🥬 Last week, our GroundsWell co-director Sarah Rodgers shared her insights on how urban green and blue spaces can help reduce health inequalities to Natural England's Urban Greening Network.
👀Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sck...
#HealthyPlaces #PublicHealth #UrbanHealth #HealthInequalities
🎉New research from our PhD student Rukun Khalaf, exploring how access to natural environments influences neonatal health.
👀Key finding: Deprivation does not equally affect the relationship between nature and newborn health
Read more here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#prevention #health
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⚡ New report! ✨
We are pleased to launch findings from our Innovation Fund project with SAFE Regeneration Ltd.
You can read the full impact report, watch the video highlights or find out more about the programme on our website here ➡️https://groundswelluk.org/Projects/SAFERegeneration/
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⭐️Free Community Journalism Course!
You don’t need any previous experience – just be living in Liverpool, Edinburgh or Belfast and interested in your community's green and blue spaces.
Online training 6–7:30pm Tuesdays for 6 weeks. Apply by 17/02/26!
👉greatercommunitymedia.com/groundswell
Come and join our starter pack for urban green and blue spaces, health and inequalities!
go.bsky.app/AankoTb
poster advertising the festival of data from 5-7th feb
👀We're hosting a workshop at the Liverpool Festival of Data! We'll be running our Data Detectives game all day on 7th Feb at @accliverpool.bsky.social so come along and join the fun😀
To find out more and secure your place, visit www.festivalofdata.co.uk.
#data #festivalofdata
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🌿 New report! We’ve published evaluation findings from Our Beautiful Grotspots with Regenerus, exploring how community-led greening in Bootle boosted wellbeing, pride & biodiversity.
📘Read more ➡️ groundswelluk.org/publications/
#GroundsWell #UrbanGreening
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🌿Why do a quarter of people rarely visit local green spaces?
Join our WEBINAR to explore the Green Gap Framework: uncovering the reasons behind low & non-use of #urbangreenspace
📅 24 Nov 🕐 1–2pm
🎤 Dr Avril Johnstone & Rob Bushby
🔗 Register: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Traditional evaluations miss lived realities.
Discover how community researchers build bridges—not barriers—in health research.
▶️ Watch “From Barriers to Bridges” on YouTube: youtu.be/9QzIGoCJa9Y
#CommunityResearch #HealthEquity #ParticipatoryMethods
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🌳Earlier this month, GroundsWell presented at the
Mersey Forest #BritishScienceFestival event: Science of the Forest: People, Nature and Climate.
Read Dr Zhang's reflections here👉 groundswelluk.org/GroundsWellB...
#UrbanHealth #GreenSpaces #ClimateAction #NatureBasedSolutions
📢 Event Reminder – Hybrid Webinar this Thursday!
From Barriers to Bridges: Community Researchers as Methodological Innovation in Health Intervention Evaluation.
Join us in person or online. Scan the QR code to register.
Opening doors to the future!
As part of the GROUNDSWELL journey, we’re at Doors Open Day @ University of Edinburgh.
🌱 Come explore how we’re promoting health & wellbeing in our communities.
👉 Details: efi.ed.ac.uk/event/doors-...
Don’t miss out—be part of this exciting hybrid webinar!
What if the key to fairer, more authentic evaluations lies in the voices of the communities themselves?
Not your usual webinar.
Think of it as an experiment in reorientation:
* Research as art
* Policy as imagination
* Practice as poetry
With Dr Marisa de Andrade
23 Sept | 10–11 am (online)
Bring your curiosity. Leave with new ways of thinking.
blogs.ed.ac.uk/scphrp/2025/...
🌿Green spaces aren’t a luxury, they’re a lifeline.
Across our cities, land can be transformed into healthier, fairer places. Our partners shared with us what accessible green space means for their health.💚
Watch & join👇
Full video: youtu.be/5rT6pGSeQnY
#GreenSpaces #UGBS
On 14 August, we gathered at the University of Edinburgh’s Main Library to celebrate the launch of the 2nd Edition of the GroundsWell Community Magazine.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed and attended 💚. Your energy, commitment, and community work make this possible.
magazine article with photographs of the children exploring the canals and wildlife animations.
📖✨The winning article from Lawrence Primary in our #EcoWeek comp with @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social council is LIVE!🎉
Read here👉 groundswelluk.org/Newsandevent...
Keep your eyes peeled for the full online release of all of GroundsWell's Community Magazine, coming soon 👀
#Waterways #YoungJournalists
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🌿Eco Week Competition Winner!🌿
The winner of our competition with @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social is...
Lawrence Community Primary School🎉
Their fantastic article on local waterways will be featured in GroundsWell's Community Journalism Magazine & on our website soon!
#communityjournalism #youngvoices
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✨ Come work with us! ✨
We are hiring a data manager at
@liverpooluni.bsky.social, fixed term until Sept 2026. Strong skills in data management, statistical analysis, problem-solving and communication are essential.
For more details and to apply click here 👇
my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...
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🎉 Our Community Journalism for Kids slide deck is live! Help children tell powerful stories about the environment 🌱📝
Still time to enter our @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social Eco Week competition — deadline 30 June! 🏆
📥 Slides + entry info: groundswelluk.org/Publications...
#EcoChampions #YoungReporters
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🌍 It’s @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social #ECOweek!
We’re launching a community journalism course & competition in Liverpool primary schools with Child Friendly Liverpool 📝
What do kids care about most when it comes to the environment? We’re about to find out - stay tuned!👀
#ClimateVoices #ChildLedChange
Come and work with us on @groundswellcon.bsky.social
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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🌱At our annual retreat last year we asked everyone attending - "What does GroundsWell mean to you?"
Their answers? Take a look — this is what GroundsWell is all about 👇#inspiration #community #healthinequalities
drive.google.com/file/d/1NfkM...
🎥Missed our first #GroundsWell ECRs & Partners webinar? The recording is now available!
Catch powerful insights on public involvement in research & participatory methods from Ruth Livesey & Rebecca Crook
📺Watch here: youtu.be/H5P6rCyaU0c
#ResearchMethods #CommunityEngagement
⏰ Next Wednesday ⏰
Don't forget to register: Public Involvement in Research and Use of Participatory Methods - "We can't do it without them!"
These are the kinds of insights that often go unspoken: "The solutions to the global mental health crisis may not lie in increased diagnoses or medication alone.
Instead, they might be found in the power of care, compassion, empathy, and the wisdom of grandmothers—the often overlooked caregivers and community leaders."
It’s a perspective worth considering. Please give it a read: lnkd.in/g8pUysEi
🌱 Spring Forward: Disrupt. Transform. Innovate. 🚀
The season of renewal brings fresh ideas and radical shifts from our Innovation Fund projects. Don’t miss the key insights shaping what’s next. 🌷
mailchi.mp/d5298a3556e5...
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✨New ECR & Partners Webinar Series✨
We’re launching a rolling webinar series where early-career researchers & GroundsWell partners share innovative research methods shaping our work. Register below!
1⃣ "We Can’t Do It Without Them!"
📅 Wed 30th April, 1PM
🔗https://tinyurl.com/uu9wf6wc
