Join us as OPENspace honours the remarkable legacy of Professor Peter Aspinall with the first Peter Aspinall Memorial Lecture, taking place on Wednesday 26 November at 6pm in the West Court lecture theatre, Edinburgh College of Art.

Professor Jenny Roe will deliver the lecture, exploring Peter’s pioneering impact on restorative environment research and its global legacy.

This first memorial lecture will highlight Professor Peter Aspinall’s contribution to the field of restorative environment research as viewed through the empirical research of his former PhD student, Jenny Roe, the inaugural Mary Irene DeShong Professor of Design & Health and Director of the Centre for Design & Health, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA.

Professor Roe, whom Peter tutored, mentored, and collaborated with from 2005 onwards, will highlight the new paradigms they developed together, in conjunction with multi-disciplinary teams at the Universities of Edinburgh, Heriot Watt and other UK research institutions. She will reflect on the global impact of this collaborative research and how it has changed the discipline of environmental psychology.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception at 7pm.

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