Dr Jake Simpson

Research Associate

Dr Jake Simpson is an early-career researcher with a keen interesting in environmental science, and specifically of trees and forests. Jake’s PhD focussed on improving greenhouse gas estimates from peatland fires in Indonesia, where he developed novel methods for measuring peatland depth of burn using a new UAV protocol. His interests span a wide range of topics, including remote sensing and GIS methods for environmental monitoring, climate change science and more recently, assessing how greenspaces impact human health. 

Jake’s role at the ECEHH is to bring together a diverse range of environmental datasets, and analyse how these can be used to explain the relationships between environment and public health. This is part of the Urban Greenspace project.

 

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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.
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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.
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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.