Honor Mackley-Ward

Biography

Honor’s research specialism is in the interrelationships between the environment and human health. She has experience working with themes in nature connectedness, green social prescribing, health inequalities, and environmental science. She has a broad, practical skillset, specialising in primary qualitative and mixed methods research, science communications and research co-production.

Between her degrees, Honor worked in science communications and volunteer management for educational, charitable, and nature-based organisations. She is a trained advocate in accessible communications and democratising academic research, and thrives in conducting research that is public facing, policy relevant, and well anchored in the needs of society.

Projects include:

• Green Social Prescribing Provision (RPA): Investigating the needs of GSP providers for providing effective and sustainable nature-based health interventions.
• Access to Nature (Barnwood Trust): Improving access to nature for disabled people, neurodivergent people, and people with mental health conditions.
• SPRINT (Horizon 2020): Investigating the impact of pesticides on one-health.
• MINAGRIS (Horizon 2020): Investigating the impact of micro- and nano-plastics on soils.
• Flourishing Floodplains (WWT): Floodplain meadow restoration in the Severn Estuary.
• PBC4GGR (UKRI): Perennial biomass crops and their potential in meeting net zero.
• Evaluation Study (EU): European Network for Rural Development and National Rural Networks evaluation.

Qualifications

• MSc Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School
• BSc (Hons) Geography, Environment and Society, University of Exeter