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Staff Research Profiles
Prof Catharine Ward Thompson
Position: Research Professor/Director of OPENspace
Telephone: 0131 221 6176
Email: c.ward-thompson@eca.ac.uk
Web: www.openspace.eca.ac.uk/researchteam_cthompson.htm
The Graduate Research School deals with enquiries about research-led postgraduate study at eca. Formal applications for postgraduate study must be submitted to the Academic Registry.
Profile
My research interests include:
Salutogenic environments
Inclusive access to outdoor environments;
Landscape aesthetics and perception;
Environment-behaviour interactions;
History and theory of urban park design and conservation;
Landscape design for older people;
Landscape design for children/teenagers;
History of landscape design;
Landscape design education.
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- Urban open space in the 21st Century
- Wild Adventure Space its role in teenagers’ lives
- Landscape quality and quality of life
- Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health: Open Space: People Space 2
- Emerging relationships between design and use of urban park spaces
- Preferences of Older People for Environmental Attributes of Local Parks: The Use of Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis
- Development of the Scottish Walkability Assessment Tool (SWAT)
- Associations between neighborhood open space attributes and quality of life for older people in Britain
- The Childhood Factor: Adult Visits to Green Places and the Significance of Childhood Experience
- Patrick Geddes and the Edinburgh Zoological Garden: Expressing Universal Processes Through Local Place