Catharine Ward Thompson is professor of landscape architecture and directs OPENspace - the research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments ( - at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on inclusive access to outdoor environments and links between landscape and health. It includes work with children, young people and older people; it covers environment-behaviour interactions, historic landscapes and contemporary needs, and salutogenic environments. She has led several multidisciplinary research collaborations investigating relationships between environment and health, including the GreenHealth project for Scottish Government and a Research Councils UK funded project, Mobility, Mood and Place - www.mobilitymoodplace.ac.uk - with an emphasis on positive experiences and restorative outdoor environments for older people. She has also led longitudinal research to assess the benefits of local woodland interventions on the health and wellbeing of deprived urban communities. She has contributed to WHO European Region's Urban Green Spaces and Health report, Scottish Government's Good Places, Better Health initiative and the development of its Place Standard.