Module manager: Dr. Myles Gould
Email: m.i.gould@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2026/27
GEOG3140
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module will consider the relationships between people’s health, wellbeing and place. Specifically, it will examine characteristics of places that support healthy living and others that may be considered risky or health damaging. Examples of indicative themes include: blue and green spaces, area/neighbourhood effects, the role of religion and culture in supporting health (including cultural diversity), obesogenic environments, social capital, complementary health, sustainable design and social prescribing. The module will draw on range of different ideas from health geographies, social and cultural geographies, medical sociology, health psychology, environmental psychology, public health, and social policy. The module involves consideration of theoretical ideas including: biopolitics, health epistemologies, population surveillance and governability, therapeutic landscapes, eco-anxiety and social capital. You will be encouraged and supported in thinking about, and observing characteristics, of both therapeutic and health care landscapes that support health and well-being. We will also organise one local short field trips to scaffold learning related to ‘reading’ and analysing therapeutic landscapes. You will produce an artefact focused on a healthy or unhealthy place of your choosing that will be assessed. Students will be supported in learning to create / produce the artefact. Knowledge, understanding and skills developed will potentially be transferable and applicable to jobs in both the public and private sectors.
On completion of this module, students will have developed the following knowledge and skills:
-Understanding relationships between people’s health, wellbeing and place.
-Developed an ability to analyse and interpret characteristics of places that are supportive for healthy living and/or that are risky and health damaging.
-Gained experience in reading and interpreting therapeutic and health care landscapes through the production of a short film.
-Appreciated relevant conceptual perspectives and current debates from across social science.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Have an advanced understanding of human social, economic, political and cultural systems from a spatial and/or environmental perspective.
2. Possess the critical skills necessary to engage with ideas in the social sciences and humanities; and to employ these ideas as a basis for student's own research.
3. Demonstrate the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of human geography
4. Produce work that is typically both evaluative and creative
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
1. Creativity
2. The communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences
3. Digital proficiency
4. The exercise of initiative and personal responsibility
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drop-in Session | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Fieldwork | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Practical | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Seminar | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Private study hours | 170 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 30 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Students will attend a project workshop and be able to obtain feedback on project ideas that will form the basis of their film through timetabled drop-in slots with module staff.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Group Project | Coursework | 50 |
| Coursework | coursework | 50 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
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Last updated: 05/05/2026
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