Healthy Spaces for Work and Study

The natural environment can contribute many benefits to physical and mental wellbeing. In this webinar, Healthy Spaces for Work and Study, we explore how creating spaces to improve access to nature produce positive outcomes for work. From the campus pocket parks to lunchtime seed planting sessions, how can we create healthy spaces for work and study?

Evidence suggests increasing levels of mental health difficulties among UK university students. The university campus is a possible resource to mitigate wellbeing issues through facilitating the salutogenic effects of engagement with nature. EKN’s very own Francesca Boyd examines the opportunity to integrate nature into university students’ daily lives.

Emma Edwards, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, introduces findings from their year-long study across three NHS sites on staff wellbeing and nature connection. The ‘Space to Breathe’ report highlighted the importance of the stress reduction and restorative features of nature. Demonstrating how the findings from the report can be put into action, Nature Recovery Ranger Billy Styles, presents some of the initiatives occurring with staff and patients at The Mount Vernon Cancer Centre.