- Peter/coventry@york.ac.uk
Peter Coventry is Professor of Environment and Mental Health in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York and Director of the Mental Health and Addiction Research Group.
Peter has an interdisciplinary background. Peter is an applied health methodologist with expertise in evidence synthesis, qualitative process evaluations, and evaluations of complex interventions, especially in public and community health settings. Pete’s research adopts an ecological public health perspective, using a range of applied methodologies [systematic reviews; epidemiological and data science; user-centred co-design; qualitative approaches; trials) to design and evaluate complex interventions for populations exposed to health inequalities.
Peter Coventry's latest projects
Embedding environmental quality into nature-based interventions for health
Nature-Based Interventions (NBIs), such as conservation and gardening activities, aim to improve the health and wellbeing of participants through engagement with nature. These activities also improve the ‘quality’ of the...
Humber and North Yorkshire Green Social Prescribing (HNY GSP) Cohort Evaluation
As part of the UK’s cross-government commitment to embed GSP into communities to prevent and tackle mental ill health, the HNY Health and Care Partnership was commissioned as one of...
Craftwell
The aim of this mixed-methods study was to test the feasibility of running outdoor heritage craft workshops at the York Experimental Archaeology Research Centre and to explore how linking students...
