Jenny Shepherd

One of the strands of our work at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) is around 'Trees and Wellbeing'. More specifically, one line of enquiry is measuring a physical response to being in green spaces (particularly woodland, periurban and urban included) and the correlating change in human health and wellbeing. This would benefit from being a collaborative piece of work between BIFoR, which has woodland to validate the methodology; local authorities wishing to validate the health benefit of (urban) green spaces and perhaps estimate the value of green and blue ecosystems; and higher education science partners who may be doing similar research, perhaps with measuring device technology (chlorophyll flourescence and oxygen levels). Any enquiries welcome - happy to discuss