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Delivering green social prescribing: An ethnographic exploration of the place of walking and gardening groups in a social prescribing intervention (2025)
Journal Article
Pollard, T. M., Gibson, K., Tupper, E., McGuire, L., Griffith, B., & Jeffries, J. (2025). Delivering green social prescribing: An ethnographic exploration of the place of walking and gardening groups in a social prescribing intervention. Social Science & Medicine, 380, Article 118184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118184

Green social prescribing involves link workers referring people from healthcare systems into nature-based activities, expected to offer holistic therapeutic experiences. Using ethnographic methods, we examined the use of referrals and creation of pat... Read More about Delivering green social prescribing: An ethnographic exploration of the place of walking and gardening groups in a social prescribing intervention.

Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel (2023)
Journal Article
Tupper, E., Morris, S., Lawlor, E. R., Summerbell, C., Panter, J., Jago, R., & Pollard, T. (2024). Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel. Health & Place, 85, Article 103147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103147

The Healthy New Town programme in England set out to 'put health into place' by supporting the design and construction of healthy places to live, including by creating safe environments for active travel. To explore the impact of this approach, this... Read More about Children's experiences of care on walking and cycling journeys between home and school in Healthy New Towns: Reframing active school travel.

‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course (2021)
Journal Article
Russell, A., Johnson, L., Tupper, E., Keegan, A.-A., Atkher, H., & Mullard, J. (2021). ‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course. Teaching Anthropology, 10(3), Article 38-45. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i3.604

'Covid-19 and Me' was an affective learning blog post exercise assigned to 1st year undergraduate students taking a medical anthropology module at the start of academic year 2020-21. We describe the way in which a collective analysis of the accounts... Read More about ‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course.

Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in a movement volunteering programme (2020)
Journal Article
Tupper, E., Atkinson, S., & Pollard, T. (2020). Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in a movement volunteering programme. Palgrave communications, 6, Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0473-9

The recent phenomenon of movement volunteering programmes is a form of ‘fitness philanthropy’ that combines exercise with volunteering in order for physical activity to generate a more widely shared set of benefits. These newest practices of fitness... Read More about Doing more with movement: constituting healthy publics in a movement volunteering programme.