Engagement with green space and biodiversity is important for mental and physical wellbeing. There is increasing recognition of inequities in nature access: some groups, including LGBTQIA+ people, experience barriers, e.g. feeling unsafe or unwelcome in rural areas. However, there is little evidence around LGBTQIA+ people's experiences of nature-engagement, and specific benefits and barriers for these groups. Potential questions include: What are current levels of engagement with biodiversity, and access to nature, among LGBTQIA+ communities? What are the barriers to greater engagement and access? How can new interventions (e.g. creative/cultural practices, and science communication around queer ecologies) address these barriers? The topic offers opportunities for collaboration with existing community groups and conservation bodies, and could draw on creative methods; e.g. walking interviews, participatory mapping, photo/video elicitation, and biographical interviews.

By examining the objects, understanding the building, and archival research, the PhD candidate would consider what this collection can tell us about the lives of paupers in Gressenhall.

By examining the objects, understanding the building, and archival research, the PhD candidate would consider what this collection can tell us about the lives of paupers in Gressenhall.

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This project will explore how story-based interventions in urban green spaces might foster nature-connection and wellbeing among disabled and/or neurodivergent people. Research areas include: Barriers experienced by disabled and/or neurodivergent people in engaging with local green spaces, especially in contexts of rapid urban development How existing story-based schemes (such as smartphone story walks) may reproduce exclusion of disabled and/or neurodivergent people from green spaces How innovative, multi-sensory stories can be coproduced with disabled and/or neurodivergent people so as to support their engagements with local green spaces Impacts of creating and engaging with these stories for the nature-connection and wellbeing of disabled and/or neurodivergent people. Proposed methods include in-depth qualitative tools and participatory "experiments" developing story-based interventions in case sites.