Staff Research Profiles
Dr Catherine Findlay
Position: Associate Research Fellow
Telephone: 0131 221 6192
Email: c.findlay@eca.ac.uk
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Profile
My research interests lie in the field of horticulture and inclusive landscapes, branching in four principal themes: visitor information and wayfinding at outdoor recreation sites, visual impairment, inclusion for people with disabilities and the use of horticulture as therapy.
Since 2002 I have worked as a research fellow at OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art, undertaking contract research in visitor information and Wayfinding (for the Forestry Commission), Local Open Space and Social Inclusion (for the Forestry Commission), the Social Value of Nature (for English Nature), and developing interpretative media for people with disabilities (with the Eden Project).
I am also involved in developing a project with Thrive to evaluate the use of horticultural therapy in secure settings.
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- The effectiveness of wayfinding systems with forest users.
- Towards a mycorrhizal decision model for landscape management
- Places in Cumbria for wildlife and people
- Open Space and Social Inclusion: Local Woodland Use in Central Scotland
- Root and shoot pruning in root-balled Acer platanoides L: effects on establishment and shoot architecture
- Symbiotic plantings
- Is cataract surgery justified in patients with age-related macular degeneration? A visual function and quality of life assessment
- Biological flora of the British Isles: Sorbus aucuparia L.
- Cataract surgery in patients with age-related macular degeneration: one year outcomes.