Congratulations to Dr Helen Hoyle, Lecturer in Healthy Urban Landscapes in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Faculty of Social Sciences, who has been awarded a prestigious 24-month NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) Transdisciplinary Fellowship.
From 1 September 2024 Helen will work with Professor Liddy Goyder and colleagues in the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR) in the Faculty of Health. Building on her successful Transdisciplinary Placement on ‘Sensing Biodiversity’, she will apply place-based expertise from Landscape Architecture to address significant Public Health challenges such as climate change and physical and mental health inequalities.
Helen’s research at the intersection of people and nature has equipped her with the skills to both understand how people interact with and benefit from natural environments and to design interventions that maximise benefits for human wellbeing, biodiversity, and climate resilience.
During the first year of the fellowship Helen will complete a Master of Public Health (MPH) in SCHARR, Sheffield, providing opportunities to grow wider collaborations and networks across place-based Landscape and Health.
