Tagged: Nature

This short film, which premiered at the ACCESS Assembly, introduces the ACCESS Nature Recovery Task Force. This group of leading academic and nature agency social scientists who have been looking at how the social sciences can be more effectively deployed to reconfigure land use and land management policy and practice in the UK to deliver […]

This ACCESS-funded project, conducted by the Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS) in collaboration with the Environment Agency, examined media coverage of bathing water discourse in online UK newspapers. The project provided insight into media narratives, debates and discourses surrounding outdoor swimming, with a particular focus on water-based risk, pollution and water quality. […]

Anita Lateano began her academic journey with a BSc in Psychology at the University of Exeter. It was during this degree, where she started exploring the role of language and discourse in encouraging pro-environmental behaviour, that her desire to forge a career within the environmental sector was sparked. After graduating, she interned for an NGO in […]

Dr Najma Mohamed is Head of Nature-Based Solutions at the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) at the University of Cambridge. Dr Mohamed delivered a keynote at this year’s ACCESS Annual Assembly 2025 on ‘Putting People at the Heart of Place-Sensitive Just Transitions‘. We interviewed her afterwards, asking about her academic journey, […]

Walking is easy right? You just put on a pair of shoes, leave the house and walk along the pavements, woods or beaches right outside your door. We all know the importance of walking; it’s good for our blood pressure, circulation, keeping a healthy weight, muscle tone, heart, lungs etc. etc and it can give […]

The beach holds a special place in my heart. Gazing over the sea, listening to the sound of the breaking waves and feeling the sand between my toes inspires awe, instils calm, releases tension and provides a transitional space for wellbeing, recreation and many other of our human needs and desires. The beach is a […]

Fryent Country Park in northwest London has over 100 hectares of rolling fields and small woods, divided in two by a busy road. This is the park where in June 2020, two women were murdered. The park is nestled in the London Borough of Brent, a borough celebrated for being one of the most culturally […]

What does walking mean to you? Is it an opportunity to relax or something you have to do? Does it give you space to mull over challenging work problems or do you focus purely on enjoying the nature around you? Walking means many things to many people and in our second ACCESS College retreat a […]

The ACCESS team gathered our Fellows together at the end of April for the annual Leadership College Retreat at Dartington Hall. We enjoyed three days of connection, conversation and community in Dartington’s beautiful grounds. (One of our Fellows, Richard Bridge, will be sharing his reflections on the event here very soon.) One of the highlights […]

In November 2024, Professor Patrick Devine-Wright was invited to speak about ACCESS at the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES). The webinar was organised by Ethny Childs, Communities & Partnerships Lead at IES. IES were interested in exploring how interdisciplinarity can support improved policy and practice, particularly in the climate space, and were particularly keen to […]