Social geography and rural mental health research

Dr Candice Boyd

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, literature review, wrote the first draft

position: Leader

Australia

Dr Candice Boyd is an artist-geographer and clinical psychologist in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include geographies of mental health, therapeutic spaces, regional youth and eco-cultural identities.

Prof Hester Parr

qualifications: PhD

contribution: literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Reader

Professor Hester Parr is human geographer researching mental health and illness. She is currently working on projects relating to missing persons and, separately, seasonal affective disorder.