical activity, and population-level indicators of health such as mortality rate.
Organisations
- University of Glasgow (Lead Research Organisation)
- Actify Training and Technology (Collaboration)
- Historic Environment Scotland (Collaboration)
- University of Wollongong (Collaboration)
- Historic England (Collaboration)
- West Dunbartonshire Council (Collaboration)
- University of Queensland (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- University of Liege (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- University of Southern Denmark (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Richard Mitchell (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Alkhatib AM
(2021)
Contextual influences on chronic illness: A multi-level analysis in the twin cities of Ramallah and Al Bireh in the occupied Palestinian Territory.
in Health & place
Almagor J
(2021)
How can an agent-based model explore the impact of interventions on children's physical activity in an urban environment?
in Health & place
Almagor J
(2020)
Exploring the effectiveness of a COVID-19 contact tracing app using an agent-based model.
in Scientific reports
Angelopoulos K
(2020)
Briefing Note: Post-pandemic mortality dynamics: historical city-level evidence
Angelopoulos K
(2021)
Pandemic-Induced Wealth and Health Inequality and Risk Exposure
in SSRN Electronic Journal
Angelopoulos K
(2023)
Local infectious disease experience influences vaccine refusal rates: a natural experiment
in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Angelopoulos K
(2021)
Briefing Note: Medium-run wealth inequality following COVID-19
Asplin P
(2024)
Epidemiological and health economic implications of symptom propagation in respiratory pathogens: A mathematical modelling investigation.
in PLoS computational biology
Bardid F
(2022)
Results from Scotland's 2021 report card on physical activity and health for children and youth: Grades, secular trends, and socio-economic inequalities.
in Journal of exercise science and fitness
| Title | Co-produced causal loop diagram of nature-based ELC implementation (Mccrorie Paul) |
| Description | co-produced interactive online causal loop map demonstrating the relationships between factors involved in implementing outdoor nature-based ELC. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Has been used by practitioners and managers of early learning and childcare settings and local/national government officials to consider how to implement nature-based ELC more widely in Scotland |
| URL | https://embed.kumu.io/69bd92ed3125d3de2eeb0823fb1a72cc#practice-of-nature-based-elc |
| Title | Digital content - video (Mccrorie Paul) |
| Description | Video created to explain the co-production of a causal loop diagram exploring the factors and relationships involved in implementing nature-based ELC more widely in Scotland |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Used by practitioners to critically appraise their own service delivery. Used by local government and national government to consider key leverage points in the wider implementation of nature-based ELC in Scotland. |
| Title | Urban Nature maps for Edinburgh and Glasgow |
| Description | Maps were created showing the locations of local green and openspaces, and then facts, figures, advice and information on accessing nature are on the reverse. Maps will be distributed to schools, via third sector agencies etc. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Maps just completed - impacts to follow. |
| Description | Chair of Research and Evidence group, and evaluation lead for Our Natural Health Service |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Chair of new Environment and Spaces For Public Health Partnership, data and evidence group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The group advises, influences and prescribes for the management and promotion of public open space in the aim of improving public health and reducing inequalities. Our evidence has been drawn on and used by Scottish Government, local authorities, NGOs, third sector agencies and local community groups. |
| Description | Citation in Government Policy Report (Hannah Burnett as leading author) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/impact-assessment/2021/12/open-... |
| Description | Citation in Public Health Scotland policy document (Evidence behind Place Standard Tool and Place and Wellbeing Outcomes) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/14808/evidence-behind-the-place-standard-tool-and-the-place-... |
| Description | Citation in Quebec policy document on factors associated with the use of recreational/sports facilities |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://bdso.gouv.qc.ca/docs-ken/multimedia/PB01670FR_EQAPS_2018_2019H00F02.pdf |
| Description | Citation in local Government Policy documentation - Active Play |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Citation in policy document |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.julkari.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/146029/URN_ISBN_978-952-408-014-9.pdf |
| Description | Citation in policy document (briefing) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.health.org.uk/risk-factors |
| Description | Dr Jonathan Olsen presented work from the Places and Health programme exploring a nationwide equity assessment of the 20-minute neighbourhood to members of Public Health Scotland, Scottish Government, SURF - Scotland's Regeneration Forum and Architecture and Design Scotland. Dr Olsen has been asked to present at future events for SURF and for further discussion with the Scottish Government about this work. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Environmental bads paper (Macdonald et al. 2018) cited in WHO policy document (Pearce et al. 2022) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/457289/Reducing-inequities-in-health-across-the... |
| Description | Invitation to join the Alcohol-free Childhood Action Network (ACAN) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Invited attendance of Public Health Scotland Outcomes Framework Development workshop - Open Space, Green Space, Public Space: Contributing to positive public mental health outcomes in Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Invited presentation to the Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation Sub-Group (A sub-group of the Scottish Ministerial Working Group on Tobacco Control). |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | List of policy document and report citations |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://policyprofiles.sagepub.com/profile/10552/richard-mitchell |
| Description | Membership of operations group for Our Natural Health Service |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The ops group overseas the operations of Greenhealth Partnerships, which deliver connectivity and activity in the environment and health sectors of local authorities in Scotland, The ops group enables the sharing of good practice and evidence of impact, thereby guiding influence on the ground. |
| Description | Paper (Ellaway, Macdonald, & Kearns (2016)) cited in UK Government policy document (Decision-Making in the UK Transport System, 2019) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7736... |
| Description | Research (3 papers) cited in policy document (Cleaner Air for Scotland) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/cleaner-air-scotland-air-quality-public-attitudes-behaviour-review... |
| Description | Research and evidence group for Our Natural Health Service, a Scottish environment & health intervention programme |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Substantial work culminated in an evaluation report and recommendations, highlighting differences in approach of local green health partnerships in terms of activity and effectiveness. At a local level this has led to better sharing of practices between groups. At the programme level is has led to a prioritisation of green prescriptions for some groups, and fostered on going funding for other groups. |
| Description | Research cited in Dutch policy document (Beperken van het aantal verkooppunten tabak - Limit the number of tobacco outlets) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2020/07/31/beperken-van-het-aantal-verkooppunten-t... |
| Description | Research cited in policy document (Future of mobility: decision making in the UK transport system) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-mobility-decision-making-in-the-uk-transport-sy... |
| Description | Submission to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee Inquiry into Children, Young People and The Built Environment |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Assessing policy to address the medium-run impact of COVID-19 on income and health inequality with models informed by the history of disease outbreaks |
| Amount | £237,788 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/V005898/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Avril Johnstone VW Nature Health Workshop travel award |
| Amount | £571 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres |
| Department | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 02/2023 |
| Description | Better Parks, Healthier for All? |
| Amount | £383,966 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/TO38721/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Better Parks, Healthier for All? |
| Amount | £383,966 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/TO38721/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Capital funding 2021/22 |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Change in alcohol and tobacco availability, population health and the lived experience |
| Amount | £609,175 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/S016775/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2019 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Change in alcohol and tobacco availability, population health and the lived experience |
| Amount | £609,176 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/S016775/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2019 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Developing and disseminating tools for population health improvement: an online interactive atlas for identifying environmental change |
| Amount | £200,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC_PC_21024 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | Developing computational approaches to data extraction from European archives |
| Amount | £9,951 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 02/2023 |
| Description | Do gender-differences in access to urban landscapes lead to gender-inequalities in mental and physical health? |
| Amount | £287,426 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/T027789/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (CSHLH) |
| Amount | £7,105,262 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P011020/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | GCRF Growing Research Capability |
| Amount | £7,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P011020/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Glasgow City Council - half funded PhD studentship |
| Amount | £48,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | GroundsWell: Community-engaged and Data-informed Systems Transformation of Urban Green and Blue Space for Population Health |
| Amount | £7,116,894 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/V049704/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2026 |
| Description | Impact Acceleration Account 2019: Glasgow |
| Amount | £1,184,699 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T501918/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Impact Acceleration Account: Empowering stakeholders in Early Learning in Childcare to evaluate and implement outdoor childcare (Anne Martin) |
| Amount | £14,700 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T501918/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | Investigating the potential of outdoor nurseries for children, families and communities (PhD Studentship) |
| Amount | £47,240 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Glasgow City Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Investigating the potential of outdoor nurseries for children, families and communities (PhD Studentship) |
| Amount | £47,240 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Investigating the relationship between green space and the health of Scottish schoolchildren: a nationally representative cross-sectional study |
| Amount | £22,241 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | GCHC/PSG/2017/06 |
| Organisation | Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 09/2019 |
| Description | MRC Skills Development Fellowship: Do gender-differences in access to urban landscapes lead to gender-inequalities in mental and physical health? |
| Amount | £283,961 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/T027789/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Mental health and HIV among call centre employees in the Philippines: Co-producing a workplace intervention using a systems approach |
| Amount | £140,700 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/V004093/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | Mental health and HIV among call centre employees in the Philippines: Co-producing a workplace intervention using a systems approach. |
| Amount | £140,700 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/V004093/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | PHASE: The Population Health Agent based Simulation nEtwork |
| Amount | £402,310 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/S037594/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 05/2023 |
| Description | Scottish Government - Systematic Review: effect of outdoor nurseries on children's health, learning and social and emotional wellbeing |
| Amount | £59,881 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Sustrans: Evaluability Assessment of EBike programme |
| Amount | £6,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Sustrans |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| Description | Systematic review on the potential of outdoor nurseries for promoting learning, social relationships, health and wellbeing in early childhood |
| Amount | £63,240 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Description | Using secondary data to examine whether a programme of physical and social interventions in urban forests enhances community health and wellbeing |
| Amount | £240,623 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/V002457/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | VW Nature Health Workshop |
| Amount | £571 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres |
| Department | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | World Class Labs Capital Funding 2020/22 |
| Amount | £215,103 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | World Class Labs Captial Funding 2020/22 |
| Amount | £215,103 (FKP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | World Class Labs capital equipment funding offer 2022/23 - MRC block award |
| Amount | £64,967 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Title | Changes in the frequency, experiences and barriers to green space use in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic (November 2020 follow-up) |
| Description | The aim of the survey was to be able to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions/'lockdown' were impacting the UK population's visits to green space in November 2020 compared to data collected during the initial 'stay at home' phase of restrictions in April/May 2020 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5525/gla.researchdata.1038). The survey was conducted using an online interview administered to members of the YouGov Plc UK panel of 800,000+ individuals who agreed to take part in surveys. The survey was completed between 25th - 26th November 2020, with a nationally representative sample of 2,246 respondents. In the survey, respondents were asked about their frequency of green space visits, as well as their experiences within green space and barriers to visiting green space during the current stage of the pandemic and restrictions. Questions on garden access, pet ownership, household size, urban/rural status and long-standing illnesses/health conditions were also included. Demographic data was provided by YouGov (including sex, age, geographic region, ethnicity, social grade, marital status, working status, the number of children in household, government region and social media usage). Please note: The data in this record is under embargo until October 2023. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1091 |
| Title | Changes in the frequency, experiences and barriers to green space use in the United Kingdom following restrictions on movement during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Description | The aim of the survey was to explore how the restrictions on movement were impacting the UK population's visits to green space, and how these behaviours differed between population groups (e.g. by ethnicity, age, and health status). The survey was conducted using an online interview administered to members of the YouGov Plc UK panel of 800,000+ individuals who agreed to take part in surveys. The survey was completed between 30th April to 1st May 2020, with a nationally representative sample of 2,252 respondents. In the survey, respondents were asked about how their frequency of green space visits changed following restrictions on movement, as well as whether experiences and barriers to use changed. Questions on garden access, pet ownership, household size, urban/rural status and long-standing illnesses/health conditions were also included. Demographic data was provided by YouGov (including sex, age, geographic region, ethnicity, social grade, marital status, working status, the number of children in household, government region and social media usage). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1038 |
| Title | Covid-19: Agent-based model of pandemic progression and effectiveness of mitigation strategies (Stefano Picascia) |
| Description | Covid-19: Agent-based model of pandemic progression and effectiveness of mitigation strategies. A multi-layer network agent-based model of the progression of the COVID19 infection and its mitigations: lockdowns, social distancing, contact tracing, massive testing. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | he model is designed to test and appreciate the difference in infections and casualties with and without social distancing/lockdown measures and, more importantly, to test the effectiveness of infection mitigation strategies such as large scale testing and contact tracing apps. Specifically, the complex interaction between the availability of testing and different levels of app adoption can be usefully explored with this model. The model also shows that, when we assume that the viral transmission runs predominantly through one's social network, the dynamic of the infection is different from that emerging under the assumption of most SEIR models of an equal probability of everyone infecting everyone else. |
| URL | https://github.com/harrykipper/covid |
| Title | Covid-19: modelling the spread of Covid-19 and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies (Jonatan Almagor) |
| Description | an agent-based model simulating the spread of Covid-19 in a population. The ABM explores the effectiveness of mitigation measures: lock-down, social distancing, contact tracing app and testing on reducing the spread of the virus. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The model provide insights into the effectiveness of mitigation strategies to reduce the spread of the virus, with a focus on the impact of a contact tracing app. |
| URL | https://github.com/harrykipper/covid/blob/master/README.md |
| Title | Data and code for: Local infectious disease experience influences vaccine refusal rates: a natural experiment |
| Description | Vaccination has been critical to the decline in infectious disease prevalence in recent centuries. Nonetheless, vaccine refusal has increased in recent years, with complacency associated with reductions in disease prevalence highlighted as an important contributor. We exploit a natural experiment in Glasgow at the beginning of the 20th century to investigate whether prior local experience of an infectious disease matters for vaccination decisions. Our study is based on smallpox surveillance data and administrative records of parental refusal to vaccinate their infants. We analyse variation between administrative units of Glasgow in cases and deaths from smallpox during two epidemics over the period 1900-1904, and vaccine refusal following its legalisation in Scotland in 1907 after a long period of compulsory vaccination. We find that lower local disease incidence and mortality during the epidemics were associated with higher rates of subsequent vaccine refusal. This finding indicates that complacency influenced vaccination decisions in periods of higher infectious disease risk, responding to local prior experience of the relevant disease, and has not emerged solely in the context of the generally low levels of infectious disease risk of recent decades. These results suggest that vaccine delivery strategies may benefit from information on local variation in incidence. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.rbnzs7hfx |
| Title | Parental perceptions of risks and benefits of outdoor risky play - dataset (Paul McCrorie) |
| Description | The following is a summary for this dataset: Will hold data related to parents' perceptions of outdoor play situations in terms of their risks and benefits for children aged 2-5 years. The dataset has three parts: 1. Socio-demographic information about parent and child. 2. General play related questions relating how often they took their child out to play, and under what weather conditions. 3. Parental assessment of risk and benefits for 10 visually presented outdoor situations that parents may experience with their child(ren). Parents judged the risk and benefit of each situation using Likert style responses (Completely disagree - Completely agree) and under what conditions they would allow their child to do this activity. For each of the 10 situations parents answer up to 7 questions. The questions are the same for each situation but depending on their responses, additional questions could display throughout. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset underpins an international collaboration between researchers at the University of Glasgow, University of Liege Belgium, and the University of Wollongong Australia. |
| Title | Practitioner perceptions of risks and benefits of outdoor risky play - dataset (Paul McCrorie) |
| Description | This dataset will be deposited in the UK Data Service repository: The following is a summary for this dataset: Will hold data related to practitioners' perceptions of outdoor play situations in terms of their risks and benefits for children aged 2-5 years. The dataset has three parts: 1. Demographic information about the practitioner and their childcare setting, including age, gender, and general experience related questions in the childcare sector, predominant age group of responsibility, and childcare setting (urban. Town, rural etc). 2. Practitioner assessment of risk and benefits for 10 visually presented outdoor situations that practitioners may experience with their child(ren) in their childcare centre. Practitioners judged the risk and benefit of each situation using Likert style responses (Completely disagree - Completely agree) and under what conditions they would allow their child to do this activity. For each of the 10 situations practitioners answer up to 7 questions. The questions are the same for each situation but depending on their responses, additional questions could display throughout. Access will require agreement with a user license and in some situations approval from a data access committee to adhere to ethical approval provided. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset underpins an international collaboration between researchers at the University of Glasgow, University of Liege Belgium, and the University of Wollongong Australia. |
| Title | SPACES - Growing Up in Scotland: Cohort 1, Sweep 8 Physical Activity Data, 2015-2016 |
| Description | The Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study is a large-scale longitudinal social survey which follows the lives of several groups of Scottish children from infancy through childhood and adolescence, and aims to provide important new information on children and their families in Scotland. The study forms a central part of the Scottish Government's strategy for the long-term monitoring and evaluation of its policies for children, with a specific focus on the early years. Unlike other similar cohort studies, this survey has a specifically Scottish focus. A key objective of GUS is to address a significant gap in the evidence base for early years policy monitoring and evaluation. The study seeks both to describe the characteristics, circumstances and experiences of children in their early years (and their parents) in Scotland and, through its longitudinal design, to generate a better understanding of how children's start in life can shape their longer term prospects and development. Since 2005, study design and data collection have been undertaken by ScotCen Social Research with collaborations with the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, based at the University of Edinburgh and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit over certain periods of the project. The survey design consisted of recruiting an initial total of 8,000 parents in 2005, comprising two cohorts of children (5,000 from birth, 3,000 from age two years and ten months), and then interviewing parents annually until their child reached age five years ten months. Further fieldwork was undertaken with the birth cohort when the children were around eight, ten, twelve and fourteen years old. A boost sample of 500 children from predominantly high deprivation areas was added to the cohort as part of the age 12 fieldwork. Data is collected via an in-home, face-to-face interview with self-complete sections. Fieldwork for sweep 10 was disrupted due to the COVID pandemic. As a result, the final portion of the data was collected via web and telephone questionnaires. Further information about the survey may be found on the Growing Up in Scotland website. SN 9120 - Growing Up in Scotland: Cohort 1, Sweep 8 Physical Activity Data, 2015-2016 The Studying Physical Activity in Children's Environments across Scotland (SPACES) project aimed to investigate the ways in which the built, natural and social environment influences children's physical activity. The project employed an observational, cross-sectional design that sub-sampled from Birth Cohort 1 (BC1) of the GUS during the GUS Sweep 8 fieldwork. Children sub-sampled from GUS were invited to provide objectively measured physical activity data by wearing an accelerometer for eight days. This dataset provides a range of summary physical activity variables from this project. A total of 775 children provided valid data. As a sub sample of GUS BC1, the summary level physical activity data can be linked, where appropriate, to other GUS BC1 datasets held on UKDS at the individual level. The physical activity data were collected between May 2015 and May 2016 by the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), University of Glasgow. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset will allow researchers to answer new questions in relation to Scottish Children's physical activity. To date, we've had a handful of conversations with researchers interested in using this dataset. |
| URL | https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/1487/ |
| Title | Shapefiles of administrative boundaries, Subway and main rivers in Glasgow, UK, around 1910 |
| Description | This collection consists of ESRI shapefiles for Glasgow around 1910: sanitary district boundaries in 1903 (Sanitary_Districts.shp, etc.) municipal ward boundaries in 1912 (Wards_1912.shp, etc.) registration district boundaries within the area of the City of Glasgow in 1913 (Registration_Districts.shp, etc.) routes of main rivers (River Clyde and River Kelvin) around 1915 (Rivers.shp, etc.) route of the Glasgow Subway around 1915 (Subway.shp, etc.) For details of shapefile construction, please see the descriptions in the following article: Angelopoulos, K., Stewart, G. and Mancy, R. Local infectious disease experience influences vaccine refusal rates: a natural experiment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1986. Details of construction and references to original map sources are provided in the second paragraph of the section "Geographic conversion" in the online supplementary materials of the above reference. Further information about the boundaries is provided in the caption of Figure S1 of the supplementary materials. Additional contextual information is provided in both the main text and supplementary materials. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7550896 |
| Description | Actify - free digital tool |
| Organisation | Actify Training and Technology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Invited to become Director to assist with the development of the platform. Our Research team/unit have created a digital space on the platform where we host content and output from research projects. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Owner of the Platform has provided in-kind contribution to three knowledge exchange projects |
| Impact | 0 |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Building partnerships and collaboration with West Dunbartonshire council |
| Organisation | West Dunbartonshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | At our instigation we have been developing a partnership with West Dun council planning team to co-produce a new tool for health impact assessment of strategic land use planning. We brought the overall idea and technical solutions to some of the problems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The planning team were able to hone and refine the questions our tools might answer, connect us to other groups able to help and co-produce the kinds of tools we aim to design. They gave us insights into where our tools might be able to help within the planning process. |
| Impact | No outputs as yet - early days. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collab with Historic England on heritage and health project |
| Organisation | Historic England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project is a collaboration between Places and Health, and colleagues from Historic England (HE) to investigate how spatial and survey data may help to explore the health impacts of heritage environments. The researchers have undertaken spatial analysis using HE data, written an e-article for the HE website, and also abstracts submitted to 2 conferences - IMGS 2022 (https://imgs2022.org/) and GEOMED 2022 (https://sites.uci.edu/geomed2022/).conferences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators have shared spatial data and contributed to discussions on the type of research and analysis to be undertaken. They have also provided their expert knowledge on English heritage. |
| Impact | E-article - Geographic exposure to heritage - https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/historic-england-research-20/. Intend to present at 2 conferences - IMGS (June 2022) and GEOMED (August 2022). |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) |
| Organisation | Historic Environment Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project is a collaboration between Places and Health, and colleagues from Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to investigate how spatial and survey data may help to explore inequalities in geographical access to, and children's contact with, heritage environments. The researchers have undertaken spatial analysis using HES data and written a full draft of a paper for submitted to a social sciences journal (Wellbeing, Space & Society (under review)); undertaken a public engagement (PE) activity at the ESRC Social Sciences Festival (interactive heritage map); published a blog on the PE activity (see url below); and undertaken two presentations on the heritage research to HES and to Public Health Scotland. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators have shared spatial data and contributed to discussions on policy-relevant research to be undertaken, provided their expert knowledge on Scottish heritage, participated in the PE interactive heritage map event, and provided feedback on a draft on the journal paper currently under review. |
| Impact | Blog post, journal article (under review as of January 2024). |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Parent and educator outdoor play risk perception survey (Anne Martin) |
| Organisation | University of Liege |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are collaborating with the University of Liege in Belgium, Professor Boris Jidovtseff who has developed an online survey which we have translated and adapted from French into English and into the Scottish context. The translated survey is now being adapted and used by Dr Rachel Jones and Dr Karen Tonge at the University of Wollongong, Australia. We did collect data in Scotland to allow a cross-country comparison of parent and educator perceptions of the risk, benefits and child competencies of outdoor play. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professor Boris Jidovtseff provided the online survey in French language and the licence of the online platform for data collection. He also provided his and his institution's expertise in adapting the survey while ensuring psychometric properties. Colleagues in Australia will use our adapted survey to collect data and will also adapt the survey for use in pre-service early years educators. |
| Impact | Output: Undergraduate internship from May -July 2020, abstract submission to the Glasgow Paediatric Research Day (about the adaptation of survey) Data collection as part of this collaboration will commence September 2020. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Parent and educator outdoor play risk perception survey (Anne Martin) |
| Organisation | University of Wollongong |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are collaborating with the University of Liege in Belgium, Professor Boris Jidovtseff who has developed an online survey which we have translated and adapted from French into English and into the Scottish context. The translated survey is now being adapted and used by Dr Rachel Jones and Dr Karen Tonge at the University of Wollongong, Australia. We did collect data in Scotland to allow a cross-country comparison of parent and educator perceptions of the risk, benefits and child competencies of outdoor play. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professor Boris Jidovtseff provided the online survey in French language and the licence of the online platform for data collection. He also provided his and his institution's expertise in adapting the survey while ensuring psychometric properties. Colleagues in Australia will use our adapted survey to collect data and will also adapt the survey for use in pre-service early years educators. |
| Impact | Output: Undergraduate internship from May -July 2020, abstract submission to the Glasgow Paediatric Research Day (about the adaptation of survey) Data collection as part of this collaboration will commence September 2020. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Parental outdoor play risk perception survey (Anne Martin) |
| Organisation | University of Liege |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are collaborating with the University of Liege in Belgium, Professor Boris Jidovtseff who has developed an online survey which we have translated and adapted from French into English and into the Scottish context. We will be collecting data in Scotland to allow a cross-country comparison of parental perceptions of the risk, benefits and child competencies of outdoor play. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professor Boris Jidovtseff provided the online survey in French language and the licence of the online platform for data collection. He also provided his and his institution's expertise in adapting the survey while ensuring psychometric properties. |
| Impact | Output: Undergraduate internship from May -July 2020, abstract submission to the Glasgow Paediatric Research Day (about the adaptation of survey) Data collection as part of this collaboration will commence September 2020. Outputs are expected early 2021. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | School Playgrounds for Wellbeing |
| Organisation | University of Southern Denmark |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Scottish arm of a pre/post/12 month follow up study evaluating the redesign and development of school playgrounds in 3 Scottish schools. We are conducting fieldwork, data collection, and analysis of the Scottish arm of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Danish team are doing the equivalent evaluation design within Danish schools, and we aim to pull these together in a cross-country comparison. The Danish team will provide training for certain study protocols. |
| Impact | None as of yet. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | University of Queensland and University of Leeds (Anna Pearce) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to an internal funding application to the University of Queensland to fund initiation of the collaboration with University of Leeds and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Developed content of workshops, facilitated and presented at workshops, contributed ideas for joint research, supported continued development of the collaboration across the three institutions via Teams and smaller meetings |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Queensland initiated the collaboration, provided funding to support researchers (including myself) to visit Queensland, contributed to the workshops, ideas for joint research, supported continued development of the collaboration. University of Leeds contributed to the workshops, ideas for joint research, supported continued development of the collaboration and are providing funds for a visit to University of Leeds this summer. |
| Impact | Series of workshops. Disciplines cross various social sciences, public health and epidemiology |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | University of Queensland and University of Leeds (Anna Pearce) |
| Organisation | University of Queensland |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to an internal funding application to the University of Queensland to fund initiation of the collaboration with University of Leeds and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Developed content of workshops, facilitated and presented at workshops, contributed ideas for joint research, supported continued development of the collaboration across the three institutions via Teams and smaller meetings |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Queensland initiated the collaboration, provided funding to support researchers (including myself) to visit Queensland, contributed to the workshops, ideas for joint research, supported continued development of the collaboration. University of Leeds contributed to the workshops, ideas for joint research, supported continued development of the collaboration and are providing funds for a visit to University of Leeds this summer. |
| Impact | Series of workshops. Disciplines cross various social sciences, public health and epidemiology |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | University of Strathclyde SPACES collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This was a collaboration between Dr McCrorie and a PhD project team at the University of Strathclyde who have underpinned a PhD project by using our SPACES dataset. My role was to facilitate transfer of data, consult on the project, comment on papers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This was a PhD project so the student conducted research based on data from our research team. |
| Impact | Wong, L. S., Reilly, J. J., McCrorie, P. and Harrington, D. (2023) Physical activity levels during school recess in a Nationally representative sample of 10- to 11-year-olds. Pediatric Exercise Science, (doi: 10.1123/pes.2022-0144) (PMID:37487584) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | 'Having heritage sites in your neighbourhood and visiting heritage improves mental health' blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | We published a paper in BMJ Open and summarised the findings within a short blog on the SPHSU website. It was promoted via the SPHSU's twitter account and our collaborator's (Historic England) website (https://historicengland.org.uk/research/current/social-and-economic-research/wellbeing/wellbeing-and-place/) and twitter account. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthsciencesunit/shari... |
| Description | 20-minute neighbourhood coverage in national news outlet |
| 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 | Dr Jonathan Olsen was contacted by a member of The Sunday TImes and asked to contribute to their upcoming artcile about his publication 'Nationwide equity assessment of 20-minute neighbourhoods'. The piece was published on Sunday 4th December 2022 in The Sunday Times, headline - "The best 20-minute neighbourhoods in Scotland" https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-best-20-minute-neighbourhoods-in-scotland-6cdp25f2r |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-best-20-minute-neighbourhoods-in-scotland-6cdp25f2r |
| Description | Actify 2.0 Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In September 2023, Dr Avril Johnstone was invited to host the launch of Actify 2.0. I am a non-Executive director of Actify. Actify CIC is a vital organisation in the sports and physical activity sector, working with the Scottish Government, Public Sector and Third Sector to provide bespoke training and complementary digital materials to help people become more active, more often. The launch was well attended by different stakeholders and has generated significant interest in Actify. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Actify CIC Strategy Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On Monday 28th November, I attended Actify CIC's strategy day as one of their non-executive directors. Actify is a vital organisation in the sports and physical activity sector, working with the Scottish Government, Public Sector and Third Sector to provide bespoke training and complementary digital materials to help people become more active, more often. The day brought together their staff, directors and key partners to shape their future directions as an organisation. I facilitated part of their day which focused on thinking about a whole systems approach to addressing physical activity. The outcome of the strategy day was to improve and change the way Actify think and operates in relation to their work which will have a direct impact on their clients. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Actify Strategy Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Represented the research organisation as an expert and invited director at the Actify Strategy day where my expertise was used to consider issues around evaluation methods, impact, strategic direction, and collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Agent-based modelling for policy seminar (Alice MacLachlan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A joint academic and policy workshop, tailored to promote and widen understanding of the application of agent based modelling (ABMs) in supporting the development of public policy, led by Digital Catapult. Laurence Moore was invited as a presenter and panel member for the discussion session on social policy and public health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/events/agent-based-modelling-for-policy-seminar |
| Description | BBC world service 'world update' radio interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen conducted an interview with BBC World Service on 19th March 2019 to discuss the recent publication in Social Science and Medicine 'Are urban landscapes associated with reported life satisfaction and inequalities in life satisfaction at the city level? A cross-sectional study of 66 European Cities' is published in Social Science & Medicine'. The interview was broadcast to a global audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172w4ktwq2yt2n |
| Description | BECCA stakeholder workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This stakeholder engagement in BECCA aimed to investigate which data and features included in a new web-mapping tool would be of most value to stakeholders. Stakeholder engagement was via i) scoping calls with potential stakeholders, ii) co-creation workshop with stakeholders, iii) stakeholder questionnaire. This has helped with the methodology's design and the final output in terms of usability and content. Fiona Caryl, Laura Macdonald, Jess Hepburn and Rich Mitchell all contributed to facilitating the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/studies/becca/#:~:text=The%20BECCA%20project%20aims%20to,the... |
| Description | Blog Post: What is 'on the ground' in a city linked to levels of inequality in life satisfaction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following Dr Olsen, Dr Nicholls and Prof Mitchells publication in Social Science & Medicine, we produced a blog entitled 'What is 'on the ground' in a city linked to levels of inequality in life satisfaction'. The blog described the paper in plain english and was made accessible to a wide audience through the centre for research on environment society and health website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://cresh.org.uk/2019/03/19/what-is-on-the-ground-in-a-city-linked-to-levels-of-inequality-in-li... |
| Description | Blog post: CHILDREN IN DEPRIVED AREAS ENCOUNTER SHOPS SELLING TOBACCO SIX TIMES MORE FREQUENTLY THAN THOSE IN WELL-OFF AREAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following publication of "socioeconomic inequalities in children's exposure to tobacco retailing based on individual-level gps data in scotland", Fiona Caryl wrote a blog post describing the significance of the findings in plain english that was made accessible to a wide audience through the Centre for Research on Environment Society and Health website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://cresh.org.uk/2019/07/10/children-in-deprived-areas-encounter-shops-selling-tobacco-six-times... |
| Description | Blog: Outdoor early learning and play - how can the scientific community assist with Scotland's greener vision of child development, health and wellbeing? (Avril Johnstone) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This short blog aimed to share our thoughts on how we can assist with Scotland's greener vision of child development, health and wellbeing using Outdoor Early Learning and Play. Our primary audiences were practitioners, policymakers and the third sector. The blog provided an overview of the current context in relation to COVID-19, related research and our novel approach on utilising a whole systems approach to building an evidence base in this area. The blog was posted on Friday 5th June and by Wednesday 10th June it had 220 unique page views. The blog was promoted through Twitter and retweeted by a diverse audience, including researchers, a senior Government Minister (Maree Todd - Minister for Children & Young People), policy, practitioners and the Third Sector. Comments on social media highlighted the novelty and importance of our research in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthscience... |
| Description | British Academy / Academy of Medical Sciences workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Expert participant in a workshop hosted by the BA / AMS looking at Geographic and historic patterns of health inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | British Academy / Wellcome trust workshop on geography and mental health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Participation in two-session expert panel / Workshop on role of neighbourhood and geography in affecting mental health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | COVID-19 online engagement tool (Gillian Bell) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Development of an online engagement tool to start conversations about the wider impact of COVID-19 and lockdown restrictions on health and society, with a focus on inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://covid19tool.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Children's Rights-Based Participatory Methods CPD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | As part of the Children Create project, we organised a CPD event - ran by Children's Parliament - to introduce researchers and third sector organisations to children's rights-based participatory approaches in research. Over 2.5 hours, attendees were provided a platform to learn about and discuss involving participatory methods with children and young people in research, whilst taking a right's based approach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.childrensparliament.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/resources/ |
| Description | Chile GIS Day Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jessica Hepburn presented work at the Chile GIS Day celebration - demonstrating how GIS can be harnessed for public health research. This helped highlight the research that had recently been completed within the places and health program. The participants were interested and excited by the methods used, particularly when it came to using ArcGIS Online to communicate results. The presentation was done virtually, and was translated by the host by having Spanish subtitles - so content was accessibility to the audience (who were primarily from across South America). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Co-production of a grant bid with private and state sector partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Rich Mitchell convened (with partners at UCL) a working group of private and state sector partners to bid for UKRI funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration meeting with Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We formed a small working group to explore the options for supporting Scottish government and public health Scotland in their needs for policy modelling tools. We agreed to seek funds together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference presentation at UKSBM (Anne Martin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the findings of a Scottish Government funded research at the UKSBM Annual meeting (online) to UK and Ireland based academics in the field of behaviours medicine. Impact unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cross Cutting Theme on Health Inequalities Steering Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Our inaugural steering group meeting brought together representatives from research, policy and practice in the field of greenspace, including colleagues from Public Health Scotland, Greenspace Scotland, Forest Research etc. The meeting aimed to: i) establish our steering group; ii) discuss the wider GroundsWell project and the role of the cross-cutting theme on health inequalities; and iii) provide feedback on a theoretical model exploring factors that drive low and non-use of urban green and blue spaces. The meeting sparked discussion on barriers and facilitators to greenspace for those, in particular, who don't use or have low-use of these spaces. We will continue collaborative discussions in this area to advise on wider applicability and ensure the relevancy of our work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cross Cutting Theme on Health Inequalities Steering Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Our inaugural steering group meeting brought together representatives from research, policy and practice in the field of greenspace, including colleagues from Public Health Scotland, Greenspace Scotland, Forest Research etc. The meeting aimed to: i) establish our steering group; ii) discuss the wider GroundsWell project and the role of the cross-cutting theme on health inequalities; and iii) provide feedback on a theoretical model exploring factors that drive low and non-use of urban green and blue spaces. The meeting sparked discussion on barriers and facilitators to greenspace for those, in particular, who don't use or have low-use of these spaces. We will continue collaborative discussions in this area to advise on wider applicability and ensure the relevancy of our work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Discovering heritage in your local neighbourhood blog post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Laura Macdonald created a blog post including findings from an engagement activity that she led upon (in collaboration with Historic Environment Scotland (HES)) at the ESRC 2023 Festival of Social Sciences (4/11/23) held at the University of Glasgow. The blog includes information on how visiting heritage may be linked to improved mental health/wellbeing, and findings from a short questionnaire which activity participants answered. The blog also provides a link to published research on heritage and mental health led by Laura Macdonald. The blog post was shared on social media, with HES, and with activity participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthsciencesunit/shari... |
| Description | Dissemination of JPAH Paper (Avril Johnstone) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A recently published paper was disseminated in two ways: firstly, a graphical abstract posted on Twitter via the publishing Journal and, secondly, a short blog post to Actify comprising text, recording, and infographic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr Jonathan Olsen gave an invited seminar talk to the Population Health Research Group, University of St Andrews. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen gave an invited seminar talk to the Population Health Research Group, University of St Andrews on Tuesday 21st November 2023 titled "Inequalities in place-based planning policies focused on local living, such as the 20-minute neighbourhood". Approximately 50 people attended (in-person and online), including academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ESRC Festival of Social Sciences interactive heritage map activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Laura Macdonald, and Laura Diffey-Higgins from Historic Environment Scotland, developed a table-top, public engagement activity for the 2023 ESRC Festival of Social Sciences event, in the Byres Community Hub. The primary objective of the activity was to present a visual representation of mapped heritage sites and explore residents' awareness of local heritage. The map served as a conversation starter to discuss connections between visiting heritage and the enhancement of mental health and well-being. Participants were asked to provide their postcodes for an interactive heritage map to discover sites, such as listed buildings, scheduled monuments and designed gardens and landscape, within a 20-minute walk of their home. They were also given the opportunity to learn about the positive impacts on mental health associated with having heritage sites locally and visiting and engaging with heritage. The activity garnered a positive response with members of the public displaying a keen interest in the heritage sites within their local neighbourhoods. Some participants were surprised by the abundance of local heritage sites, in particular listed buildings, while others had limited awareness of the heritage in their local area. Participants commented that they found the interactive map to be particularly informative and enlightening. They expressed a newfound enthusiasm to seek out and explore heritage in their local area. They discussed specific sites that they were fond of, with one participant acknowledging that visiting heritage brought them happiness. Many expressed a shift in their perspective, having not previously considered the mental health benefits of visiting heritage sites, and expressed interest in finding out further information about potential benefits. For further information on the 2023 festival: https://festivalofsocialscience.com/events/partner/university-of-glasgow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://festivalofsocialscience.com/events/discovering-heritage-in-your-local-neighbourhood/ |
| Description | ESRC FoSS 2022 - 20-minute neighbourhoods Young Person activity (Jonathan Olsen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen, Dr Jess Hepburn and Gillian Bell created an activity for the 2022 Festival of Social Science for Young People. We created an interactive online tool where Young People searched for their home, just like Google Maps. It then showed them whether there is a food shop, park, school, cinema or library, within a 10 minute walk of home. Via the Schools Health and Wellbeing Improvement Research Network (SHINE) network, we recruited 20 schools to take part. We then asked young people to think about what they have available in their local area and then complete the Place Standard Tool for Children and Young People. The tool has been adapted and developed by the Scottish Government, Play Scotland and A Place in Childhood, in consultation with children and young people. An video explaining the tool was also created. A total of 355 young people completed the online survey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthsciencesunit/progr... |
| Description | Edinburgh Student-led conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk on environment and health inequalities to students studying policy and practice around health and social issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Engagement event at COP26 GreenZone, Glasgow, 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen and Gillian Bell were successful in hosting a booth at the COP26 GreenZone and showcased a video that described research conducted at SPHSU of how built environment features, including natural spaces, in cities are associated with improved health and reduced health inequality. This was through an application to Universities UK. The GreenZone was accessible to the public, third sector organisations, academics, policy professionals and schools. Individuals from each of these sectors visited the stall. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Evangelism for agent based models to third sector organisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Hosted a meeting with Actify to explain the use of agent based models in analysis of physical activity, and demonstrated some research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Evening reception hosted at Scotland House, London, for politicians, third sector organisations, research funders and research organisations (Jonathan Olsen) |
| 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 | Dr Jonathan Olsen, Prof Rich Mitchell and Dr Jonny Stokes participated in an evening network reception hosted at Scotland House, London, for politicians, third sector organisations, research funders and research organisations entitled 'Creating Healthier Places: A Place-Based Approach to Research & Partnership'. The evening reception took place on Tuesday 27th February 2024 and was attended by politicians, third sector organisations, research funders and research organisations from across the UK. The Places and Health team disseminated their research about 20-minute neighbourhoods and aspects of place that can benefit or harm health and health inequalities. The team created a 4-page evidence summary document which was provided to attendees. Prof Iain McInnes gave a keynote presentation that highlighted and discussed the Places Team research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Expert Panel - International Play |
| 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 | Dr Paul McCrorie was an invited expert on an international panel discussing risky play, nature, and children's health. Other panellists were from Canada, England, and Norway. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Expert lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Expert talk given to CRUK/Ludwig led conference. I set out the work of the programme at the leading edge of assessing how built environment might relate to cancer prevention. There was a Q&A discussion afterwards. I was contacted by third sector organisations afterwards for follow up and connections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Expert lecture on impacts of covid on outdoor environment use |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to a third sector organised meeting on urban planning and green environments. I presented information and evidence about the impact of covid on use of green spaces and the policy options going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Focus group consultation and discussion with professional experts on green space quality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We conducted a focus group with professional practitioners to exchange perspectives on measuring green space quality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Formal dialogue with John Muir Award |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Through formal dialogue with the John Muir Award we created a collaboration enabling a PhD studentship to study the award. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Glasgow Science Festival - community open day at Clarice Pears |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen developed and led an activity at the Community Futures Day, as part of the Glasgow Science Festival 2023. The activity used an interactive place-making tool based on the Place Standard. We created a new interactive activity for the event where people decide what is good, ok and not so good about their neighbourhood, across categories including transport, access to nature and employment opportunities. They could also look up their postcode on the Scottish Living Locally Data Portal to see how connected their home is to 12 living locally domains. Around 200 people visited during the afternoon, including Patrick Grady (MP for Glasgow North) and Councillor Kenny McLean who stopped to chat about 20 minute neighbourhoods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Green Health Webinar (public health scotland) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen and Professor Rich Mitchell were invited to present at the Green Health Webinar hosted by Public Health Scotland and NatureScot. Approximately 200 people attended the event where Dr Olsen presented what have we learned about COVID19's impact on people's use of greenspace from Scottish surveys. Professor Mitchell presented Years 1-3 of Green Health Partnerships - considering the activities, achievements and progress towards mainstreaming green health in the initial period of the four pilot Green Health Partnerships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://book.shsc.scot/shsc/frontend/reg/tOtherPage.csp?pageID=164687&ef_sel_menu=3313&eventID=457 |
| Description | Hannah Burnett invited interview on national radio (BBC Radio Scotland) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Hannah Burnett (phd student) invited to interview about research on BBC Radio Scotland following press release about the publication of our paper "Change in time spent visiting and experiences of green space following restrictions on movement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of UK adults" in BMJ Open. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Health inequalities presentation and Q/A session with Secondary school pupils |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Laura Macdonald undertook a presentation on health inequalities in Scotland and on our 'environmental bads' papers to around 20 Modern Studies pupils (S5, 16-18 yrs) at a secondary school, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards in a short Q and A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Health inequalities reception at Scottish Parliament (Gillian Bell) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The SPHSU was invited to have a stall at an evening reception at the Scottish Parliament to celebrate the work of the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities. There was a lot of interest in the Unit's research from MSPs and people representing a wide range of health charities and voluntary organisations. It was a valuable opportunity to raise awareness of our work and make connections with others working to reduce health inequalities in Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | HealthyVille engagement activity for children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | HealthyVille is an on-line activity for older primary aged children (aged 8-11 years) in which they can view a virtual "healthy" town, pick the health promoting features, and then read about associations between the built environment and health. The activity was promoted on twitter, Facebook, the Actify hub (https://www.actify.org.uk/module/887), and will be part of the 2020 Midlothian Science Festival Online Schools Programme (Oct 2020) and the Glasgow Science Festival (Sept 2020). We received feedback during the piloting of the activity that the children felt they gained knowledge of the links between the environment and health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthscience... |
| Description | Highland Green Health Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rich Mitchell presented results of his evaluation of the Green Health Partnerships phase 1 in Scotland to NHS Highland staff, public and charities. This led to further opportunities for engagement elsewhere in the NHS and to plans for joint working. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Historic England e-magazine article (Geographic exposure to heritage, reported visits and income deprivation in England) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An e-article written by Laura Macdonald, Natalie Nicholls and Rich Mitchell ('Geographic exposure to heritage, reported visits and income deprivation in England') was published within Historic England's Wellbeing edition of their Latest Research Magazine. The magazine was published on Historic England's website, shared with partner organisations and across social media where it could be viewed by the general public, policy makers, and other researchers interested in the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/research/ |
| Description | Interactive causal map of nature-based ELC implementation (Mccrorie Paul) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interactive map has been created on Kumu as a platform for continued engagement looking at co-produced evidence of the factors associated with nature-based early learning and childcare. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://embed.kumu.io/69bd92ed3125d3de2eeb0823fb1a72cc#practice-of-nature-based-elc |
| Description | Interview for a podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed about equigenesis for a podcast run by a third sector agency. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Introduction to evaluability assessment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rich Mitchell gave a talk to SEPA (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) on nature and health, and particularly on evaluability assessment as a key part of the process of identifying impacts of interventions. Subsequent dialogue took place and SEPA have now earmarked budget and plans to take EA forward for their river realignment projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited Seminar on Simulating Human Mobility Patterns for Public Health Research using ABM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 0 people attended the invited seminar "Simulating Human Mobility Patterns for Public Health Research Using ABM," where I demonstrated how individual mobility patterns can be used in cases of air pollution exposure and children's physical activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited expert panel member - Thrive Outdoors Conference 2022 (Paul McCrorie) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited expert on a panel for the Thrive Outdoors conference 2022: Growing the Ambition Together. Session was exploring how we can embed outdoor play for all. Approximately 100 in attendance. Used this opportunity to disseminate some engagement materials on behalf of the research group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.inspiringscotland.org.uk/thrive/thrive-outdoors-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Invited interview on regional radio (Radio Clyde) which was broadcasted across their 8 radio stations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Invited to interview about research on regional radio station following press release about the publication of our paper "Change in time spent visiting and experiences of green space following restrictions on movement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of UK adults". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited presentation - Public Health Information Network for Scotland (PHINS) annual webinar: commercial determinants of health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen provided a Invited presentation at the Public Health Information Network for Scotland (PHINS) annual webinar: commercial determinants of health. The event was attended by policy makers, ScotGov and public health scotland staff. In addition to general public and academics. The presentation was nhealthy commodity advertising: understanding individual and area based policy interventions for children's exposures . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.scotpho.org.uk/about-us/public-health-information-network-for-scotland-phins/ |
| Description | Invited presentation - inVIVO planetary health annual conference: SESSION 6: Food Systems for Flourishing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation - inVIVO planetary health annual conference: SESSION 6: Food Systems for Flourishing. Dr Olsen presented "Social inequalities in exposure to unhealthy product advertising" to appoximately 50 participants at an annual conference. There was a mix of academics, practitioners and third sector organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.invivoplanet.com/program.html |
| Description | Invited presentation at 20 Minute Neighbourhood Practice Network Meeting, Scotland's Regeneration Forum. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen was invited to present at SURF Scotland's (Scotland's Regeneration Forum) 20 Minute Neighbourhood Practice Network Meeting, Scotland's Regeneration Forum on Thursday 21st July 2022. Over 100 individuals attended from Local Authorities, Transport Scotland, Scottish Government and third-sector organisations. Dr Olsen gave a talk entitled Nationwide equity assessment of the 20-minute neighbourhood in the Scottish context by socioeconomic status and urbanicity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Places and Spaces for Health and Wellbeing 2023, sponsored by Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen was invited to present at the 10th annual Places and Spaces for Health and Wellbeing 2023 seminar, sponsored by Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Dr Olsen presented "Living locally and 20-minute neighborhoods in Scotland: can they reduce health inequalities?". Other presenters were from achitechture, RIAS, Play Scoland and Sustrans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited presentation at South American Environmental Geospatial Data and Health workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen was invited to an international Environmental Geospatial Data and Health workshop hosted by CIDACS and for academics and policy makers in South America. Dr Olsen presented work on using satalite data to describe urban morphology and its impact on health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited presentation to Food Active Learning and Development Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen was invited to present his research findings relating to unhealthy commodity advertising to the North West England's Food Active Learning and Development Session. 50 professionals from local authorities, third sector organisations and public health groups attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited presentation to Impact Engagement Invited presentation to Impact Engagement Sustainable Building 2021 conference. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen gave an invited presentation "What are the wellbeing impacts of Covid-19, lockdown and access to green and recreational spaces" to Impact Engagement Sustainable Building 2021 conference. The audience were largely from local authorities, third sector organisations and the NHS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://impactengagement.co.uk/health-and-wellbeing-2021/ |
| Description | Invited presentation to Impact Engagement Sustainable Building 2021 conference. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen provided an invited presentation to Impact Engagement Sustainable Building 2021, Design and Placemaking in a Post-Covid World Webinar on 13th January 2021. The event was supported by Architecture & Design Scotland, PAS, RIAS and SEDA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://impactengagement.co.uk/sustainable-building-2021/ |
| Description | Invited presentation to Park Managers Forum conference organised by greenspace Scotland. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented at the Greenspace Scotland Park managers Forum on Wednesday 19th May 2021 "What survey data tells us about people's use and experience of parks and greenspaces during Covid-19 and implications for the future". Approx 50 park managers and local officials from local authorities across Scotland attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited presentation to Park Managers Forum on Play & Play Sufficiency Assessments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen and Dr Avril Johnstone were invited to present to the Park Managers Forum session on Play & Play Sufficiency Assessments. They presented "Children, Play, and Play Sufficiency Assessments - What research can offer.". The session was organised by Greenspace Scotland (third-sector organisation) and attended by over 60 participants from Public Health Scotland, PlayScotland, Scottish Government and Local Authorities who are involved in local development plans and openspace planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited presentation to the Health Inequality Laboratory, hosted by the UK Bureau Local health inequality reporting team. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 35 people attending the first meeting of the Health Inequality Laboratory, the focus was on Health and Place - so how does where you live, and what you're surrounded by, influence your health outcomes? And why? I was invited to provide a 10 minute overview of health inequalities and place. The Health Inequality Laboratory is hosted by the Bureau Local health inequality reporting team, part of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-inequality-laboratory-health-and-place-tickets-164336546033 |
| Description | Invited seminar at the Geospatial Data Science Lab, University of Liverpool. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen gave an invited seminar talk to the Geospatial Data Science Lab, University of Liverpool on Wednesday 8th November 2023 titled "Inequalities in place-based planning policies focused on local living, such as the 20-minute neighbourhood". Approximately 60 people attended (in-person and online), including academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited seminar to School of Public Health, UNSW Sydney. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen gave an invited seminar to School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney titles "Health Geography and big geospatial data: how can it support planning and health policy?". The seminar attracted over 50 attendees across the UNSW School of Population Health and Future Cities Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited speaker at the Cross Party Group on Health Inequalities (Avril Johnstone) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I presented at the Cross Party Group (CPG) on Health Inequalities on the theme of Active approaches to health inequalities affecting children and young people. My presentation focused on the results of the Active Healthy Kids Scotland Report Card, which was published in November 2021. After the presentation, there was a Q and A in which attendees were able to pose questions to the presenters. The session was chaired by MSP, Brian Whittle and attended by over 60 individuals from the private, public and third sectors. The Chair mentioned a desire for a parliamentary debate on the topic in the future and one Third Sector organisation has reached out to discuss collaborating on future activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://vhscotland.org.uk/cpg-health-inequalities-active-healthy-and-creative-children-in-scotland/ |
| Description | Invited workshop at the annual Pupil Inclusion Network Scotland Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr McCrorie led a workshop entitled "What is known about children and young people's engagement with physical activity and how can it be increased". This was an interactive session embedding findings from work conducted by members of the Neighbourhoods and Communities Programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.pinscotland.org/events-health-and-wellbeing.html |
| Description | Keynote address at Scottish Outdoor Learning Forum meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mitchell gave a keynote address to a meeting of teachers, practitioners, third sector organisations etc engaged in providing and planning for outdoor learning. The meeting led to ongoing discussions about future research with third sector organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lecture on health inequalities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Laura Macdonald undertook a lecture to post-graduate students on the Masters in Public Health course on 'the environment and inequalities in health and well-being'. The lecture provided students with information on health inequalities more generally and also allowed Laura to showcase our programme's recent research on inequalities in the built environment (i.e. work on walkability, environmental bads etc). The lecture led to questions and discussion amongst the students about research into health inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Magazine article (by Dr Hyesop Shin) |
| 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 | This article explores the use of simulation techniques to measure population exposure to high levels of PM2.5 (particulate matter) in London. The author discusses the limitations of current approaches, such as mapping pollution fields based on average PM2.5 levels at home addresses, which do not account for individuals' actual movements throughout the day. To overcome these limitations, the author proposes using agent-based modelling (ABM), which creates a virtual world of London with individuals moving around the city and being exposed to PM2.5. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://airqualitynews.com/health/computer-simulation-measures-population-exposure-to-air-pollution-... |
| Description | Meeting with Patrick Grady MP for Glasgow North to discuss place-based planning and health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen and Dr Jonathan Stokes met with Patrick Grady, MP for Glasgow North, to discuss our research on local living and 20-minute neighbourhoods. Patrick was particularly interested in evidence to support place-based decision making and has promised to follow up by supporting dissemination at Holyrood and Westminster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NHS HackDay (Alice MacLachlan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The PHASE Network funded a team of five researchers with expertise in modelling and public health to attend an NHS HackDay in Cardiff in May 2023. Hack Days provide an opportunity to bring together a wide range of skills in the same room and brainstorm collaboratively and come up with quick solutions to NHS challenges. The team from PHASE met NHS practitioners and people from a range of different sectors and disciplines at the event, and used this as an opportunity to promote the potential applications of modelling to health challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://nhshackday.com/ |
| Description | Nature and Children's Health conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr's Olsen and McCrorie led the funding application and development of the IHW Solutions Focused Research Theme funded ââ'¬ËœNature and Childrenââ'¬â"¢s Healthââ'¬â"¢ conference on 22nd October 2019. Around 80 people from a wide range of practice, policy and research backgrounds participated and the event created a new network that will host a similar event in 2020 that will be led by the Places Programme and in collaboration with Scottish Natural Heritage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nature-based childcare in Scotland and beyond - the role of research in understanding its impact on children's health and development. A blog for Play Outdoors Magazine (Avril Johnstone) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Play Outdoors Magazine is devoted to sharing articles and ideas about the importance of outdoor play in the lives of children, from a variety of perspectives and writers. This magazine is intended to be a resource for adults who influence children's experiences, play, and learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://online.flipbuilder.com/Beverlie/hpdy/ |
| Description | Nature-based early learning and childcare and young children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development - Outdoor Play Canada resource (Avril Johnstone) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Outdoor Play Canada is a growing network of leaders and organizations working together to galvanize an outdoor play movement across Canada. They have a website (https://www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/portfolio_page/the-influence-of-nature-based-early-learning-and-childcare/) that shares a list of news and resources related to outdoor play. In relation to this, they have posted our Nature-based early learning and childcare systematic review report for the Scottish Government on their resources page which enables those from Canada to access this report more easily. After just over a week of being on the Outdoor Play Canada Website, the resource has had 47 views from 6 different countries: Canada (20), UK (14), Ireland (6), USA (3), Australia (2), and Germany (2) which demonstrates it's international reach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/portfolio_page/the-influence-of-nature-based-early-learning-and-chi... |
| Description | North East Place and Wellbeing Annual Event 9/11/23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rich Mitchell gave a key note address and participated in workshops at the NHS Grampian-led North East Place and Wellbeing Annual Event. This non-academic event brings together citizens, politicians, charities, local authorities, public health practitioners and clinicians to address health and health inequalities. Subsequently, local authorities have reached out to participate in a pilot research study looking at planning and the social determinants of health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Open seminar setting out the programmes vision and work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar setting out the theories behind, and research within, the Places Programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Organising committee for international conference |
| 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 | Mitchell was a member of the organising committee for the UNESCO conference on learning cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://uil.unesco.org/event/fifth-international-conference-learning-cities |
| Description | PHASE meeting: Public health insights from agent-based modelling, current research and future directions (Alice MacLachlan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This in-person Network meeting provided an opportunity to bring together modellers and public health experts from across the UK to meet others working in this field, and engage in discussion around methodological challenges, engaging decision-makers and effective use of evidence from agent-based model within public health. The meeting also included presentations from six research teams funded through the network, who have developed models across a range of public health areas including food advertising and the food environment, tobacco control, mental health, urban development and cardiovascular disease. Meeting attendees welcomed the opportunity to meet others working in the field, and the meeting generated plans for taking forwards further agent-based modelling work in public health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | PHASE website and social media (Alice MacLachlan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PHASE website and Twitter account were launched in December 2019 to provide public information about the network aims and objectives, advertise network activities, share resources and provide a way for people to easily get in touch with the network team and sign up as members. As of October 2020 the network has 70 members signed up to the mailing list via the website and a growing Twitter following. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | http://phasenetwork.org/ |
| Description | Panel member for BBC Radio 4 debate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was a panel member on the Positive Thinking show on Radio 4 looking at health impacts of contact with nature. Discussion on the show and by email afterwards, showed the broadcast caught many people's imagination and interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019z22 |
| Description | Places and Children's Health - legacy videos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of the Places and Children's Health KE project, six legacy videos were created that share our research findings in an engaging and digestible format. These videos are on the following topics: • How do the places children live and play shape their health? - https://youtu.be/iZdPTPwz0kA • Children's day-to-day exposures to unhealthy commodities - https://youtu.be/8QcJEbBKL_I • What does a 20-minute neighbourhood look like for children? - https://youtu.be/l4hJkd5xtyA • Active travel: How do we help more Scottish children to walk, wheel or cycle to school? - https://youtu.be/96xNul81_3Y • How does greenspace reduce inequalities in children's mental health? - https://youtu.be/HiIexHAZ_bQ • How physically active are Scottish children? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7O7Ne7VNKE&t=2s These videos were uploaded to YouTube, Actify and shared on social media. In total, the videos have had> 2,000 views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Places and children's health - Harnessing data on children's mobility and movement behaviours to inform policy and reduce inequalities in health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Places and Children's Health participatory workshop took place on Wednesday, May 3rd 2023, with an attendance of over 70 multisectoral stakeholders from various fields such as policy, planning, research and practice. The workshop explored the role of place in improving health and reducing childhood (birth to 18 years) health inequalities and provided a platform for engaging and collaborative discussions among key leaders in the field, passionate about leveraging the power of place to improve the well-being of children. The workshop started with four presentations from experts. They shared current Scottish policy and research related to places and children's health and discussed the importance of multidisciplinary and sectoral-wide collaborations. We then moved into four themed breakout rooms that reflect our research priorities: physical activity, active travel and play; mental health; 20-minute neighbourhoods; and unhealthy commodities. In each, attendees worked collaboratively to identify and prioritise research and policy questions related to the role of place on children's health. Findings from the breakout rooms were synthesised to inform a co-produced research-policy agenda, a summary of the most pressing research ideas. Since the publication of the report at the end of September, the blog which launched the report has had 402 views and the report itself has been accessed 88 times. Furthermore, three non-academic organisations have been in contact to explore potential collaborations which have resulted in productive discussions. The co-produced research and policy agenda has also been used as the foundation of a large research grant to the ESRC where we have highlighted that our proposed project has been informed by the pressing public health needs stakeholders identified during the workshop and as reported in the agenda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/305746/1/305746.pdf |
| Description | Presentation and panel debate at the CRUK / Ludwig cancer conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk and panel debate for the Ludwig Cancer Research and Cancer Research UK Cancer Prevention conference: Physical Activity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at organised session at Nature and Health Virtual Conference, University of Washington. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hannah Burnett was invited to present at the Spatial Mobility and Simulation: Understanding How Environment Affects Health organised session at the Nature and Health Conference, University of Washington. Talk Title: Exploring use and experiences of green space during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at organised session at Nature and Health Virtual Conference, University of Washington. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen presented at the Spatial Mobility and Simulation: Understanding How Environment Affects Health organised session at the Nature and Health Conference, University of Washington. Talk Title: Socioeconomic inequality in Children's exposure and use of natural space measured using individual-level GPS data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.uwnaturehealth.com/ |
| Description | Presentation in a web-based conference (Jonatan Almagor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 45 participants attended a special session organized by PHASE research network as part of the "social simulation week" web-based conference. I gave a presentation titled: An agent-based model of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of smartphone-based contact tracing. The session intended to promote engagement of researchers with the PHASE network, and increase awareness to agent-based modelling in public health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://behavelab.org/video/ |
| Description | Presentation of evidence to public and political forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the South West Partnership for Environment & Economic Prosperity (SWEEP) Expo on evidence about changes to use of green and open spaces as a result of lockdowns. Sparked discussion and engagement from local businesses and politicians. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to Historic Environment Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Laura Macdonald undertook a presentation to Historic Environment Scotland (HES), the lead public body established to investigate, care for and promote Scotland's historic environment. The audiences included from those in relevant roles shaping approaches to heritage management, such as HES' Heritage directorate (i.e., those dealing with regulatory and heritage management policy work), and from Cultural Assets (i.e., those dealing with strategy, policy, and research around our properties in care). Audience members included Head of Designations, Deputy Head of Heritage Policy, Deputy Head of World Heritage and Head of Cultural Resources. Laura spoke about her research collaboration with Historic England (research/paper on heritage and mental health), and current collaboration with HES on children's contact with heritage. She also shared a heritage interactive map created for a Social Sciences festival. Audience members were interested and engaged during a short Q and A session after the presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation to Social Simulation conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation advocating for the development of ABMs to look at public health problems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to global UNESCO webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to UNESCO/PASCAL webinar on Healthy & learning cities. Debate sparked on the role of planning services in affecting health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to international audience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk on enequigenesis to the International Association for People-Environment Studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Press release and coverage in national news outlets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We created a press release with the University of Glasgow for our publication 'Socioeconomic inequalities in children's exposure to tobacco retailing based on individual-level gps data in scotland" which was published in Tobacco Control. The research was reported by 8 national media outlets, including BBC News, Google News, The Scotsman, The Herald, Daily Mail, STV, Evening Times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2019/july/headline_655284_en.html |
| Description | Primary school engagement day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | I ran an all workshop for primary school children, explaining what epidemiology and public health is and talking to them about how our research can affect their environment. This sparked many questions and a lot of discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Public Seminar on Green health partnerships as part of GreenHealth Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a public seminar on the impacts of Green Health Partnerships on interaction with nature and on the links between health and environment sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Public event for Mental Health Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk and debate at a public event organised by a community in London, for Mental Health Week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Public seminar on impacts of covid |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Third-sector organised public seminar on the impacts of covid and practical responses by those involved in the management and promotion of parks and open spaces. Discussion of practical responses that can be made. Surprise at the evidence we presented showing falls in use of green spaces, contrary to popular opinions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | RSE Health and Wellbeing Community of Interest |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rich Mitchell joined the RSE Health and Wellbeing Community of Interest and attended a formal working meeting to set the agenda for the Royal Society's planned work on health inequities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Radio Scotland Drivetime with John Beattie |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited to appear on Radio Scotland's Drivetime with John Beattie to respond to the First Minister's relaxation of COVID restrictions on opportunities to be active in gyms, in groups, and outdoors. I talked about the psychology of self identity and how being physically active can be wrapped up how one describes themselves - and how this has been an important decision to re open gyms and group activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000syy3 |
| Description | Radio Scotland Drivetime with John Beattie (benefits of physical activity for children) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited to appear on Radio Scotland's Drivetime with John Beattie to discuss the benefits of physical activity for children and young people, the impact of COVID restrictions (full lockdown) on opportunities to be active in their local environment. We discussed ways in which parents could help increase opportunities for their children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000spl6 |
| Description | Ran a place-based policies and health learning session for Public Health Scotland. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Olsen, Jonathan Stokes, Roxana Pollack and Laura Macdonald led a place-based policies and health learning session for Public Health Scotland on Wednesday 6th December 2023. This was an invited session by Public Health Scotland as part of their internal learning sessions. The session presented key findings from SPHSU research relating to place-based polices and health, pathways between international 20-minute neighbourhood policies and health, an equity assessment in Scotland, other dimentions of local places and health, and an interactive discussion session explore how to create healthier places. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Research agenda co-production meeting with British Heart Foundation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Rich Mitchell attended a workshop to present findings and discuss future research agendas and actions connected to environmental influences on heart disease. Leaders of BHF Scotland were in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SPACES - webpage and infographics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Working with the SPHSU Engagement and Communications team, we developed a bespoke SPACES webpage and created four infographics. The purpose of these was to showcase the SPACES project to a general audience, present key findings and highlight the impact it has had to date. Since the new SPACES webpage was launched on 10th February it has had 205 hits, with 164 of those being unique page views. In addition, the infographics have been looked at approximately 35 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthsciencesunit/progr... |
| Description | SPACES overview video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Working with the SPHSU Engagement and Communications team, we created a short video where Paul McCrorie briefly described SPACES, its impact to date, and the next steps. This video was posted on YouTube, Twitter (cut to 3 separate videos) and added to our Webpage. This video aimed to showcase the SPACES project to a general audience and highlight the impact it has had to date. Over a few weeks, the YouTube video had 34 views. The reach was more significant on Twitter with a total of 191 engagements (video 1 = 146; video 2 = 27; video 3 = 18). We have also been contacted by two people to understand more about the SPACES project and potentially collaborate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGx7lIyRxs |
| Description | Scottish Physical Activity Research Connections Conference (invited talk) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A poster was presented at the SPARC conference and posted on the Actify website (allowing public access), adding to discussion on staying active outdoors during the pandemic. Poster title: Change in time spent visiting and experiences of green space following restrictions on movement during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationally representative cross-sectional study of UK adults. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.sparc.education.ed.ac.uk/conference-2020/ |
| Description | Seminar to mixed audience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Online seminar explaining and describing the Programme's theory and work to an audience of students, practitioners and other academics. Several follow up emails. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Social Simulation Week 2020 Symposium (Alice MacLachlan) |
| 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 | PHASE symposium titled "Opportunities and challenges of modelling complex health behaviour" delivered as part of the Social Simulation Week 2020 hosted by Behave Lab and the European Social Simulation Association. The symposium included five presenters and audience discussion and reached an International audience of ~40 people from the simulation and public health communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://phasenetwork.org/services/ |
| Description | Talk on systems approaches to thinking about place |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I gave a provocative talk about how our MRC programme considers places as part of the systems which create health inequalities. Much debate sparked! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The role of nature-based early childhood education on children's physical, social, emotional and cognitive outcomes - Outdoor Play Canada Blog (Avril Johnstone) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Outdoor Play Canada is a growing network of leaders and organizations working together to galvanize an outdoor play movement across Canada. They have a website that shares a list of news and resources related to outdoor play. In 2022, they asked us to write a short blog summarising key findings from our systematic review on the role of nature-based early childhood education on children's physical, social, emotional and cognitive outcomes. This website has international reach and our blog post was advertised through other social media networks such as Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/2022/08/10/the-role-of-nature-based-early-childhood-education-on-ch... |
| Description | Urban Environment seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | ESRC-funded seminar on urban environment and health included third sector, postgrad students, planners and clinicians. I gave a keynote address and participated in a panel discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Various online media articles related to publication Dr Nicholls' JECH paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Nicholls et al's article was published in https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/277459/ (JECH) and the press release resulted in interest from/online articles in The Independent, The Times, Eurekalert and ScienceMag (www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/green-space-health-lifespan-benefits-b2204559.html www.thetimes.co.uk/article/living-near-woodland-helps-you-live-longer-5vnjn2763 ; www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/967868 https://scienmag.com/upping-green-space-could-narrow-lifespan-gap-between-poorest-and-richest-areas/ ) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/green-space-health-lifespan-benefits-b2204559.html |
| Description | Visit by the First Minister of Scotland to the Clarice Pears building (Gillian Bell) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Scotland's First Minister visited the Clarice Pears building to meet with UofG Principal, Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, and School of Health and Wellbeing colleagues, and to find out more about the health inequalities research being carried out by the Unit and across the School. Humza Yousaf MSP said: "Tackling poverty and protecting people from harm is one of three critical and interdependent missions for the Scottish Government - alongside our focus on the economy and strengthening public services. Research projects like those being demonstrated by the University of Glasgow are absolutely vital to Scotland's economic and societal growth. The School of Health and Wellbeing's research showcases the innovative thinking taking place at the University of Glasgow, which is typical of Scotland's world-class higher education institutions. The new Clarice Pears building adds tremendous value to the education and research being carried out at the University, creating a space for interaction between the university and local communities to address social and health inequalities." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthsciencesunit/shari... |
| Description | Visit to Westminster to lead drop-in session for MPs entitled 'Creating Healthier Places (Jonathan Olsen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jonathan Olsen, Prof Rich Mitchell and Dr Jonny Stokes led a Westminster lead drop-in session for MPs entitled 'Creating Healthier Places: A Place-Based Approach to Research & Partnership'. The drop is session took place on Tuesday 27th February 2024 and was attended by approximately 15 MPs from across the UK. The Places and Health team disseminated their research about 20-minute neighbourhoods and aspects of place that can benefit or harm health and health inequalities. The team created a 4-page evidence summary document which was provided to MPs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Webinar on green space and covid |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar presented to mixed audience, tracking impacts of covid on use of outdoor spaces. Webinar run by Environmental Protection Scotland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar series: Agent-based models for health improvement (Alice MacLachlan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This 5-part webinar series showcased current research that uses agent-based modelling methods to provide new insights into tackling pressing health improvement challenges. Each webinar focussed on a different area of public health: tobacco control; urban development; employment and welfare; cardiovascular disease risk factors; and food behaviours. Each of the webinars was attended by between 20-60 people, including those from research, practice and policy. There were a range of questions from the audience within each webinar and we have since received requests for further information after the webinars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://phasenetwork.org/abm-resources/ |
| Description | Workshop with leaders of the Scouts, Guides and John Muir Award |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with leaders of research activity related to Scouts, Guide and John Muir Award to discuss developing research assessing the impacts of participation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | World Children's Day: Outdoor Learning and Play Round Table Discussion (Avril Johnston) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The virtual round table discussion brought together four experts from research, policy, and practice on World Children's Day to explore how Scotland is promoting nature-based outdoor learning and play to improve children's health and wellbeing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhxbpcSMyJs&feature=youtu.be |