Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Dr Jenny Roe is a Senior Research Leader for the Stockholm Environment Institute (from August 2013), formerly a Lecturer within School of the Built Environment, Heriot Watt University and Research Fellow with the University of Edinburgh. She is an Environmental Psychologist and Landscape architect with expertise in restorative environments and salutogenic (health improving) environments focusing on deprived urban cities. Dr Roe is also affiliated to VisionCentre3, an Edinburgh NHS research centre researching quality of life and inclusive environments for people with visual impairment. Prior to an academic career in health, she was Principal Landscape Architect and Associate Director in a multi-disciplinary architectural practice in London specialising in social housing, educational and healthcare design. Her blog postings and films can be found at www.jennyjroe.com
Current projects include:
- Flourish - a 9-month pilot project exploring wellbeing in older people funded by the Technology Strategy Board’s through the Long Term Care Revolution.
- Mood, mobility and place - A 3-year EPSRC research project exploring how places can be designed collaboratively to make mobility easy, enjoyable and meaningful for older people.
- Woods in and Around Towns (WIAT) - A 4-year longitudinal study, funded by the NIHR, exploring the impact of environmental interventions on psychological wellbeing and stress levels of people living in deprived urban communities.
- The Therapeutic Campus: a University of York inter-disciplinary project mapping therapeutic affordances of campus settings with a view to improving student wellbeing
Keywords
- BF Psychology
- health sustaining cities
- quality of life
- enabling environments
- restorative environments
- health and wellbeing
- blue light
- green infrastructure
Research output
- 14 Article
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Research for city practice
Grant, M., McCunn, L., Ahmad, S., Goodman, A., Creutzig, F., Woodcock, J., Tainio, M., Holmes, T., Eisenman, D., Warwick-Booth, L., Coan, S., Bagnall, A. M., Neale, C., Aspinall, P., Roe, J., Tilley, S., Mavros, P., Cinderby, S., Coyne, R. & Thin, N. & 8 others, , 2 Jan 2020, In: Cities and Health. 4, 1, p. 2-12 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access -
New light for old eyes: comparing melanopsin-mediated non-visual benefits of blue-light and UV-blocking intraocular lenses
Schmoll, C., Khan, A., Aspinall, P., Goudie, C., Koay, P., Tendo, C., Cameron, J., Roe, J., Deary, I. & Dhillon, B., Jan 2014, In: British Journal of Ophthalmology. 98, 1, p. 124-128 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Engaging the brain: the impact of natural versus urban scenes using novel EEG methods in an experimental setting:Environmental Sciences
Roe, J., Aspinall, P. A., Mavros, P. & Coyne, R., 2013, In: Environmental Sciences. 1, 2, p. 93-104Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects
- 3 Finished
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Developing the Death Studies Network
Rugg, J. J. (Principal investigator), Beale, G. (Principal investigator), Roe, J. (Principal investigator), Penfold-Mounce, R. A. (Principal investigator), Denham, J. (Principal investigator) & Poore, B. (Principal investigator)
1/08/14 → 31/08/15
Project: Research project (funded) › Internal pump-priming
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Mobility, Mood and Place: a user-centred approach to design of built environments to make mobility easier, enjoyable and meaningful for older people
1/09/13 → 30/04/17
Project: Research project (funded) › Research