The Nourishing City: Creating healthy, happy, and nutritious cities

Entry requirements

Please use this Research Proposal, Personal statement and CV writing guide when preparing an application.

Months of entry

Anytime

Course content

Cities are associated with increased depression and anxiety rates, compared to their rural counterparts, and the adoption of lifestyles that favour the development of non-communicable diseases. This is due, in part, to increased exposure to outdoor air pollution, overcrowding, crime, stressful work, and social isolation, as well as the increased consumption of salt and high-sugar foods, reduced physical activity, and increased tobacco use. To counteract these trends, we must consider how cities can be redesigned to create healthy and happy environments that benefit our physical and psychological wellbeing.

The PhD project will develop new urban strategies that improve health outcomes for citizens by, for example, providing access to balanced diets through urban farming to improve nutrition, providing sufficient access to green spaces at the micro, meso, and macro scales to promote wellbeing and physical activity, providing access to peaceful spaces to recharge when necessaary, creating urban playgrounds for young children, providing access to allotments and garden spaces for those living in apartments to build communities, and many more.

The project can be explored from a health, sustainable development, human geography, or built environment perspective, or a combination of these.

Fees and funding

This programme is self-funded.

To enquire about University of Salford funding schemes – including the Widening Participation Scholarship – visit this website.