“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
The aim of this PhD project is to examine the links between well-being, nature and environmental volunteering, with a focus on how, why, for whom and in what ways social and emotional capital is engendered through active nature work. There is limited research on environmental volunteering and its impact on health and well-being and this project will fill that gap. While this research is sensitive to current theoretical interests in emotional and embodied geographies and contributes to emerging conceptual agendas about human-nature relations, the project will also provide policy relevant research that actively contributes to a volunteering strategy for the Forestry Commission and the Scottish Government. The study will involve the use of different research methods, but predominantly semi-structured interviewing, ethnography and focus group work.
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