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Walking with Mother Nature: Mental Health Benefits of Regular Nature Walks for Women and Implications for Female Post-Secondary Students
Full text linkToday’s crisis in women’s mental health has ignited an interest in evidence-based practices for improving mental health, such as nature walks. However, further research is needed on women’s lived experiences while walking in nature. The purpose of this research was to explore a woman’s nature walk experiences and their perceived impact on her mental health. In this hermeneutic phenomenological study, a female participant’s nature walk experiences and the meaning they are given were unraveled. Sampling was purposeful and data were collected by through a phenomenological interview. Interpretative phenomenological analyses revealed that nature walks offer numerous mental health benefits, including greater happiness, serenity, mindfulness, awe, gratitude to nature, problem-solving, and creativity, as well as reduced negative affect and stress. Findings provide novel insights into the mechanisms underlying the relationship between nature walks and women’s mental health. Results are discussed in relation to extant mental health, ecotherapy, and positive education research
Le silence après le départ : quand les patients partent, mais que leurs histoires demeurent
Full text linkS’attaquer aux préjudices institutionnels dans les environnements favorables à la santé
Full text linkA Critical Ethnography of an Outdoor School: Reimagining the Relationship between Science Education and Climate Change Politics
No full textOn the double covers of a line graph.
No full textLet be the line graph of graph . Let be the Kronecker product of by . In this paper, we see that is a double cover of . We define the symmetric edge graph of , denoted as which is also a double cover of . We study various properties of in relation to and the relationship amongst the three double covers of that are and . With the help of these double covers, we show that for any integer , there exist two equienergetic graphs of order that are not cospectral
Are place-based approaches to reducing health inequalities a highway to success or a policy dead-end?
Full text linkPlace-based approaches to reducing health inequalities have become increasingly common in the UK. It is likely that this is because area deprivation indices have highlighted spatial areas, rather than social groups, for policy focus; and because local agencies have until recently at least had a greater policy focus on reducing health inequalities than national government. Place-based approaches at the neighbourhood level have been characterised by a combination of civic-level, community-centred, and service-based interventions. We identify several important factors that limit their effectiveness for reducing health inequalities, including: socioeconomic and power relationships that are unrestricted by spatial boundaries; most disadvantaged individuals not living in areas with the highest deprivation scores; a pre-existing gradient in community capacity which many community development approaches exacerbate; stigmatisation of areas with high deprivation scores; and the potential for partnership approaches to undermine genuine community-led organisation and challenge. We argue that for place-based approaches to be successful in reducing health inequalities, they must challenge economic and power relationships that exacerbate inequalities and catalyse emancipation of currently disempowered and alienated communities.
Reconstructing the Past: Bridging Deep History and Modernity for a Resilient Planet
Full text linkThis paper presents the critical roles of exploring deep-time human ecological histories to inform modern climate resilience and sustainability efforts. Building on existing data from paleoanthropological contexts across East Africa, this ongoing study seeks to demonstrate how our knowledge of long-term patterns of human ecological flexibility, innovation, and survival under intense and recurrent environmental changes offers insights for navigating modern climate crises. This paper advocates for the integration of Indigenous ecological knowledge with scientific enquiries
Challenges and Supports Experienced by Students Completing a Multi-Semester Capstone Undergraduate Research Experience: Reflections from Program Graduates
Full text linkUndergraduate research experiences (UREs) have been recognized as high-impact teaching practices in post-secondary science education programs. The variety of structures and strategies to facilitate UREs provide institutions and faculty with many options to foster students’ exposure to scientific research, particularly in primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs), which often utilize capstone UREs as part of undergraduate science programs. This qualitative research explores graduates’ experiences completing a multi-semester capstone URE while attending a small PUI in the United States. Sixteen recent graduates of STEM undergraduate degrees shared their experience in semi-structured interviews which aimed to identify the perceived challenges and support students experienced during their URE. From a thematic analysis of the data, eight themes emerged that described challenges and supports recognized by students during their UREs. These results, although limited to the participants of our study, detailed students’ challenges related to time investment and unexpected obstacles with research. Several sources of support for students, like peer collaboration, access to research facilities, and faculty mentorship, also emerged from the data. Based on these findings, we offer recommendations to reduce student challenges and create robust support structures for similar capstone UREs
A Systems-Inspired Taxonomy of SoTL Research: Increasing the Accessibility and Visibility of this Heterogeneous Field
Full text linkThe scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a vast, multi-epistemic field which can be challenging for new and experienced scholars to navigate. This paper introduces a systems-inspired taxonomy of SoTL designed to enhance accessibility, visibility, and knowledge organization within the field. Drawing from an iterative and extensive process involving a literature review, thematic coding of published SoTL inquiries from eight different journals, and international community consultations, the resulting taxonomy in its current form has six trees or “dimensions.” These include who is being studied, what aspects of learning are investigated, how learning is supported, where and when studies take place, why students learn, and the inquiry approaches used. The taxonomy serves multiple purposes: providing researchers with a structured way to situate their work, guiding literature and scoping reviews, and improving the discoverability of SoTL studies through more deliberate keyword selection. By adopting a systems-thinking perspective, this taxonomy balances structure with flexibility, offering a navigational tool rather than a rigid classification scheme. It is intended to be descriptive, rather than prescriptive, and should be regularly updated through ongoing community input and engagement in order to ensure it remains reflective of emerging research and practice in the field