Rate My Professor Birgitta Gatersleben

Gatersleben's work centers on environmental sustainability and wellbeing, with specific foci on nature engagement, active transport, and consumerism. She is co-director of the £6.25 million ESRC-funded ACCESS network (2022-2027), which champions environmental social science to address climate challenges. As principal investigator, she leads an ESRC project on wellbeing benefits from nature engagement during the pandemic and the Dunhill Medical Trust-funded Birds and Bees project, co-designing conservation activities to promote nature engagement among older people. She is also co-investigator on the UGPN project Less Netflix, more nature, exploring green social prescribing perceptions. Previous involvement includes major interdisciplinary programmes like CUSP, RESOLVE, and Elicit on sustainable prosperity and wellbeing. Key publications include Measurement and Determinants of Environmentally Significant Consumer Behavior (Environment and Behavior, 2002), Values, identity and pro-environmental behaviour (Contemporary Social Science, 2014), and recent works such as Man or bear? How gender affects experiences of natural environments (Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2025) and Noticing nature: The role of environmental awareness in promoting well-being (People and Nature, 2025). Her Google Scholar profile shows over 13,900 citations. In 2026, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.