R Foley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3805 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Foley |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Foley |
| ASSINATURA | FOLEY R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6550-1410 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 290 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Tracing dementia
Across different disciplines, there has been increasing interest in the relationships between early-stage dementia, place and different forms of treatment. Reminiscence therapy has demonstrated benefits in stalling the progression of dementia, especially in its early-stage, and within such therapies, relationships between place memory and the beneficial triggering effect of place-based events and personal narratives have become important aspects.…
The blue Un/Commons
This discussion provides an introduction to our special issue, The Blue Un/Commons: Tracing new directions in research on outdoor swimming, health and place. This introduction provides a rationale and overview of the social and research contexts the special issue is immersed in, including the growing multi-disciplinary literature on the established health and wellbeing swimming benefits of swimming. Our aim is to extend this 'health and wellbeing…
Voices from the water(s)
“When we were allowed to go back … the freedom, the vista, the delight … It was just magic”
COVID-19 person-place disruptions may dislocate enabling resources and affect the short- and long-term wellbeing of individuals ageing-in-place. However, outcomes may vary according to individuals' personal experiences and capabilities to put in place adaptive strategies. Underpinned by the Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory, this study aimed to identify shifts in older people's relationships to place during the pandemic and to gain a deeper …
A spatial examination of alcohol availability and the level of disadvantage of schools in Ireland
Ireland is considering increasing alcohol availability through the Sale of Alcohol Bill, 2022. However, this analysis indicates already problematic numbers of licenced premises within close proximity of schools in Ireland. It is essential that the harms associated with alcohol availability are considered, especially for those living and attending school in disadvantaged communities, where higher numbers of licenced premises were identified
Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’
Drawing on conceptual and empirical work in geographies of ageing and environmental gerontology, this study's aim is to explore the generation and maintenance of enabling places from the perspective of older community dwellers in the context of COVID‐19. Findings are drawn from a qualitative thematic analysis of written submissions ( n = 17), narrative interviews ( n = 44) and go‐along interviews ( n = 5) with people ageing‐in‐place in Irish comm…
Socio-ecological determinants of older people’s mental health and well-being during Covid-19
Background: Evidence indicates that older people with biological and social vulnerabilities are at high risk of short- and long-term consequences related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, studies have also highlighted that the crisis may present opportunities for personal growth if older individuals are met with appropriate resources and support. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of older people regarding how indivi…
Continuity, change and new ways of being
Farming occupations are, in the Global North, generally solitary, and a growing body of research identifies this as one of the factors that underpins low levels of wellbeing and poor mental health amongst farmers. The primary public health response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic focused on reducing transmission of the virus by limiting interactions of people. This article seeks to assess the impact of these restrictions on fa…
Home and nearby nature
This paper addresses the role of living spaces, neighborhood environments, and access to nearby nature in shaping individual experiences of health and well-being during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key data is drawn from the GreenCOVID study across Spain, England and Ireland. The survey gathered contextual information about home environments, neighborhood spaces, and access to nature elements, and standardized measures of health and w…
Urban Blue Spaces as Therapeutic Landscapes
Urban blue spaces are defined as all natural and manmade surface water in urban environments. This paper draws on how the concepts of experienced, symbolic, social, and activity space combine to position urban blue spaces as therapeutic landscapes. We conducted 203 intercept interviews between 12 October 2019 and 10 November 2019. Although safety concerns had health-limiting impacts, interacting with the Glasgow Canal and surrounding landscape wa…
Health and Wellbeing under Covid-19
Transforming the Fisheries by Patrick Bresnihan
The value of data visualisation
As policy and funding associated with informal/unpaid/family caring develops, more attention has been given to data that support and inform such policy. In particular, evidence around aspects of inequality is often expressed in geographical variations between places in terms of numbers and rates. In general, to date, research on informal caring has focused little on how such variations can be visualised and analysed. This short article looks at t…
A(nother) time for nature? Situating non-human nature experiences within the emotional transitions of sight loss
Blue Spaces as Resources for Health and Wellbeing
There has been an upsurge of recent interest in blue spaces, especially evident in\n\t\t\t\t nature-based research associated with the health and wellbeing potential of oceanic, coastal and inland waters. This paper documents Irish studies that compare indoor and outdoor blue spaces for different user communities and practices. The\n\t\t\t\t studies employ qualitative methodologies including interviews, visual surveys and\n\t\t\t\t go-alongs, to …
Geography and the Covid-19 Crisis in Ireland
In the few short months since the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world had paid more daily attention to maps, charts, rates and locations than ever before; the function and value of a wider geographical imagination, research and education has never been more apparent. Geography and its concerns with place, locations, networks, mobilities and impacts are central to critical reporting on the management, analysis and potential future impacts …
Is a View of Green Spaces from Home Associated with a Lower Risk of Anxiety and Depression
Although a large body of research supports the theory that exposure to nature results in mental health benefits, research evidence on the effects of having a view of green space from home is still scarce. The aim of the present study is to assess the impact that access to a green space view from home has on anxiety and depression. This is a cross-sectional study extracting data from the "2018 Green Spaces, Daily Habits and Urban Health Survey" co…
Disciplined research in undisciplined settings”
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…
Sensing Water
This article considers how different recreational users engage with and utilize blue spaces as health-enabling. Informed by empirical and participatory fieldwork with surfing and sea swimming groups, we explore embodied and emotional experiences while researching directly within blue space. Given a focus on health and well-being, we identify different dimensions of how surfers and swimmers narrate those experiences while directly immersed in wate…
The "healthy dose" of nature
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…
From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices
Swimming as an accretive practice in healthy blue space
One blue’
This paper responds to Winder and Le Heron’s (2017) article on the Blue Economy and starts by acknowledging their laudable attempt to critically examine the terminology and in particular its economic framing. Their articulation of how this can be extended to consider bioeconomic relations, ethics and politics and where geographers play a role in innovative forms of knowledge production is then critically examined. I suggest that the term blue nee…
Introduction
The scope and purpose of the medical humanities have been taking exciting new directions in recent years. The pedagogical roots of the field positioned medical humanities as supplementary to the scientific underpinnings of medicine in bringing humane judgement, insight and resource to the medical practitioner (see But new engagements with a range of critical, cultural and social theories have brought with them new encounters by scholars in the me…
Indigenous Narratives of Health
With the increased acceptance of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) within society, new research reflects deeper folk health histories beyond formal medical spaces. The contested relationships between formal and informal medicine have deep provenance and as scientific medicine began to professionalise in the 19th century, lay health knowledges were simultaneously absorbed and disempowered (Porter 1997). In particular, the 'medical gaze'…
Performing health in place
Blue space geographies
Swimming in Ireland
Sensing Water
This article considers how different recreational users engage with and utilize blue spaces as health-enabling. Informed by empirical and participatory fieldwork with surfing and sea swimming groups, we explore embodied and emotional experiences while researching directly within blue space. Given a focus on health and well-being, we identify different dimensions of how surfers and swimmers narrate those experiences while directly immersed in wate…
The "healthy dose" of nature
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…
The Roman-Irish Bath
Applying geographic information systems to support strategic environmental assessment
Place and provision
Disciplined research in undisciplined settings”
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…
Assessing the applicability of GIS in a health and social care setting
A(nother) time for nature? Situating non-human nature experiences within the emotional transitions of sight loss
Small health pilgrimages
While established pilgrimage sites have extensive literatures, holy wells are less well documented, yet remain significant sites of pilgrimage with healing associations within more localised settings (Rattue 1995). Health geographers describe such settings as therapeutic landscapes where established reputations for healing are central to the production of place (Gesler 2003). Drawing from a sample of holy wells in Ireland, the operation of holy w…
Continuity, change and new ways of being
Farming occupations are, in the Global North, generally solitary, and a growing body of research identifies this as one of the factors that underpins low levels of wellbeing and poor mental health amongst farmers. The primary public health response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic focused on reducing transmission of the virus by limiting interactions of people. This article seeks to assess the impact of these restrictions on fa…
One blue’
This paper responds to Winder and Le Heron’s (2017) article on the Blue Economy and starts by acknowledging their laudable attempt to critically examine the terminology and in particular its economic framing. Their articulation of how this can be extended to consider bioeconomic relations, ethics and politics and where geographers play a role in innovative forms of knowledge production is then critically examined. I suggest that the term blue nee…
Voices from the water(s)
Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’
Drawing on conceptual and empirical work in geographies of ageing and environmental gerontology, this study's aim is to explore the generation and maintenance of enabling places from the perspective of older community dwellers in the context of COVID‐19. Findings are drawn from a qualitative thematic analysis of written submissions ( n = 17), narrative interviews ( n = 44) and go‐along interviews ( n = 5) with people ageing‐in‐place in Irish comm…
Habitual energy expenditure of human climbing and clambering
Despite many studies on the energetics of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial locomotion, little work has been done on the costs of arboreal locomotion. There is increasing interest in modelling the bioenergetics of extinct mammalian species, including hominids, but as early hominids are thought to have combined terrestrial bipedalism with arboreal climbing and clambering, absence of data on the energetics of climbing in higher primates limits work o…
Assessing the applicability of GIS in a health and social care setting
Place and provision
Performing health in place
Applying geographic information systems to support strategic environmental assessment
Small health pilgrimages
While established pilgrimage sites have extensive literatures, holy wells are less well documented, yet remain significant sites of pilgrimage with healing associations within more localised settings (Rattue 1995). Health geographers describe such settings as therapeutic landscapes where established reputations for healing are central to the production of place (Gesler 2003). Drawing from a sample of holy wells in Ireland, the operation of holy w…
The Roman-Irish Bath
Introduction
The scope and purpose of the medical humanities have been taking exciting new directions in recent years. The pedagogical roots of the field positioned medical humanities as supplementary to the scientific underpinnings of medicine in bringing humane judgement, insight and resource to the medical practitioner (see But new engagements with a range of critical, cultural and social theories have brought with them new encounters by scholars in the me…
Indigenous Narratives of Health
With the increased acceptance of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) within society, new research reflects deeper folk health histories beyond formal medical spaces. The contested relationships between formal and informal medicine have deep provenance and as scientific medicine began to professionalise in the 19th century, lay health knowledges were simultaneously absorbed and disempowered (Porter 1997). In particular, the 'medical gaze'…
Blue space geographies
Swimming in Ireland
Swimming as an accretive practice in healthy blue space
One blue’
This paper responds to Winder and Le Heron’s (2017) article on the Blue Economy and starts by acknowledging their laudable attempt to critically examine the terminology and in particular its economic framing. Their articulation of how this can be extended to consider bioeconomic relations, ethics and politics and where geographers play a role in innovative forms of knowledge production is then critically examined. I suggest that the term blue nee…
From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices
The "healthy dose" of nature
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…
Blue Spaces as Resources for Health and Wellbeing
There has been an upsurge of recent interest in blue spaces, especially evident in\n\t\t\t\t nature-based research associated with the health and wellbeing potential of oceanic, coastal and inland waters. This paper documents Irish studies that compare indoor and outdoor blue spaces for different user communities and practices. The\n\t\t\t\t studies employ qualitative methodologies including interviews, visual surveys and\n\t\t\t\t go-alongs, to …
Geography and the Covid-19 Crisis in Ireland
In the few short months since the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world had paid more daily attention to maps, charts, rates and locations than ever before; the function and value of a wider geographical imagination, research and education has never been more apparent. Geography and its concerns with place, locations, networks, mobilities and impacts are central to critical reporting on the management, analysis and potential future impacts …
Is a View of Green Spaces from Home Associated with a Lower Risk of Anxiety and Depression
Although a large body of research supports the theory that exposure to nature results in mental health benefits, research evidence on the effects of having a view of green space from home is still scarce. The aim of the present study is to assess the impact that access to a green space view from home has on anxiety and depression. This is a cross-sectional study extracting data from the "2018 Green Spaces, Daily Habits and Urban Health Survey" co…
Disciplined research in undisciplined settings”
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…
Sensing Water
This article considers how different recreational users engage with and utilize blue spaces as health-enabling. Informed by empirical and participatory fieldwork with surfing and sea swimming groups, we explore embodied and emotional experiences while researching directly within blue space. Given a focus on health and well-being, we identify different dimensions of how surfers and swimmers narrate those experiences while directly immersed in wate…
Health and Wellbeing under Covid-19
Transforming the Fisheries by Patrick Bresnihan
The value of data visualisation
As policy and funding associated with informal/unpaid/family caring develops, more attention has been given to data that support and inform such policy. In particular, evidence around aspects of inequality is often expressed in geographical variations between places in terms of numbers and rates. In general, to date, research on informal caring has focused little on how such variations can be visualised and analysed. This short article looks at t…
A(nother) time for nature? Situating non-human nature experiences within the emotional transitions of sight loss
Home and nearby nature
This paper addresses the role of living spaces, neighborhood environments, and access to nearby nature in shaping individual experiences of health and well-being during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key data is drawn from the GreenCOVID study across Spain, England and Ireland. The survey gathered contextual information about home environments, neighborhood spaces, and access to nature elements, and standardized measures of health and w…
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