Valuing Nature Health & Wellbeing Call Event

Tuesday, 14th July 2015 - 10:30 to 16:00

This event was held on 14 July 2015 - videos and presentations from the event are available here.

Austin Court, Birmingham

This Event is an opportunity to find out more about the Valuing Nature Health & Wellbeing Call and to meet potential partners from different academic disciplines or business, policy or practitioner end-users.

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL - YOU CAN SIGN UP TO THE WAITING LIST here.  Because this event has been oversubscribed we plan to share a video of the meeting on the website.

Follow the event on Twitter using the hashtag #VNPHealthWellbeing, or tweet us questions using #VNPQuestion.

Full details

The Valuing Nature Programme funding call on Managing the Environment to Improve Human Health and Wellbeing is now open and available on the NERC website. See further background information here.

To support this the Valuing Nature Programme Coordination Team are running an event on 14 July 2015 at Austin Court in Birmingham from 10:30 to 16:00.

The call is supported by NERC, AHRC and ESRC and will provide an opportunity for natural and social scientists, and arts and humanities researchers to form substantial interdisciplinary research collaborations which aim to increase our understanding of the role biodiversity and ecosystem processes play in human health and wellbeing.

The focus of the call will be on understanding the value of the natural environment for human health (physical and mental) and wellbeing within and across the following three areas:

  • natural hazards and extreme weather events
  • human exposure to pathogens and natural aquatic toxins
  • urban ecosystems.

Who is this event intended for?

This event is open to academic researchers who are interested in applying for the funding call, and to potential end-users of this research: businesses, policy-makers or practitioners.

The event will provide an opportunity to hear more about the call and to:

  • Take an active part in the developing Valuing Nature Network through participating in discussions and networking sessions
  • Hear expert opinion on the challenges of interdisciplinary working and co-delivery with end-users
  • Put questions direct to funders in a question and answer session
  • Network with potential collaborators from other discipline areas or as end-users of research.

How to apply

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL - YOU CAN JOIN THE WAITING LIST here.  Because the number of places are limited we may need to restrict the number of people attending from any one institution.  We plan to share a video of the meeting on the website.

Further background information about the funding call is available here, including reports from the web survey and scoping meeting and input from the Business Interest Group that are being used to help shape the Announcement of Opportunity for this call.