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How does living in a rural or coastal area impact our ability to age healthily? 🌊 Sneak peek of findings from our report with Age NI and ThePaulHogarthCo in Slugger O'Toole 🔗 bit.ly/4fdGB9l

Great to be part of this event today as part of the ESRC Festival NI with Age NI, ThePaulHogarthCo and Claire Potter This report highlights some of the challenges in healthy ageing among those in rural and coastal communities 🌊 #ESRCFestival SPACE QUB

The GroundsWell Consortium Belfast contingent have landed in (a very frosty) Liverpool ✈️ Looking forward to three busy days in the city with the consortium and partners 🌳

Final presenters of the day, Niamh and Sammy 🌳 Inclusive beaches and Dear Green Place

On Monday, we visited our partners, Mae Murray Foundation at their office We presented them with a visual output summarising our findings from an evaluation of their Inclusive Beach programme 🌊 Hear more about this evaluation at our webinar on Tuesday! bit.ly/4fTBXx9

On Thursday, our Early Career Researchers had their monthly catch up meeting 🌳 Where we also sadly said our goodbyes to our dear colleague Dr Claire Cleland, leaving for pastures new!

Was great to join Safe Night NI Alliance for Choice Derry last night for their open meeting on Violence Against Women and Girls - great hearing about some of the fantastic work being done across the region, and to bring learnings back to our work on VAWG in public spaces with GroundsWell Consortium

Accessibility and inclusion in green and blue spaces 🌳 Thanks to all who came along to our webinar this afternoon, and to our three speakers - Jacqueline, Kyleigh and Ruth - for their insight into this very important topic 🌊 Recording to follow!

Ruth, Shay and Niamh are presenting today to the Outdoor Recreation Network's Academic Research Group 🌳 Presenting an overview of SPACE, our geoportal, and other policy and practice tools from our project 🗺️ Thank you for the invitation Outdoor Recreation Network

NEW! 🍎 Available now in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Nutrition Society Publications A review of the key findings from GENIUS and progress to date, as well as a summary of the current literature, identification of knowledge gaps and areas of debate Read now ⬇️ bit.ly/4g5shjn

Karen Cummings is the 25th woman murdered in NI in the last four years. We are one of the most dangerous countries for women in Europe. We are being murdered - your mums, daughters, sisters, aunts, friends. How did we get here? And when will it end? #VAWG

Art by Victoria Villasana #giselepelicot

Great to be involved in QUB Architecture's Activity Week ✏️ Task: to design public toilets for Belfast greenways 🚽 I presented our GroundsWell Consortium work on accessibility & inclusion on Mon, then watched the presentations today. Fabulous work by the students, in only 4 days! 🌳

Yesterday we hosted our final systems mapping workshop on preventing Violence Against Women and Girls in public outdoor spaces - a huge thank you to participants 🌳 Our next steps involve refining the map and priority actions, and bringing these to a citizen panel. Stay tuned!

Great opportunity to have attended #AAOS2025 in San Diego this week, with three of our posters accepted for the conference - work supported by Trauma & Orthopaedics Research Charity and supervised by Owen Diamond Richard Napier

There's an exciting line-up of speakers at our 'Equality, Diversity & Inclusion' event on 9 April. Niamh O'Kane will present on inclusive & impactful disemination of research. Niamh is a postdoc research fellow and science communicator GroundsWell Consortium QUB Public Health Public Engagement MHLS

Great to be invited along to this event today to talk about inclusive and impactful dissemination of research, with some examples from GroundsWell Consortium 🌊 Thanks to HSCRandD for organising a really interesting event with a great line up of speakers 👏

Congratulations to our trainee Patrick Hickland on winning the prestigious John Wong IOFAS Annual Scientific Award for work on Circular Frame Management of Distal Tibial Fractures; 15 Year of Practice in a Tertiary Referral Unit. #Trauma #limbrecon #pilon #anklefracture #Ilizarov

Great joining Age NI COPNI NI Commissioner for Children and Young People Linking Generations Northern Ireland & other community sector organisations to discuss intergenerational solutions to social issues, where we developed a set of principles to encourage policymakers to adopt an intergenerational lens ⬇️ facebook.com/agenicharity/v…

Participating in the British Science Association Community Buddies programme was an incredibly rewarding experience ✨ Grateful for positive partnership working and thankful to the GroundsWell Consortium team for helping me deliver a really fun series of activities with a lovely group of lads! 👇