Grace Dibben

PhD student

Grace is a PhD Student based at the ECEHH.

Grace completed her MSc in cardiovascular rehabilitation in 2013, where her research project investigated the use of underwater echocardiography to assess the acute effects of water immersion in heart failure patients.

Following this, Grace spent 6 weeks at Wake Forest University, North Carolina working within the Health and Exercise Science department.

She then worked as a data manager in cancer clinical trials at University College London Hospital, and a CRN South London trainee research practitioner before moving to Cornwall to start her PhD.

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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.
Research project

Feasibility study: Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn Pilots extension project

As part of the larger Green Social Prescribing (GSP) Test and Learn Pilots extension project, we are carrying out a feasibility study to understand and characterise the best experimental or quasi-experimental study design.
Research project

Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn Pilots extension project  

A consortium of researchers from The Universities of Sheffield, Plymouth, Exeter and Sheffield Hallam have been funded to evaluate a one year extension to the Government’s flagship Green Social Prescribing test and learn pilots programme.