Scott Ogletree

Lecturer in Landscape and Wellbeing

University of Edinburgh

About Me

Scott is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor in the USA system) in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art, all within the University of Edinburgh. He is a researcher and instructor interested in connections between human well-being and the environment. Scott researches these connections using spatial and statistical tools to better understand how the natural world impacts people.

Scott is also the Programme Director for the MSc Landscape and Wellbeing

Interests

Data and geospatial science
Cities and development
Space and place
Environmental and social determinants of health

Education

PhD

Clemson University
Master of Landscape Architecture

Clemson University
BSc in Education

University of Georgia

Publications

Emily M D'Agostino, Amy Y Zhao, Hiwot Y Zewdie, Scott Ogletree, Sarah E Messiah, Sarah C Armstrong, Ashey C Skinner, J Aaron Hipp, Sophia E Day, Kevin J Konty, Cody D Neshteruk (2023). Associations Between Neighborhood Opportunity and Indicators of Physical Fitness for New York City Public School Youth. Childhood Obesity.

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Scott Ogletree, Jing-Huei Huang, David Reif, Lin Yang, Christopher Dunstan, Nnamdi Osakwe, Jae In Oh, J Aaron Hipp (2023). The relationship between greenspace exposure and telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Science of the Total Environment.

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Hiwot Y Zewdie, Amy Y Zhao, Scott Ogletree, Sarah E Messiah, Sarah C Armstrong, Ashey C Skinner, Cody D Neshteruk, J Aaron Hipp, Sophia E Day, Kevin J Konty, Emily M D'Agostino (2023). Longitudinal Associations Between Neighborhood Child Opportunity and Physical Fitness for New York City Public School Youth. American Journal of Epidemiology.

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Matthew HEM Browning, Alessandro Rigolon, Scott Ogletree, Ruoyu Wang, Jochem Klompmaker, Chris Bailey, Ryan Gagnon, Peter James (2022). Curated dataset of accessible and recreational parks in the U.S.: Comparison to greenspace metrics and sociodemographics. Scientific Data.

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Brian Barger, Lincoln R Larson, Julia Torquati, Eric Moody, Scott Ogletree, Steven Rosenberg (2022). The complex relationship between greenspace and well-being in children with and without autism. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being.

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Experience

Lecturer in Landscape and Wellbeing

University of Edinburgh

Jan 2023 – Present Edinburgh

Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology

University of Edinburgh

Sep 2022 – Jan 2023 Edinburgh

As part of the GroundsWell Project working on data collection and analysis for evaluating community urban green and blue spaces to promote health and well being.