Trish Darcy
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

Trish is an Applied Health researcher and a Research Associate in the Mental Health and Addiction Research Group, University of York working at the intersection of health, environment, and social sciences. Her work is broadly organised across two primary research themes: ‘Natural Environments and Health’ and ‘Mental Health and Physical Multimorbidity’. She leads the ‘Natural Environment and Mental Health’ workstream for the NIHR ARC Yorkshire & Humber funded programme of work on mental and physical multimorbidity, co-led by the Universities of York and Sheffield.

Through her research, Trish aims to advance understanding of how environmental and other contextual factors can influence health outcomes, and to develop relevant and tailored interventions to support people living with long-term mental and physical health conditions. Co-production and participatory approaches are central to her work through embedding meaningful collaboration with communities, patient and public partners, and practitioners to ensure research is grounded in lived experience and has real-world relevance.

Overall, Trish's research contributes to the development of inclusive, community-informed strategies and interventions that seek to support positive health outcomes and address health inequalities in service provision.

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Qualifications

B.A. (Hons) Psychology
MSc Health Psychology
PhD Natural Environments and Health

Research

Overview

Trish's research areas include natural environments and health, mental and physical multimorbidity, health inequalities, participatory research and co-production.

Projects

NIHR RCF: TEWV Co-producing NBIs for People with SMI to support positive health outcomes in working age adults at Foss Park hospital
NIHR RCF: SHSC Serpent (Skills and Essentials Required to ParticipatE iN the digiTal world)
NIHR Team Science: Nature Quality Health Collaborative - Co-producing methodologies to incorporate environmental quality into Nature-Based Interventions for health