health

January 24, 2024

Call the Midwife was first aired by the BBC in 2012 and is now into its thirteenth series. The narrative arc of each episode may be predictable, but the female-centred storylines remain compelling and something of a rarity. Not to mention the bicycles used for home visits.  Set in East London’s Poplar district, the programme

January 15, 2024

Last year, colleagues from Highgate Cemetery joined the Healthy Parks and Green Space Network I jointly run with Gemma Moore and Liza Griffin from UCL’s Bartlett Faculty. The Cemetery team also generously hosted our first in-person meeting, in one of their chapels. We organised a “green walk” to this from Archway station to help participants

June 1, 2022

One of the joys of working on the Parks for Health project (and there were many) was feeling part of a team. The respect for each other of the Camden and Islington green spaces officers, their public health colleagues and partners from the VCSE and health sectors was manifest from the outset. Partly this was