Mel Cairns' Outputs (7)

Cycling in the West of England: Nature, sustainability and wellbeing (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cycling and nature offer individuals health and wellbeing benefits, as well as the potential to contribute to local, national and global sustainability goals. Sometimes cycling and nature coincide, e.g., cycling through natural landscapes or on urban... Read More about Cycling in the West of England: Nature, sustainability and wellbeing.

Nature connection and cycling (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background
Both cycling and nature connectedness offer benefits to human and planetary wellbeing. A mixed methods MSc research project has explored the ways in which nature in general, and connectedness in particular, interacts with cycling practice... Read More about Nature connection and cycling.

Nature and cycling: A literature review (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Both cycling and nature offer a range of benefits to human and planetary wellbeing. Little extant literature has directly asked how nature is experienced as part of cycling practices or how far this may influence cycling. Nonetheless, several studies... Read More about Nature and cycling: A literature review.

A green and pleasant land: Nature and cycling in the English Westcountry (2023)
Journal Article

Everyone’s cycling story is different. This essay tells one such story, starting with rural rides to school, continuing with the bike central to urban mobility and countryside escapes and finishing with research findings about cycling and nature in B... Read More about A green and pleasant land: Nature and cycling in the English Westcountry.

Exploring the effects of social capital on COVID-19 rates at the local level (2022)
Report

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly severe in the UK, there has been a high degree of geographic variation in COVID-19 case rates across the country. Several factors have been put forward to explain such variation in the UK and elsew... Read More about Exploring the effects of social capital on COVID-19 rates at the local level.

Defining and measuring rural wellbeing: Guidance for DEFRA policymakers and evaluators (2021)
Report

Over the past decade wellbeing has moved up agendas across all areas of government and civil society, a trend that has only been magnified by the recent global pandemic. There is growing evidence and understanding about the impact of policy and initi... Read More about Defining and measuring rural wellbeing: Guidance for DEFRA policymakers and evaluators.

What works to improve social capital? A rapid review of the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving social capital outcomes (neighbourhood belonging, social support network and community cohesion)
Report

The research outlined in this report was conducted by Centre for Thriving Places during Spring and Summer 2022 in response to a brief from What Works Centre for Wellbeing (WWCW). The What Works Centre for Wellbeing Team acted as partners for the rese... Read More about What works to improve social capital? A rapid review of the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving social capital outcomes (neighbourhood belonging, social support network and community cohesion).