Sara Bradley is a Senior Research Fellow with the Wales School for Social Prescribing Research at the University of South Wales and has over 15 years’ experience of qualitative health-related research.  She has a BA from the University of Oxford and a PhD in social gerontology from the University of Aberdeen.

She is currently leading two UKRI-funded projects:

• Rural Health Equity: a three-year AHRC funded project which aims to examine health inequalities in rural areas and maximise the use of existing community assets, such as museums, archive centres, libraries, heritage and natural sites to promote health and well-being.

Projects to help communities reduce health inequalities – UKRI

• Healthy Young Minds: an 18-month MRC funded project aiming to co-produce a nature-based intervention with young adolescents to promote mental well-being.

https://www.southwales.ac.uk/news/2024/may/mental-health-awareness-week--promoting-mental-well-being-through-engagement-with-nature/

Research interests:

• Social prescribing
• Health inequalities 
• Rural health & well-being
• Rural services provision
• Non-pharmaceutical interventions for health & well-being
• Green health
• Mental health and well-being
• Social gerontology
• Community engagement and co-production