Prof Alison Curnow

Honorary member

Professor Alison Curnow is a senior member of the University of Exeter Medical School’s academic teaching faculty, developing and delivering the School’s medical and scientific undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

She is director of medicine for the School’s undergraduate medical programme and associate professor in science & scholarship.

With over two decades’ experience of conducting translational photobiological and oncological related research, she is known worldwide for her photodynamic therapy (PDT) research and leadership of the International Photodynamic Association.

Alison is an ASPIRE senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), you can access more information about her research here.

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Research project

Beyond Greenspace

How can different types and qualities of natural environment impact human health and wellbeing in the UK?
Research project

Sensing Nature

Sensing Nature is exploring how people with varying forms and severities of sight impairment experience diverse types of nature.
Research project

Interviews with participants – Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn Pilots extension project

'Green social prescribing’ (GSP) describes activities prescribed to people (e.g. by their doctor or a link worker) that take place in the outdoors, typically with other people, delivered by a specific organisation.