Crumbling, dusty, ugly – and valuable
This post on Scottish Pollinators (20 February 2024) explores and celebrates the value of neglected and brownfield sites for nature.
Churchill Fellowships now open to applications!
Churchill Fellowships are open to all UK adult citizens, regardless of background, qualifications or age. Churchill Fellowships are looking for people with the passion and potential to make a real difference, from every part of society. A range of eligible Programmes include: Caring for our natural environment Climate change Education [...]
LTL Outdoor Learning and Play Training
LTL aim to create training courses to help embed outdoor learning and play in all early years and school settings. Take a look at their training courses, offering in-person and online courses, and events.
How environment shapes the foundations of healthy development
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2023). Place Matters: The Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development: Working Paper No. 16. This working paper (Center of the Developing Child, Harvard University) examines how the built and natural environments - and the systemic factors that shape those environments [...]
The perfect pairing: Youth development and nature connection
Read this article by Monica Lopez Magee in Finding Nature News, Children & Nature Network (June 2023) The author reflects on research supporting this approach and describes how ‘the benefits of the two do not happen by chance. It takes intentional inclusion of each to achieve maximum impact.’
Making Places for Outdoor Learning Short Course
Queen Margaret University is offering this Outdoor Learning Short Course, starting March 2023, under its short course provision options. This is a Masters level module with some free places still available. This course is primarily for leaders and practitioners working in the third sector. The QMU Admissions team will accept [...]
A review of Nature-Based Early Childhood Education and Children’s Social, Emotional and Cognitive Development
Nature-based early childhood education and children's social, emotional and cognitive development: A mixed methods systematic review has been published 13 May 2022 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. It has been shared by Shared by MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. The [...]
Trees better than grass in supporting early childhood development
Greenspace Scotland May 2022 bulletin research news shares a Canadian study This found that vegetated land cover exposure was positively associated with childhood development. Positive associations were stronger for tree cover relative to grass cover, and exposure to paved land cover was negatively associated with childhood development. Researchers conclude findings [...]
