Healthy & Sustainable Settings Unit

Joined September 2015
Free virtual conference- What Good Looks Like - 2nd October #WGLL Jointly organised by HMPPS and NHSE. Focus on sharing best practice in improving care and safety in prisons. DM me for further information.
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Great to be involved with a presentation by Dr Alan Farrier @HSSUnit on our research findings about impacts of nature connectedness and wellbeing on self-harm and mental health in prisons @GOOP_PrisonHort @UCLanResearch @UCLanCJP @UCLanICSC @RehabilitativeT
Free virtual conference- What Good Looks Like - 2nd October #WGLL Jointly organised by HMPPS and NHSE. Focus on sharing best practice in improving care and safety in prisons. DM me for further information.
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2 full time PhD studentships available. 1. Healthy Places: Joining Up Healthy Settings 2. Multi Site Study Exploring Horticulture as a Place-based intervention. DM me if interested or see uclan.ac.uk/research/study/r…
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Can anyone help Renske with this important cancer care in prison study?
Plea of the day: Are you, or do you know, a prison officer with experience working with people with cancer in prison? For our cancer care in prison study we would love to hear your views! Contact me: [email protected] @RCGPSecureEnvi1 @PRisoN_network @PRTuk @BSC_PN
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The 2019 Ilona Kickbusch Award for Excellence in Early Career Research Publication in Health Promotion, invites applicants. It is an annual award for the best-published manuscript in Health Promotion International by an Early Career Researcher bit.ly/2MPjDdR
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Imagine the return on investment in prison settings (drum bangs.again🙄) @RehabilitativeT #naturalhealthservice @GOOP_PrisonHort
Natural England's @MarianSpain cites research from @drabagnall at the Leeds Beckett Centre for Health Promotion which found that for every £1 invested in @WildlifeTrusts programmes, there is an £8.50 social return. #NaturalHealthService
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Please note due to high demand our next seminar - from Ruth Parkes, on the 6th November will now in the Harrington Lecture Theatre, Harrington Building. Reserve your place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/connect-c…
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Replying to @HMP_Liverpool
@HMP_Liverpool HornBee (from ‘Hornby’ Rd folks) Honey went down a treat at yesterday’s @MoJGovUK Biodiversity day 😋
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Professional football clubs involvement in health promotion @JasonSwettenham @DrRosieMeek @HSSUnit
This paper shows the opportunity for organizations to implement translational approaches within football-based settings: Professional football clubs’ involvement in health promotion in Spain: an audit of current practices bit.ly/2nICm0E #Spain #football #health
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DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: Thurs 10 Oct is World Mental Health Day. With local partners including @BigWhiteWall1 & @AddactionUK we're organising *Preston Wellfest*. A day of free workshops, activities & opportunities to talk about our mental health. #Preston @blogpreston @UCLanWhatsOn
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Watch out for the @UCLanSU S.H.A.G. Project volunteers out and about on campus today and Wednesday giving away freebies and sexual health information - ask them how you can get involved! #volunteering #SexualHealthAwarenessGroup #suvolunteering #OneOfUsSU #uclanfreshers
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Our new article on the @GOOP_PrisonHort initiative and growing food in prison - free access for 50 days
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Replying to @russwebt
Fabulous! & @GOOP_PrisonHort @HSSUnit deliver evaluated ‘whole system’ sustainable therapeutic horticulture in NW prisons: great to see more evaluations of the benefits of nature in prisons #biophilia #naturalhealthservice
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To those interested in #children #nutrition and #advertising: Space-time analysis of unhealthy food advertising: New Zealand children’s exposure and health policy options bit.ly/2MK5rnN #obesity #spatiotemporalanalyses
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3% children cycle to school. 23% reception age children overweight or obese. Need to work with partners to change to enable children to cycle
So only 3% of children cycle to school yet our childhood obesity problem is worsening with 23% reception age overweight or obese. This needs a think and a connect @dr_sakthi @shaungturner @ChrisLee1972
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For Early Career Researchers: The Ilona Kickbusch Award for Excellence in Early Career Research Publication in Health Promotion is an annual award for the best published manuscript in Health Promotion International. See here for further details: bit.ly/2SpSPEr
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