Sarah L Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 257373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah L Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0638-9454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 326 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
A Case of Epistemic Injustice: Prioritising Disability Knowledges in Climate Adaptation
Climate change poses major risks to life and livelihoods worldwide, acting as a threat multiplier through compounding and creating new forms of social inequality. Disabled people—including an estimated 16% of the global population—are disproportionately impacted by these risks, in part through the impacts of different impairments and the association with wider disadvantage, and also through eco‐ableism; the failure to consider disabled people's n…
Being disabled is a radicalising experience: From Eco-Ableism to Solidarity in Climate Activism
An overview image of the Sensing Climate mural in Bristol, edited for clarity here as it wraps around an existing mural on the same wall. A full image description can be found online: https://sensing-climate.com/news/sensing-climate-mural-bristol-june-2024. Image credit: Mark Simmons. • Insights from disabled people remain largely overlooked within climate activism. • Using creative research, we foreground the perspectives of disabled people. • C…
Between a rock and a hard place: Exploring the lived experience of disability and climate injustice
This paper examines disability and climate injustice among rural livelihoods in Kenya and Uganda, foregrounding the importance of understanding, respecting and embedding the lived experiences of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in climate adaptation practice. Previous studies have highlighted the need to approach transformative adaptation through interventions that address the unjust knowledge and power relations that create vulnerability. Social…
A qualitative exploration of the contribution of blue space to well‐being in the lives of people with severe mental illness
The majority of research into the mental health benefits of blue space (outdoor places where water is a central feature) has focussed on the associations between neighbourhood exposure to these spaces and population‐level incidence of unipolar depression or anxiety disorder. There has been little exploration of the therapeutic use of blue space by those navigating bipolar, schizophrenia or other psychotic conditions. Knowledge arising from such a…
Beyond the Single Story of Climate Vulnerability: Centring Disabled People and Their Knowledges in “Care-Full” Climate Action
Health. Disability. Vulnerability. These words are often used when discussing the risks of climate disruption. These discussions warn of the potential for climate impacts to “undermine 50 years of gains in public health” (as stated by the Lancet Countdown on Climate Change). Increasingly, such discussions also acknowledge climate injustice, examining who will benefit or lose out from climate change, how and why. The embodied vulnerability of disa…
Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research
Graphic elicitation, an arts‐based method that focuses on participant‐led drawing activities, is often conducted with the researcher in situ and discussed in an interview setting, either during or after drawing. However, the COVID‐19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns have meant that using graphic elicitation in its current form required a re‐evaluation. Reflecting on a research project that undertook graphic elicitation remotely, this paper c…
Supporting ‘blue care’ through outdoor water-based activities: Practitioner perspectives
There is growing research into the links between blue space encounters, human health and wellbeing, and increasing interest in prescribing nature-based activities to promote physical activity, enhanced mental health and social wellbeing. However, less clear is the readiness of community-based organisations to be involved in these prescription pathways. The aim of this study was to examine perspectives of outdoor water-based practitioners concerni…
Healthy Mobilities
In this article, we articulate a distinct conceptual direction at the intersection of health and mobilities scholarship that centers on healthy mobilities. We take inspiration from relational, multiscalar, and more-than-human approaches to foreground an approach that asks what being in everyday healthy motion may entail and whose health is considered. We trace this approach through two brief provocations: exercise and differential mobilities, inc…
Never mind the bullocks: Animating the Go-Along Interview Through Creative Nonfiction
Recent years have seen increasing enthusiasm for the use of go-along interviews to attend to the fleeting, more-than-human relational encounters that co-constitute people’s everyday experiences of health and wellbeing. Go-alongs are an approach to qualitative fieldwork in which research participants literally walk (or drive, swim, wheel, kayak and so forth) the researcher through their place experiences. While such approaches have wide-ranging ad…
A(nother) time for nature? Situating non-human nature experiences within the emotional transitions of sight loss
Nurturing sociality with birdlife in the context of life with sight impairment: A Role for Nonhuman Charisma
This is the final version. Available on open access from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Segregation and the Sea: Toward a Critical Understanding of Race and Coastal Blue Space in Greater Miami
There is a growing body of research signaling the health and wellbeing benefits of being in blue space. Here, we advance this intellectual agenda by critically examining perceptions and experiences of coastal blue space among residents of a disadvantaged, predominantly African American community who report limited engagement with their local coastal blue space, despite beachgoing being considered mainstream by a previous generation. Drawing on fo…
Disciplined research in undisciplined settings”: Critical explorations of in situ and mobile methodologies in geographies of health and wellbeing
In situ and mobile methodologies are increasingly popular within research into diverse geographies of health and wellbeing. These methodologies include data‐gathering techniques and modes of analysis carried out with research participants as they experience and move through settings with the potential to shape both momentary and longer‐term experiences of health and wellbeing. This methodological development is both a response to and reflection o…
Seeking a disability lens within climate change migration discourses, policies and practices
Around 15% of the global population is estimated to live with disability. With the Millennium Development Goals failing to recognise disability issues, the Sustainable Development Goals seek to promote a stronger focus on the alleviation of poverty and inequality amongst disabled people. Since then, the vulnerability of disabled people has been highlighted within international climate change agreements. Yet a critical disability lens is largely l…
Negotiating nature's weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment
We have seen longstanding research interest in diverse nature–society relations, including contentious debates regarding what nature is, the role of humans within or apart from it, and how varied types of non‐human nature shape different societies and individuals within society. Within this work, relatively little attention has been paid to an important aspect of nature experienced everyday: people's “weather‐worlds.” These encompass the qualitie…
The "healthy dose" of nature: A cautionary tale
Growing cross-disciplinary interest in understanding if, how, and why time spent with nature can contribute to human health and well-being has recently prompted efforts to identify an ideal healthy dose of nature; exposure to a specific type of nature at a specified frequency and duration. These efforts build on longstanding attempts to prescribe nature in some way, most recently in the form of so-called "green prescriptions." In this critical di…
Experiencing nature with sight impairment: Seeking freedom from ableism
The idea of nature as freedom has long captured the human imagination, particularly since the Romantic era when notions of escapism were underpinned by the idealisation and externalisation of nature. The drive for freedom persists in the findings of much contemporary research examining the contribution of nature to human health and wellbeing. Yet, this work tells us little about how cultural narratives of freedom play out in the lives of people l…
Hopeful adaptation' in health geographies: Seeking health and wellbeing in times of adversity
Living with adversity can create wide-ranging challenges for people's health and wellbeing. This adversity may arise through personal embodied difference (e.g. acquiring a brain injury or losing mobility in older age) as well as wider structural relations that shape a person's capacity to adapt. A number of dichotomies have dominated our understanding of how people engage with health and wellbeing practices in their lives, from classifying behavi…
"Beyond "Move More: Feeling the Rhythms of physical activity in mid and later-life
The last two decades have seen growing unease regarding the negative health consequences of increasing levels of physical inactivity, both in the UK and further afield. Public health initiatives and interventions aimed at increasing levels of physical activity have, therefore, become somewhat commonplace. Within the current context of demographic change, with growing numbers of older adults and evidence that inactivity increases with age, these i…
Who doesn’t visit natural environments for recreation and why: A population representative analysis of spatial, individual and temporal factors among adults in England
From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices: A scoping review
Everyday green space and experienced well-being: The significance of wildlife encounters
A broad and growing evidence base suggests the potential for time spent in natural environments to promote human health and well-being. Whilst evidence of such benefits is rapidly accumulating, we still know relatively little about the role of wildlife encounters in shaping the well-being potential of people’s routine green/blue space interactions, particularly amongst non-specialists. This article addresses this conceptual gap, drawing on the fi…
Exploring potential mechanisms involved in the relationship between eudaimonic wellbeing and nature connection
Lessons from a peer-led obesity prevention programme in English schools
Obesity in young people is a major public health concern. Energy balance, the interrelationship between diet and physical activity, is known to be a key determinant. Evidence supports the development of school-based approaches to obesity prevention. ASSIST (A Stop Smoking in Schools Trial) is an effective school-based, peer-led smoking prevention programme for 12-13-year-old students, based on diffusion of innovations theory. The AHEAD (Activity …
The role of fluctuating soundscapes in shaping the emotional geographies of individuals living with Ménière's disease
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Seeking everyday wellbeing: The coast as a therapeutic landscape
Recent research suggests coastal environments may promote human health and wellbeing. This article explores the diverse coastal experiences sought out by residents of two towns in south west England to promote and preserve their personal wellbeing in the context of their everyday lives. It draws on the findings of an in-depth interpretive study conducted from May to November 2013 that examined the relative contribution of varied green and blue sp…
"Beyond "Move More: Feeling the Rhythms of physical activity in mid and later-life
The last two decades have seen growing unease regarding the negative health consequences of increasing levels of physical inactivity, both in the UK and further afield. Public health initiatives and interventions aimed at increasing levels of physical activity have, therefore, become somewhat commonplace. Within the current context of demographic change, with growing numbers of older adults and evidence that inactivity increases with age, these i…
Using Geonarratives to Explore the Diverse Temporalities of Therapeutic Landscapes: Perspectives from "Green" and "Blue" Settings
A growing evidence base highlights “green” and “blue” spaces as examples of “therapeutic landscapes” incorporated into people's lives to maintain a sense of well-being. A commonly overlooked dimension within this corpus of work concerns the dynamic nature of people's therapeutic place assemblages over time. This article provides these novel temporal perspectives, drawing on the findings of an innovative three-stage interpretive geonarrative study…
Experiencing nature with sight impairment: Seeking freedom from ableism
The idea of nature as freedom has long captured the human imagination, particularly since the Romantic era when notions of escapism were underpinned by the idealisation and externalisation of nature. The drive for freedom persists in the findings of much contemporary research examining the contribution of nature to human health and wellbeing. Yet, this work tells us little about how cultural narratives of freedom play out in the lives of people l…
Using GPS and geo‐narratives: A methodological approach for understanding and situating everyday green space encounters
This methods paper contributes to the recent proliferation of methodological innovation aimed at nurturing research encounters and exchanges that facilitate in‐depth insights into people's everyday practices and routine place encounters. By drawing on the experiences of an interpretive study seeking to situate people's green space wellbeing practices within their daily lives, we suggest value in using personalised maps – produced using participan…
Ménière's disease and biographical disruption: Where family transitions collide
The "healthy dose" of nature: A cautionary tale
Growing cross-disciplinary interest in understanding if, how, and why time spent with nature can contribute to human health and well-being has recently prompted efforts to identify an ideal healthy dose of nature; exposure to a specific type of nature at a specified frequency and duration. These efforts build on longstanding attempts to prescribe nature in some way, most recently in the form of so-called "green prescriptions." In this critical di…
Negotiating nature's weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment
We have seen longstanding research interest in diverse nature–society relations, including contentious debates regarding what nature is, the role of humans within or apart from it, and how varied types of non‐human nature shape different societies and individuals within society. Within this work, relatively little attention has been paid to an important aspect of nature experienced everyday: people's “weather‐worlds.” These encompass the qualitie…
Hopeful adaptation' in health geographies: Seeking health and wellbeing in times of adversity
Living with adversity can create wide-ranging challenges for people's health and wellbeing. This adversity may arise through personal embodied difference (e.g. acquiring a brain injury or losing mobility in older age) as well as wider structural relations that shape a person's capacity to adapt. A number of dichotomies have dominated our understanding of how people engage with health and wellbeing practices in their lives, from classifying behavi…
Everyday green space and experienced well-being: The significance of wildlife encounters
A broad and growing evidence base suggests the potential for time spent in natural environments to promote human health and well-being. Whilst evidence of such benefits is rapidly accumulating, we still know relatively little about the role of wildlife encounters in shaping the well-being potential of people’s routine green/blue space interactions, particularly amongst non-specialists. This article addresses this conceptual gap, drawing on the fi…
The role of fluctuating soundscapes in shaping the emotional geographies of individuals living with Ménière's disease
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Segregation and the Sea: Toward a Critical Understanding of Race and Coastal Blue Space in Greater Miami
There is a growing body of research signaling the health and wellbeing benefits of being in blue space. Here, we advance this intellectual agenda by critically examining perceptions and experiences of coastal blue space among residents of a disadvantaged, predominantly African American community who report limited engagement with their local coastal blue space, despite beachgoing being considered mainstream by a previous generation. Drawing on fo…
Disciplined research in undisciplined settings”: Critical explorations of in situ and mobile methodologies in geographies of health and wellbeing
In situ and mobile methodologies are increasingly popular within research into diverse geographies of health and wellbeing. These methodologies include data‐gathering techniques and modes of analysis carried out with research participants as they experience and move through settings with the potential to shape both momentary and longer‐term experiences of health and wellbeing. This methodological development is both a response to and reflection o…
Seeking a disability lens within climate change migration discourses, policies and practices
Around 15% of the global population is estimated to live with disability. With the Millennium Development Goals failing to recognise disability issues, the Sustainable Development Goals seek to promote a stronger focus on the alleviation of poverty and inequality amongst disabled people. Since then, the vulnerability of disabled people has been highlighted within international climate change agreements. Yet a critical disability lens is largely l…
Nurturing sociality with birdlife in the context of life with sight impairment: A Role for Nonhuman Charisma
This is the final version. Available on open access from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
A day in the life of a Ménière's patient: Understanding the lived experiences and mental health impacts of Ménière's disease
Concepts of social practice are increasingly being used to understand experiences of everyday life, particularly in relation to consumption and healthy lifestyles. This article builds on this in the context of lives disrupted and reshaped by chronic illness. It uses social practice theory to examine the lived experiences of individuals with Ménière's disease; a long-term progressive vestibular disorder, defined by episodes of severe and debilitat…
Never mind the bullocks: Animating the Go-Along Interview Through Creative Nonfiction
Recent years have seen increasing enthusiasm for the use of go-along interviews to attend to the fleeting, more-than-human relational encounters that co-constitute people’s everyday experiences of health and wellbeing. Go-alongs are an approach to qualitative fieldwork in which research participants literally walk (or drive, swim, wheel, kayak and so forth) the researcher through their place experiences. While such approaches have wide-ranging ad…
A(nother) time for nature? Situating non-human nature experiences within the emotional transitions of sight loss
Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research
Graphic elicitation, an arts‐based method that focuses on participant‐led drawing activities, is often conducted with the researcher in situ and discussed in an interview setting, either during or after drawing. However, the COVID‐19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns have meant that using graphic elicitation in its current form required a re‐evaluation. Reflecting on a research project that undertook graphic elicitation remotely, this paper c…
Beyond the Single Story of Climate Vulnerability: Centring Disabled People and Their Knowledges in “Care-Full” Climate Action
Health. Disability. Vulnerability. These words are often used when discussing the risks of climate disruption. These discussions warn of the potential for climate impacts to “undermine 50 years of gains in public health” (as stated by the Lancet Countdown on Climate Change). Increasingly, such discussions also acknowledge climate injustice, examining who will benefit or lose out from climate change, how and why. The embodied vulnerability of disa…
Two unannounced environmental tax reforms in the UK: The fuel duty escalator and income tax in the 1990s
Green space, health and wellbeing: Making space for individual agency
Using GPS and geo‐narratives: A methodological approach for understanding and situating everyday green space encounters
This methods paper contributes to the recent proliferation of methodological innovation aimed at nurturing research encounters and exchanges that facilitate in‐depth insights into people's everyday practices and routine place encounters. By drawing on the experiences of an interpretive study seeking to situate people's green space wellbeing practices within their daily lives, we suggest value in using personalised maps – produced using participan…
Seeking everyday wellbeing: The coast as a therapeutic landscape
Recent research suggests coastal environments may promote human health and wellbeing. This article explores the diverse coastal experiences sought out by residents of two towns in south west England to promote and preserve their personal wellbeing in the context of their everyday lives. It draws on the findings of an in-depth interpretive study conducted from May to November 2013 that examined the relative contribution of varied green and blue sp…
Ménière's disease and biographical disruption: Where family transitions collide
Exploring potential mechanisms involved in the relationship between eudaimonic wellbeing and nature connection
Lessons from a peer-led obesity prevention programme in English schools
Obesity in young people is a major public health concern. Energy balance, the interrelationship between diet and physical activity, is known to be a key determinant. Evidence supports the development of school-based approaches to obesity prevention. ASSIST (A Stop Smoking in Schools Trial) is an effective school-based, peer-led smoking prevention programme for 12-13-year-old students, based on diffusion of innovations theory. The AHEAD (Activity …
The role of fluctuating soundscapes in shaping the emotional geographies of individuals living with Ménière's disease
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Using Geonarratives to Explore the Diverse Temporalities of Therapeutic Landscapes: Perspectives from "Green" and "Blue" Settings
A growing evidence base highlights “green” and “blue” spaces as examples of “therapeutic landscapes” incorporated into people's lives to maintain a sense of well-being. A commonly overlooked dimension within this corpus of work concerns the dynamic nature of people's therapeutic place assemblages over time. This article provides these novel temporal perspectives, drawing on the findings of an innovative three-stage interpretive geonarrative study…
A day in the life of a Ménière's patient: Understanding the lived experiences and mental health impacts of Ménière's disease
Concepts of social practice are increasingly being used to understand experiences of everyday life, particularly in relation to consumption and healthy lifestyles. This article builds on this in the context of lives disrupted and reshaped by chronic illness. It uses social practice theory to examine the lived experiences of individuals with Ménière's disease; a long-term progressive vestibular disorder, defined by episodes of severe and debilitat…
Who doesn’t visit natural environments for recreation and why: A population representative analysis of spatial, individual and temporal factors among adults in England
From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices: A scoping review
Everyday green space and experienced well-being: The significance of wildlife encounters
A broad and growing evidence base suggests the potential for time spent in natural environments to promote human health and well-being. Whilst evidence of such benefits is rapidly accumulating, we still know relatively little about the role of wildlife encounters in shaping the well-being potential of people’s routine green/blue space interactions, particularly amongst non-specialists. This article addresses this conceptual gap, drawing on the fi…
Seeking a disability lens within climate change migration discourses, policies and practices
Around 15% of the global population is estimated to live with disability. With the Millennium Development Goals failing to recognise disability issues, the Sustainable Development Goals seek to promote a stronger focus on the alleviation of poverty and inequality amongst disabled people. Since then, the vulnerability of disabled people has been highlighted within international climate change agreements. Yet a critical disability lens is largely l…
Negotiating nature's weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment
We have seen longstanding research interest in diverse nature–society relations, including contentious debates regarding what nature is, the role of humans within or apart from it, and how varied types of non‐human nature shape different societies and individuals within society. Within this work, relatively little attention has been paid to an important aspect of nature experienced everyday: people's “weather‐worlds.” These encompass the qualitie…
The "healthy dose" of nature: A cautionary tale
Growing cross-disciplinary interest in understanding if, how, and why time spent with nature can contribute to human health and well-being has recently prompted efforts to identify an ideal healthy dose of nature; exposure to a specific type of nature at a specified frequency and duration. These efforts build on longstanding attempts to prescribe nature in some way, most recently in the form of so-called "green prescriptions." In this critical di…
Experiencing nature with sight impairment: Seeking freedom from ableism
The idea of nature as freedom has long captured the human imagination, particularly since the Romantic era when notions of escapism were underpinned by the idealisation and externalisation of nature. The drive for freedom persists in the findings of much contemporary research examining the contribution of nature to human health and wellbeing. Yet, this work tells us little about how cultural narratives of freedom play out in the lives of people l…
Hopeful adaptation' in health geographies: Seeking health and wellbeing in times of adversity
Living with adversity can create wide-ranging challenges for people's health and wellbeing. This adversity may arise through personal embodied difference (e.g. acquiring a brain injury or losing mobility in older age) as well as wider structural relations that shape a person's capacity to adapt. A number of dichotomies have dominated our understanding of how people engage with health and wellbeing practices in their lives, from classifying behavi…
"Beyond "Move More: Feeling the Rhythms of physical activity in mid and later-life
The last two decades have seen growing unease regarding the negative health consequences of increasing levels of physical inactivity, both in the UK and further afield. Public health initiatives and interventions aimed at increasing levels of physical activity have, therefore, become somewhat commonplace. Within the current context of demographic change, with growing numbers of older adults and evidence that inactivity increases with age, these i…
Disciplined research in undisciplined settings”: Critical explorations of in situ and mobile methodologies in geographies of health and wellbeing
In situ and mobile methodologies are increasingly popular within research into diverse geographies of health and wellbeing. These methodologies include data‐gathering techniques and modes of analysis carried out with research participants as they experience and move through settings with the potential to shape both momentary and longer‐term experiences of health and wellbeing. This methodological development is both a response to and reflection o…
Healthy Mobilities
In this article, we articulate a distinct conceptual direction at the intersection of health and mobilities scholarship that centers on healthy mobilities. We take inspiration from relational, multiscalar, and more-than-human approaches to foreground an approach that asks what being in everyday healthy motion may entail and whose health is considered. We trace this approach through two brief provocations: exercise and differential mobilities, inc…
Never mind the bullocks: Animating the Go-Along Interview Through Creative Nonfiction
Recent years have seen increasing enthusiasm for the use of go-along interviews to attend to the fleeting, more-than-human relational encounters that co-constitute people’s everyday experiences of health and wellbeing. Go-alongs are an approach to qualitative fieldwork in which research participants literally walk (or drive, swim, wheel, kayak and so forth) the researcher through their place experiences. While such approaches have wide-ranging ad…
A(nother) time for nature? Situating non-human nature experiences within the emotional transitions of sight loss
Nurturing sociality with birdlife in the context of life with sight impairment: A Role for Nonhuman Charisma
This is the final version. Available on open access from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Segregation and the Sea: Toward a Critical Understanding of Race and Coastal Blue Space in Greater Miami
There is a growing body of research signaling the health and wellbeing benefits of being in blue space. Here, we advance this intellectual agenda by critically examining perceptions and experiences of coastal blue space among residents of a disadvantaged, predominantly African American community who report limited engagement with their local coastal blue space, despite beachgoing being considered mainstream by a previous generation. Drawing on fo…
Sociology (22 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Social science (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works)