Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Visiting and Research Positions
Visiting Professor, Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Visiting Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology
Visiting lecturer, Akdeniz University, Turkey; Aalto University, Finland; Hame University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Collaborative Activity
Le:Notre III Project (www.le-notre.org)
Cost Action TU1201 Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe
Cost Action FP1204 Green Infrastructure and Urban Forestry
Cost Action IS1204 ToBeWell
Biography
Was a landscape architect with the Forestry Commission for 20 years before joining ECA at the end of 1999. Also works as a landscape consultant in the UK and internationally, specialising in forest landscape planning and design projects and recreation planning and design.
President of European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) from 2012 (www.eclas.org)
Editorial Board of Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
Editorial Board of Journal of Recreation and Tourism
Editor for Sustainability
Editor for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Research Groups
OPENspace Research Centre: www.openspace.eca.ac.uk
Teaching
Courses taught: Landscape Architecture Theory 1A; Landscape Design for Health and Wellbeing; Dissertation in Landscape and Wellbeing; Data Acquisition and Analysis for Person-Environment Studies
Research students
Montasir Alabdullah: making streets in Saudi cities more pedestrian friendly
Omar Mohammed: Contemporary monuments in the landscape
Caroline Stanton: Scale and perception of wind turbines in the landscape
Francisca Lima: Public space in shrinking cities: the case of Lisbon
Aikaterina Mitka: tourism landscape futures in Greece post-crisis
Azlina Aziz: Blind people and their use of public space in Malaysia
Rick le Brasseur: urban sprawl and landscape
Matluba Khan: Design for outdoor education in Bangladechi elementary schools
Ziwen Sun: Walkability in contemporary Chinese cities
Research Interests
Outdoor recreation planning and design
Urban development and quality of life
Landscape and health
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Landscape change, landscape perception and the Latvian countryside, Estonian University of Life Sciences
Award Date: 1 Jan 2009
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 1 Jan 1983
Bachelor of Science, University of Wales
Award Date: 1 Jan 1979
External positions
Professor, Latvia University of Agriculture
1 Sept 2013 → …
Professor, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute for Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
1 Sept 2009 → …
Keywords
- GV Recreation Leisure
- Outdoor recreation planning and design
- SD Forestry
- forest landscape planninga nd design
- GE Environmental Sciences
- Landscape Architecture
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Virtual imaginative geographies: Generative AI and the representation of landscape imagery
Alkhateeb, G., Storie, J., Bell, S. & Suškevičs, M., 28 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geographies. 5, 1, p. 1-20 20 p., 9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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What types of nature exposure are associated with hedonic, eudaimonic and evaluative wellbeing? An 18-country study
McDougall, C. W., Elliott, L. R., White, M. P., Grellier, J., Bell, S., Bratman, G. N., Nieuwenhuijsen, M., Lima, M. L., Ojala, A., Cirach, M., Roiko, A., van den Bosch, M. & Fleming, L. E., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Environmental Psychology. 100, p. 1-15 15 p., 102479.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How university blue and green space affect students’ mental health: A scoping review
Aghabozorgi, K., van der Jagt, A., Bell, S. & Smith, H., Jul 2024, In: Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 97, p. 1-12 12 p., 128394.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Understanding associations between neighbourhood-environment perceptions and walking behaviour in low-tier Chinese cities
Sun, Z., Kang, N., Scott, I. & Bell, S., 8 Apr 2024, In: Journal of Transport & Health. 36, p. 1-12 12 p., 101806.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Your favourite park is not my favourite park: A participatory geographic information system approach to improving urban green and blue spaces—a case study in Edinburgh, Scotland
Wendelboe-Nelson, C., Wang, Y., Bell, S., McDougall, C. W. & Thompson, C. W., 20 Mar 2024, In: Land. 13, 3, p. 1-28 28 p., 395.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Beijing Institute of Technology
Simon Bell (Visiting lecturer)
2 Dec 2024 → 6 Dec 2024Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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The underated role of urban blue spaces in supporting health and wellbeing
Simon Bell (Speaker)
19 Nov 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Inaugural lecture on appointment to personal chair of landscape and wellbeing
Simon Bell (Speaker)
30 Oct 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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International Society of Forest Therapy
Simon Bell (Speaker)
18 Sept 2024 → 20 Sept 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Harbin Institute of Technology
Simon Bell (Visiting lecturer)
15 Jul 2024 → 19 Jul 2024Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
Prizes
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European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools Lifetime Achievement Award
Bell, Simon (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Projects
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Building community evidence for urban parklets in Edinburgh
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Datasets
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Capturing the Dynamic Character of the Philippine Peri-urban Landscape: A Landscape Character Approach for the Region of Cavite
Nadal, C. (Creator), Del Rosario, T. C. (Creator), Alanano, A. T. (Creator), Barroga, S. D. (Creator), Aloc, A. (Creator), Bell, S. (Supervisor) & MacKenzie, L. (Supervisor), Edinburgh DataShare, 29 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3772
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