Wendee is an urban geographer, with research interests mainly including environmental sustainability, wellbeing and urban planning. Wendee is now a postdoctoral researcher at Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery working on project investigating the health/wellbeing benefits of urban green and blue spaces. For the past two years, Wendee worked on projects funded by medical research council on health benefits of urban green and blue spaces in Merseyside and Cheshire. Wendee is the current secretary of Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group at RGS. Wendee finished her My PhD in Geography from University of Melbourne, the thesis examined the sustainability transitions of urban planning in a future city, its implications on environmental policies on urban water management, and the usage of hydraulic missions to realise water sustainability. Her research findings had been published on Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Land Use policy, Journal of Environmental Management etc.
Related Projects
Nature for student’s life: The impact of outdoor greenness on mental wellbeing and chronic absenteeism
Does greenness matter to student mental wellbeing and attendance
From greening to wellbeing: Multi-scale analysis of green infrastructure and mental health at population level within the UK
A mixed methods investigation into how green infrastructure influences mental health across diverse communities and landscapes in the UK
Related Outputs
From Greening to Wellbeing
From greening to wellbeing: Spatial and social-economic disparities in School outdoor greenness and the impact on mental wellbeing and school attendance in children and adolescents. Wendee gave a presentation to the Healthy Ecosystem Restoration in Oxfordshire (HERO) Network on 9/4/2025 about her research.
