11 August 2008 Sarah Payne Wins International Best Young Researcher AwardThe bi-annual 'International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS)' conference for Environmental Psychologists, Landscape Architects and Architects was recently held in Rome. Sarah Payne, a previous BSc Psychology student from Sheffield is now a PhD student at the University of Manchester won the 'IAPS Young Researchers Best Paper Award' with her paper entitled 'Soundscapes within urban parks: their restorative value' which is also a summary of her thesis. Her interest in the environmental psychology of public spaces started with her undergraduate study of Devonshire Green and its many groups of users was completed at the University of Sheffield. |