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Our research process involves taking actions, reflecting and iterating. This blog is a way for us to share our progress as we go. If there is something that interests you or you want to know more, please use our contact form below to get in touch!
Knowledge sharing across disciplines: Lunchtime webinar exploring how to set up community nature projects
We were incredibly pleased to host a lunchtime learning webinar on setting up a community nature project on May 6th. Bringing together four fantastic speakers, the 1.5 hour session shared both practical advice and inspiring personal stories stemming from their diverse...
COP26 Through the lens of disability and Inclusion
An account of experiences written by one of the Nature’s Way team on the UN Climate Change Conference, 2021. Second talk in a series at COP26. I was really looking forward to attending the GDI COP26 event. GDI stands for Global Disability and Inclusion and was...
COP26 Through the lens of psychology and faith
An account of experiences written by one of the Nature’s Way team on the UN Climate Change Conference, 2021. Second talk in a series at COP26. My first two COP26 talks were presented through the lens of a ‘barrister’ in the first, on ecocide law, and then an...
COP26 Through the lens of enterprise and entrepreneurship
An account of experiences written by one of the Nature’s Way team on the UN Climate Change Conference, 2021. Second talk in a series at COP26. This was an event hosted by Russel Dalgleish - known as the ‘Tall Scottish Man’ and a serial entrepreneur. The venue was The...
COP26 BIPOC Through lens of Indigenous Cultures
CA bigger crisis looms within Nature than COVID Nathalie Seddon, at another COP talk I attended (separate blog here), a professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford and founding director of the Bunloit NbS, says: 'We are living in an almost dead, empty...
COP26 Many lens
An account of experiences written by one of the Nature's Way team on the UN Climate Change Conference, 2021. COP26 Glasgow Pilgrimage I had the intention of attending the 26th United Nations Council of Parties in Glasgow for a while, colloquially known as COP26. It...
Green Social Prescribing – A Walsall Case Through Design-led Research
Text prepared as part of our submission for the 4th International Social Prescribing Network Conference March 2022. Aim Green social prescribing (GSP) enables primary care professionals to refer people to nature-based activities, e.g. community gardening. GSP is a...
Engaging with nature for mental health and wellbeing: post lockdown challenges for green social prescribing
“I don't think they're new challenges. I just think more people are impacted by them, and they're impacted in a greater, more significant way” Even before the Covid-19 pandemic there was a significant ongoing shift in public health thinking and practice towards a...
Design research update
As a key part of our design process, we have spent the last few months focusing our research on the brilliant nature- based, community projects that exist throughout Walsall. We have been incredibly lucky to have been welcomed so warmly into these communities and we...
Environments by design: health wellbeing and place
An Investigation into the Value of Design in Nature-based Solutions for Health and Wellbeing in a Post-COVID World (Abstract) This paper explores the value of design practice in innovating Nature-based Solutions (NbS) - actions that work with nature to address...