Elizabeth Marcheschi

Background

About Elizabeth Marcheschi

I have a MSc in Clinical and Community Psychology, a PhD and Postdoctoral training in the field of Environmental Psychology and Healthcare Architecture. Also, I am a Psychosynthesis therapist and I work with the symbolism and actual contact and connection with nature to support self-awareness, self-discovery and realization. This eclectic background is blended in both my teaching and my research. The focus of my work is on human-environment dynamic interplay, with specific attention on users’ experience of place, and how that affects health and environmental sustainable issues. In both, teaching and research, attention is therefore given, to those psychosocial processes that intercede between the environment and people’s health and well-being. I am used to work with laboratory investigations and field studies at different units of environmental analysis, encompassing therefore transdisciplinary approaches of research (from micro, the individual- to macro, the overall community and policies implications). At present I am the program director of studies of an online Master education about outdoor environments for health and well-being (OHW). I work therefore across the different courses in an ongoing dialogue with all the teachers to ensure quality and progression of our learning outcomes. I teach in several of the courses provided by this Master education but also I teach within other institution at SLU. I am responsible specifically for three courses within the OHW Master, respectively; environmental perception and experience, place activity and human development and research methods for people and environment studies.