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PhD Opportunity: Co-creating Flood-Resilient Green Spaces
Co-creating Flood-Resilient Green Spaces: Understanding Health, Access and Equity in Leicestershire Communities
Loughborough University is recruiting PhD students interested in focusing on the intersection of climate resilience and health.
Project Details:
This interdisciplinary PhD project explores the critical but underexamined intersection of environmental geography, public health, and urban resilience. Focusing on structurally disadvantaged populations in the UK, it investigates how flooding disrupts access to green spaces, key determinants of health and wellbeing, and how these disruptions are unevenly experienced across communities.
While green infrastructure is widely recognised for its role in mitigating urban stressors and promoting wellbeing, flooding can render these spaces unsafe or inaccessible, undermining their benefits. Using Leicestershire as a case study, the project will employ participatory methods to capture lived experiences of disrupted access among underrepresented groups including children, older adults, disabled people, transient communities, and low-income households.
By situating flooding within broader systems of inequity, the research will extend resilience frameworks to include spatial, social, and emotional dimensions of accessibility. It will:
- Examine how flooding affects green space access and engagement.
- Assess the health and wellbeing impacts of these disruptions.
- Co-create knowledge and solutions with residents to inform inclusive, climate-resilient planning and policy.
Primary supervisor: Professor Lauren Sherar
Secondary supervisors: Dr Katie Parsons, Dr Jacqui Cotton (Environment Agency), Dr Sarah McNeill (HDRC)
Application Deadline: Jan. 8th, 2026
For more details and how to apply, visit https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd-opportunities/co-creating-flood-resilient-green-spaces/
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