School of Health Sciences and Social Work

Health and social care environments

HipHop This theme addresses sensory environments (e.g. the built environment, and the materials, components, and multi-faceted systems making up the environment). Areas within this theme include:

  • quantifying the effects (of individual components or systems) of health and social care environments on health-related outcomes
  • exploring the psycho-social effects of health and social care environments
  • exploring methodologies for conducting research in the field of environmental design
  • cross-disciplinary collaborations and networks in environmental design research. 

Studies include:

  • The HIP-HOP Flooring Study (Helping Injury Prevention in Hospitalised Older People) (Martin Severs, Amy Drahota, Derek Ward, Julie Udell, Heather Mackenzie, Tara Dean) 
  • Environmental and psychosocial concomitants of falls and injury prevention in institutional settings (Julie Udell, Amy Drahota, Tara Dean, Ruth Sander, Alan Costall) 
  • Sensory environment on health-related outcomes of hospital patients - a systematic review (Amy Drahota, Rebecca Stores, Derek Ward, B Higgins, T Dean) 
  • Bedscapes Project (Amy Drahota, Derek Ward)