Research is all about people and data - but how does ‘data collection’ work? Sarah Bell talks through what it’s like to gather data from across the country for Sensing Nature.

We’re excited to be working closely with the Design Council, the UK Government’s leading adviser on strategic design.

Why do we tune into the sounds of nature and how do we relate to the origin of those sounds? Could the 'sonic charisma' of a landscape have something to do with it?

Amongst other nature-based activities, we’d like to learn more about people’s experiences of gardening with a visual impairment, and recently met up with an exciting charity that uses gardens as therapeutic environments.

I recently spent some time with the New Zealand Blind Foundation to get to grips with how groups in other parts of the world are enabling interactions with nature.

Sighted people can often feel unsure about approaching someone with a visual impairment. Here are some tips I picked up at a recent training course with Guide Dogs UK.

There’s far more to the natural environment than meets the eye and a new initiative called 'Silent Spaces' is offering people the chance to delve into this unseen world.

We recently made a trip to the Bat Conservation Trust, to learn how they're making their activities inclusive for people with visual impairments.

At the beginning of January this year, Sarah met up with Dr Hannah Macpherson to talk about visually impaired walking groups and some of her research which is relevant to the Sensing Nature project.

How do people with different types of visual impairment interact with natural environments? Sarah talks to Terri and Rod from iSightCornwall about their experiences.

There are subtle distinctions that exist between different sight conditions, here we highlight the most common types of vision impairment.

Many people have asked me why I have chosen to focus specifically on vision impairment in this project and I thought I might take the opportunity here to write a little more about the initial source of inspiration for it all.