Pages tagged with: nature

Green Minds Project - Helping hedgehogs in your garden

What's on at the University of Plymouth: Green Minds Project - Helping hedgehogs in your garden. Find out how you can help hedgehogs in your garden and local community. 6 April 2022.

6Apr 202218:00 - 19:00

Good from Woods research toolkit

The toolkit is designed to help you do rigorous research into whether your woodland activity has an impact on the health and wellbeing of participants.

Trees for climate: an emergency help guide

Dr Thomas Murphy talks about the project looking at increasing the accessibility of research for improved native woodland expansion.

Watching nature videos on social media supported people’s mental wellbeing during lockdowns

Researchers from the University of Plymouth used the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 to investigate how people engaged with nature via social media and whether there were associations between this form of simulated nature engagement and wellbeing.

Study links camping to happy, healthy children

Plymouth University news: Children who camp at least once a year are considered by their parents to go on and do better at school, as well as being healthier and happier, according to research by Plymouth University and the Camping and Caravanning Club

Toolkit – wellbeing indicators

The Good from Woods wellbeing indicators draw on and were developed in association with the NHS/New Economics Foundation’s 5 steps to wellbeing: connect, be active, keep learning, give to others, take notice.

Brain imaging expertise supports new discoveries on decision-making process

Research carried out by a University academic has shed new light on the fundamentals of how, and why, we make the decisions we do.

University researcher takes part in major study driving improvement in scientific methodology

Lecturer in Psychology Dr Nadège Bault took part in the Neuroimaging Analysis, Replication and Prediction Study (NARPS), published in Nature.

Youngsters get close to nature on woodland wander

Woodland wander at Efford Marsh Nature Reserve in Plymouth.

Seeing greenery linked to less intense and frequent cravings

A study led by the University of Plymouth is the first to demonstrate that passive exposure to nearby greenspace is linked to both lower frequencies and strengths of craving.

Good from Woods resources

Research into woodlands and wellbeing.

Toolkit – using your research findings

So you’ve done the research and written up or presented your findings. Don’t let your hard work be left in a dusty drawer, use your research to its full potential.