Dr Charlotte Wendelboe-Nelson
Charlotte is an OPENspace Research Associate based at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is currently working on GroundsWell, and was previously a researcher on the “Thriving Green Spaces” project. Charlotte was previously based at Heriot-Watt University working on green space and associated co-exposures and their combined effect on health and well-being.
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Dr Scott Ogletree
Scott Ogletree is a Lecturer in Landscape and Wellbeing in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), having previously joined OPENspace as a Research Fellow in June 2021. His research focuses on the relationship between society and the natural environment. Scott works within two projects at OPENspace, “Woods In and Around Town” (WIAT2) – looking at the impact of woodlands on mental health and child development, and GroundsWell – helping gather and manage data for green and blue space interventions.
Dr Antonio Ross-Perez
Antonio is an OPENspace research associate working on the Groundswell and WIAT2 projects. He is based at Edinburgh College of Art, within the University of Edinburgh. He recently completed his PhD, which investigated the use of passively collected data from bike-sharing systems to build an agent-based model that looks into the impacts of bike deployment strategies.
Dr Karen Berry
Karen is an OPENspace Research Fellow based across Edinburgh College of Art and the Advanced Care Research Centre at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. She is currently working on Personal Projects as part of the Understanding People in Place ACRC work package 4. Karen is a health services researcher and clinician by background looking particularly at intervention development and feasibility testing in the NHS setting.
Prof Jenny Roe
Jenny Roe is Professor and Director of the Center for Design & Health in the School of Architecture, University of Virginia. An environmental psychologist and former head of Landscape Architecture for an international architectural practice, she writes, lectures, and consults for a wide range of academic and public audiences on human health-centered design for the built environment. She is an expert in restorative environments that support mental health including an important role for public parks and urban green space. Her book on this subject, Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing (Roe and McCay, 2021) explores a new way of designing cities that puts mental health at the forefront. She holds an Honorary Professorship in the Urban Institute, Heriot Watt University; she is an Affiliated Researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute and Honorary OPENspace Research Fellow.
Professor Emeritus Peter Aspinall
Peter was an Associate Director at OPENspace for many years after its foundation. He was an Honorary Fellow in Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. He was also Emeritus Professor of Environmental Studies at Heriot-Watt University. Peter died in 2024.