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Welcome to the Outdoors and Health Network Website
The Outdoors and Health Network is a collaborative network of researchers and public sector/policy representatives that have come together to examine the relationship between individuals’ health and well-being and their use of the outdoors. The first year of this project has been co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC), under the Understanding Individual Behaviour Exploratory Networks (UIBEN) Programme. Over the last 12 months the network members have been collaborating on a project called “Society’s relationship with the natural world and the role of the outdoors in health and well-being”.
Outdoors & Health Network from UHI Millennium Institute on Vimeo.
The network commissioned this short film to explain the research that has been undertaken and explain the focus for future research into the connections between health and the outdoors.
Although the ‘outdoors’ includes urban spaces such as the street and pedestrian precincts, this project focuses on the ‘natural’ in spaces where people can engage with nature (from private gardens to wilderness spaces). Previous research has investigated the relationship between health and use of the outdoors but this network provides a new opportunity to connect social scientists with biological and medical researchers. The different disciplines have worked together to develop new, collaborative ways of working.
This web space is a place where network members can share ideas through personal blogs, debate and discuss issues through a web forum and share the knowledge and experiences of the project with a wider audience. Guests visiting the website can keep up to date with the network’s activities and events, download publications, read blogs and add comments. All the blogs and the events calendar have RSS feeds so you can easily keep up to date with what’s going on.
