Jennifer Dobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 217632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Dobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobson |
| SIGNATURE | DOBSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6164-2707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using WELLBYs to demonstrate the social value of social prescribing at a national level: Evidence from Green Social Prescribing in England
People, Place and Policy is an online journal providing a forum for academic debate around issues of urban policy, social and economic regeneration, housing and the labour market. Articles deal with the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate the opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society
Environmental wellbeing: A concept and principles for research, policy and action
Environmental wellbeing is often referred to in academic literature but seldom defined. This article provides two contributions to knowledge: (1) developing an integrated concept of environmental wellbeing, positioning it as a locally situated counterpart to notions of “planetary health” and “human wellbeing”, and (2) outlining practical principles for its operationalisation. Building on concepts of environmental justice, this article begins with…
Civic Geographies of Care: Mapping the Scope and Scales of Universities' Civic Action
This article presents empirical evidence from the UK to explore where ‘civic geographies’ emerge and how they are enacted. Responding to Jenkins and Blunt's call in Area for ‘geography as a discipline to revisit its civic scope and ambition’ in the context of universities' civic engagement, it draws on scholarship on care ethics and evidence from recent research with civic universities in England to propose that institutional place‐based civic ac…
Incidence Rates of Covid-19-Associated Hospitalization and Risk Factors for Severe Disease Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons in the Southwest USA and Alaska
Resourcing universities to increase their civic impact: Meeting challenges of communication, complexity and commitment
The 21st century has witnessed an increasing focus on universities’ civic role and their impacts on the social and economic wellbeing of their communities. Recent work in the UK has emphasised the multifaceted character of universities' potential impacts in a context of global and local challenges, but also the persistent difficulties they face in realising such potential at a time when universities’ own financial position is increasingly precari…
Boosterism and belonging: ‘Pride in Place’ and the Levelling-Up Agenda
Path Clearing, Policy Acceleration or Trend Reinforcement: Potential Implications of Selected Local Government Responses to Covid-19 in the UK
Since its onset in 2020 Covid-19 impacts have engendered rapid interventions across all policy domains and at all scales of government. This has prompted lively debate around the wider significance and longer-term implications of such moves with regard to their role as potential 'punctuations' within a broader policy paradigm shift. This includes acting as a ‘path-clearing’ mechanism that heralds a move towards a different approach; representing …
Planning for sociable green spaces after Covid-19
Parks and green spaces have been thrust into the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic In a strange way, academics were initially cheered by the national calls for parks to remain open Parks and green spaces were highlighted as one of only a few destinations that people in lockdown in the UK were allowed to visit That sounded like a description of an essential service Academia and policy makers have long known about the social benefits of parks …
Invisible Illness and Measurability
How many people throughout history suffered from my disease and others like it but went untreated? This question is made more pressing by the knowledge that even though the disease was discovered in 2007, some doctors I spoke to believe that it's been around at least as long as humanity has
The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing
Known but not done: How logics of inaction limit the benefits of urban green spaces
Empirical research has long shown positive connections between urban green spaces and their users’ wellbeing. But compelling evidence does not always lead to appropriate investment. In a study of the contribution of urban nature to mental wellbeing in Sheffield, UK, the authors identified greenspace investments that could lead to improved wellbeing and discussed their implementation with local stakeholders. However, this qualitative study also re…
Wellbeing and blue-green space in post-pandemic cities: Drivers, debates and departures
Covid-19 has focused attention on the importance of urban green and blue spaces (such as parks and watercourses) for human wellbeing. Less attention has been devoted to how those spaces might contribute to a wider rethinking of relations between humans and the more-than-human world in post-pandemic cities. This article outlines how Covid-19 opens up a broader debate about the future of urban green spaces, especially in the global North, but highl…
Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale: A leverage points perspective
The climate emergency and crisis of biodiversity loss show that the human–nature relationship is failing. This paper introduces the psychological construct of nature connectedness as a measurable target for improving the human–nature relationship, and therefore helping tackle the warming climate and loss of wildlife. The ‘pathways to nature connectedness’ (sensory contact, emotion, meaning, beauty and compassion) provide an important and flexible…
Reinterpreting urban institutions for sustainability: How epistemic networks shape knowledge and logics
From 'me towns' to 'we towns: Activist citizenship in UK town centres
Britain’s town centres have witnessed economic, social and physical upheaval over more than half a century, linked to sweeping changes in retailing and consumption. Yet they are also places where activists are seeking to fashion alternative futures and test social and economic models that challenge neoliberal norms. Reflecting on recent developments in the UK, this paper explores the potential of citizen-led economic activism in British town and …
Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and UsePatton, M. Q. (2011). New York: Guilford Press; vii–375
The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing
Reinterpreting urban institutions for sustainability: How epistemic networks shape knowledge and logics
Known but not done: How logics of inaction limit the benefits of urban green spaces
Empirical research has long shown positive connections between urban green spaces and their users’ wellbeing. But compelling evidence does not always lead to appropriate investment. In a study of the contribution of urban nature to mental wellbeing in Sheffield, UK, the authors identified greenspace investments that could lead to improved wellbeing and discussed their implementation with local stakeholders. However, this qualitative study also re…
Wellbeing and blue-green space in post-pandemic cities: Drivers, debates and departures
Covid-19 has focused attention on the importance of urban green and blue spaces (such as parks and watercourses) for human wellbeing. Less attention has been devoted to how those spaces might contribute to a wider rethinking of relations between humans and the more-than-human world in post-pandemic cities. This article outlines how Covid-19 opens up a broader debate about the future of urban green spaces, especially in the global North, but highl…
Path Clearing, Policy Acceleration or Trend Reinforcement: Potential Implications of Selected Local Government Responses to Covid-19 in the UK
Since its onset in 2020 Covid-19 impacts have engendered rapid interventions across all policy domains and at all scales of government. This has prompted lively debate around the wider significance and longer-term implications of such moves with regard to their role as potential 'punctuations' within a broader policy paradigm shift. This includes acting as a ‘path-clearing’ mechanism that heralds a move towards a different approach; representing …
From 'me towns' to 'we towns: Activist citizenship in UK town centres
Britain’s town centres have witnessed economic, social and physical upheaval over more than half a century, linked to sweeping changes in retailing and consumption. Yet they are also places where activists are seeking to fashion alternative futures and test social and economic models that challenge neoliberal norms. Reflecting on recent developments in the UK, this paper explores the potential of citizen-led economic activism in British town and …
Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and UsePatton, M. Q. (2011). New York: Guilford Press; vii–375
From 'me towns' to 'we towns: Activist citizenship in UK town centres
Britain’s town centres have witnessed economic, social and physical upheaval over more than half a century, linked to sweeping changes in retailing and consumption. Yet they are also places where activists are seeking to fashion alternative futures and test social and economic models that challenge neoliberal norms. Reflecting on recent developments in the UK, this paper explores the potential of citizen-led economic activism in British town and …
Reinterpreting urban institutions for sustainability: How epistemic networks shape knowledge and logics
Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale: A leverage points perspective
The climate emergency and crisis of biodiversity loss show that the human–nature relationship is failing. This paper introduces the psychological construct of nature connectedness as a measurable target for improving the human–nature relationship, and therefore helping tackle the warming climate and loss of wildlife. The ‘pathways to nature connectedness’ (sensory contact, emotion, meaning, beauty and compassion) provide an important and flexible…
Planning for sociable green spaces after Covid-19
Parks and green spaces have been thrust into the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic In a strange way, academics were initially cheered by the national calls for parks to remain open Parks and green spaces were highlighted as one of only a few destinations that people in lockdown in the UK were allowed to visit That sounded like a description of an essential service Academia and policy makers have long known about the social benefits of parks …
Invisible Illness and Measurability
How many people throughout history suffered from my disease and others like it but went untreated? This question is made more pressing by the knowledge that even though the disease was discovered in 2007, some doctors I spoke to believe that it's been around at least as long as humanity has
The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing
Known but not done: How logics of inaction limit the benefits of urban green spaces
Empirical research has long shown positive connections between urban green spaces and their users’ wellbeing. But compelling evidence does not always lead to appropriate investment. In a study of the contribution of urban nature to mental wellbeing in Sheffield, UK, the authors identified greenspace investments that could lead to improved wellbeing and discussed their implementation with local stakeholders. However, this qualitative study also re…
Wellbeing and blue-green space in post-pandemic cities: Drivers, debates and departures
Covid-19 has focused attention on the importance of urban green and blue spaces (such as parks and watercourses) for human wellbeing. Less attention has been devoted to how those spaces might contribute to a wider rethinking of relations between humans and the more-than-human world in post-pandemic cities. This article outlines how Covid-19 opens up a broader debate about the future of urban green spaces, especially in the global North, but highl…
Boosterism and belonging: ‘Pride in Place’ and the Levelling-Up Agenda
Path Clearing, Policy Acceleration or Trend Reinforcement: Potential Implications of Selected Local Government Responses to Covid-19 in the UK
Since its onset in 2020 Covid-19 impacts have engendered rapid interventions across all policy domains and at all scales of government. This has prompted lively debate around the wider significance and longer-term implications of such moves with regard to their role as potential 'punctuations' within a broader policy paradigm shift. This includes acting as a ‘path-clearing’ mechanism that heralds a move towards a different approach; representing …
Incidence Rates of Covid-19-Associated Hospitalization and Risk Factors for Severe Disease Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons in the Southwest USA and Alaska
Resourcing universities to increase their civic impact: Meeting challenges of communication, complexity and commitment
The 21st century has witnessed an increasing focus on universities’ civic role and their impacts on the social and economic wellbeing of their communities. Recent work in the UK has emphasised the multifaceted character of universities' potential impacts in a context of global and local challenges, but also the persistent difficulties they face in realising such potential at a time when universities’ own financial position is increasingly precari…
Using WELLBYs to demonstrate the social value of social prescribing at a national level: Evidence from Green Social Prescribing in England
People, Place and Policy is an online journal providing a forum for academic debate around issues of urban policy, social and economic regeneration, housing and the labour market. Articles deal with the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate the opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society
Environmental wellbeing: A concept and principles for research, policy and action
Environmental wellbeing is often referred to in academic literature but seldom defined. This article provides two contributions to knowledge: (1) developing an integrated concept of environmental wellbeing, positioning it as a locally situated counterpart to notions of “planetary health” and “human wellbeing”, and (2) outlining practical principles for its operationalisation. Building on concepts of environmental justice, this article begins with…
Civic Geographies of Care: Mapping the Scope and Scales of Universities' Civic Action
This article presents empirical evidence from the UK to explore where ‘civic geographies’ emerge and how they are enacted. Responding to Jenkins and Blunt's call in Area for ‘geography as a discipline to revisit its civic scope and ambition’ in the context of universities' civic engagement, it draws on scholarship on care ethics and evidence from recent research with civic universities in England to propose that institutional place‐based civic ac…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (4 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (3 works)