Outputs (2)

Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health (2022)
Journal Article
McGuire, L., Morris, S., & Pollard, T. (2022). Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health. Health & Place, 75, Article 102773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102773

Community gardening is increasingly framed and promoted as a way to foster healthful behaviours, as a wellbeing practice, and as a public health tool. This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with community gardening organisers (n = 9) in the N... Read More about Community gardening and wellbeing: The understandings of organisers and their implications for gardening for health.

Social prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of service providers’ and clients’ experiences (2022)
Journal Article
Morris, S. L., Gibson, K., Wildman, J. M., Griffith, B., Moffatt, S., & Pollard, T. M. (2022). Social prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of service providers’ and clients’ experiences. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), Article 258. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07616-z

Background COVID-19 public health restrictions, such as social distancing and self-isolation, have been particularly challenging for vulnerable people with health conditions and/or complex social needs. Link worker social prescribing is widespread in... Read More about Social prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of service providers’ and clients’ experiences.