From rene.westerholt at tu-dortmund.de Mon Apr 26 10:24:33 2021 From: rene.westerholt at tu-dortmund.de (Rene Westerholt) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 10:24:33 +0200 Subject: [GeoIT.org] Invitation to a RAM Colloquium with Dr Victoria Houlden In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to invite you to the first talk in this term's RAM Colloquium Series: Naturally urban? ? Interdisciplinary perspectives on the socio-spatial relationships between greenspace and wellbeing  Dr Victoria Houlden (University of Leeds); Friday, 21 May, 11 am CET / 10 am GMT, virtual event Registration is possible via the following Google Form (the link to the Zoom session will be shared with all registered participants closer to the event): https://forms.gle/SmkjHHhap5JWz6ef6 The RAM Colloquium is a forum for discussing the latest research in the field of geographical information science. Invited speakers will report on their recent and ongoing work and provide an outlook on major lines and challenges ahead in their respective fields. This time, Dr Victoria Houlden, Lecturer at the University of Leeds, will deliver a talk located in the nexus of urban geography, planning, and mental health. You will find the abstract below and attached. Do not hesitate to forward this message and the attached PDF invitation to your PhD students, colleagues, and anybody who might be interested in the talk and discussion. We look forward to lively participation and discussion! René Westerholt and the RAM team *Abstract:* Increasing urbanisation and socio-spatial inequalities have highlighted disparities in both mental health and access to nature, reinforcing the crucial need to understand how the built environment can support health. One approach is through improved greenspace design, by connecting residents to the natural environment within which humans evolved and are best adapted to flourish. Growing availability of geospatial data and large-scale longitudinal surveys provides a unique opportunity to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between land use and health, disentangling the contextual and compositional factors in how humans experience, and thus benefit from their environment. Combining methods from social and geospatial disciplines, this talk offers a novel discussion of how cities embody wellbeing inequalities, and how the quantity, quality, and accessibility of greenspaces may be optimised to improve mental wellbeing. -- Dr René Westerholt FRGS [Juniorprofessor] [Head, Spatial Modelling Lab] TU Dortmund University School of Spatial Planning Room III/318 August-Schmidt-Straße 10 44227 Dortmund Germany [Tel] +49 (0)231 7552287 [Web (uni)] https://ram.raumplanung.tu-dortmund.de/ [Web (private)] https://www.westerholt-giscience.net -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : RAM_Colloquium_Houlden.pdf Dateityp : application/pdf Dateigröße : 294834 bytes Beschreibung: nicht verfügbar URL :