Melissa Marselle is a full-time research student at the IESD under the supervision of Dr Katherine Irvine and Dr Sara Warber. Melissa’s project - Growing Resilience through Interaction with Nature (GRIN) - will investigate the contribution of walking in green places to psychological and mental wellbeing. The research is a collaborative venture with Natural England’s Walking for Health scheme, and the University of Michigan’s Integrative Medicine programme and Department of Family Medicine in the United States. This project expands the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development’s (IESD) work on the human health-environment dimension of sustainable development and is funded by a DMU Research Student Scholarship.
Melissa holds a BA (cum laude) in Psychology from Oregon State University (USA) and an MSc distinction in Environmental Psychology from the University of Surrey. Prior to joining the IESD, Melissa had worked as a research assistant at the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Investigative Psychology and a research fellow at the University of Salford’s Design Against Crime Solution Centre. In September 2009, Melissa was profiled by Wired UK magazine for using environmental psychology to design safer city centres. |
Melissa Marselle