
Dr Caroline Pearce
Caroline Pearce is an OPENspace Research Fellow based at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She joined the OPENspace team in April 2021 to work on Personal Projects within the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC).

Dr Charlotte Wendelboe-Nelson
Charlotte joined OPENspace as a Research Associate based at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is currently working 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 wellbeing.

Dr Sara Tilley
Sara is an OPENspace Research Fellow based at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She joined the OPENspace team in January 2014, primarily to work on Mobility, Mood and Place (MMP) and Woods In and Around Towns.

Dr Scott Ogletree
Scott Ogletree is an OPENspace Research Fellow based at in the Edinburgh College of Art, joining in June 2021. He works within two projects at OPENspace, “Woods In and Around Town” – 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.

Professor 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.