Laurence Cannings
Postdoctoral Researcher in Nature, Human Health and Wellbeing
Department/institute
- School of Geography and the Environment
Laurence is a social geographer with research interests centred on the interaction between environmental conditions – such as climate risks and landscape characteristics – and wellbeing outcomes, including both objective (i.e., poverty) and subjective measures (i.e., happiness).
He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery working on projects that explore the health and wellbeing benefits of nature in the UK and global context. Laurence completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Southampton, where he explored the relationship between objective and subjective wellbeing in the vulnerable coastal location of Volta Delta in southeast Ghana. He also has experience working at the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Office for the Asia Pacific region, where he supported efforts to integrate broader concepts of wellbeing within nature-based solution projects.