Resources

Our team members regularly present their work through conferences and public engagement activities.

Videos

Using art to understand and visualise environments for optimal experience

Amy Isham and Megan Cumming talking about their project 'Using art to explore optimal experiences'

Beyond Consumerism: how do we communicate an alternative vision of prosperity?

Dr Amy Isham speaking as part of a panel on ‘Beyond Consumerism’ at the Adfree Cities National Conference in London

Don't Tell Me to Just Breathe

An animation highlighting the links between our economic system and mental health.

Produced by Swarm Dynamics, with input from Dr Amy Isham

Rethinking wellbeing

Prof Andrew Kemp speaking about his work on developing new theoretical models to better understand wellbeing and its determinants

Publications

We regularly publish our research in academic journals and media outlets. Browse below for examples of some of the outputs from our work.

If you have trouble accessing any of our papers, please contact us and we will be happy to send you a copy.

Promoting Sustainable Behaviours


Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity.
Walker, I. & Brömmelstroet, M.  
Global Environmental Change, 91, 102980

Influence of different cues on willingness-to-try burgers made with insects.
 
Appetite, 199, 107498.

Sustainable food consumption across Western and Non-Western cultures: A scoping review considering the theory of planned behaviour. 
Randall, T., Cousins, A., Neilson, L., Price, M., Hardman, C., & Wilkinson, L.  
Food Quality and Preference, 114, 105086

Framing plant-based products in terms of their health vs environmental benefits: interactions with individual wellbeing
Isham, A., Geusen, J., & Gatersleben, B. (2022)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(19), 11948

Above and beyond? How businesses can drive sustainable development by promoting lasting pro‐environmental behaviour change: An examination of the IKEA Live Lagom project
Elf, P., Isham, A., & Gatersleben, B. (2021)
Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(2), 1037-1050

Healthy Environments Across the Lifespan


The Effects of Traffic Air Pollution in and around Schools on Executive Function and Academic Performance in Children: A Rapid Review
Gartland, N., Aljofi, H., Dienes, K., Munford, L., Theakston, A., & Tongeren, M. (2022)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(2), 749

The ‘Rippling’ Waves of Wellbeing: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Surf-Therapy Intervention on Patients with Acquired Brain Injury
Wilkie, L., Fisher, Z., & Kemp, A. (2022)
Sustainability, 14(15), 9605

My sustainable city—Exploring lay people’s conception of sustainable urban design
Bösehans, G., & Walker, I. (2022)
The Social Science Journal, 59(1), 85-101

Wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link
Isham, A., Mair, S., & Jackson, T. (2021)
Ecological Economics, 184, 106989

Moving to a green building: Indoor environment quality, thermal comfort and health
Elnaklah, R., Walker, I., & Natarajan, S. (2021)
Building and Environment, 191, 107592

Wellbeing in the
Climate Crisis


Green healing: Ecotherapy as a transformative model of health and social care.
Isham, A., Jefferies, L., Blackburn, J., Fisher, Z., & Kemp, A.  
Current Opinion in Psychology, 62, 102005 

What’s next for wellbeing science? Moving from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene
Mead, J., Gibbs, K., Fisher, Z., & Kemp, A. (2023)
Frontiers in Psychology, 14

Nurturing wellbeing amidst the climate crisis: on the need for a focus on wellbeing in the field of climate psychology. 
Isham, A., Morgan, G., & Kemp, A.  
Frontiers in Psychology, 14

Improving Student Wellbeing: Evidence From a Mixed Effects Design and Comparison to Normative Data
Kemp, A., Mead, J., & Fisher, Z. (2022)
Teaching of Psychology, 0, 009862832211124

Finding flow: exploring the potential for sustainable fulfilment  Isham, A., & Jackson, T. (2022)
The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(1), e66-e74