Parks, safety and lighting

Programme and presentations

• Setting the scene - Emma Halliday, greenspace scotland | presentation
  
  
• Young Women Lead Report 2021 – young women’s experience of Glasgow’s parks - Mia Steven, YWCA

• Women’s Safety in Parks – project and research from West Yorkshire 
  Helen Forman, West Yorkshire Combined Authority & Dr Anna Barker, Leeds University | presentation

• Lighting the way? Experience from Melbourne and Scotland –  Laura Phillips, Arup | presentation

Parks and greenspaces – a gender blindspot? - Susannah Walker, Make Space for Girls | presentation

Notes from workshop discussions

• Overview of park safety issues - experience from around Scotland
• Lighting in parks and public spaces 

Quick links

As shared via Chat - see also workshop notes for links to lighting examples

• YWCA - Glasgow: A Feminist City? Young Women Lead Report 2021
• West Yorkshire Combined Authority - £655k to improve safety 
• Safer Parks Project – Leeds University
• Arup, Monash University’s XYX Lab and Plan International research into what contributes to feelings of safety among women and girls 
• Cities alive – lighting the urban night time 
• Atkins - Get Home Safe document informs design guidance. It is more focused on the public realm and streetscapes but has very useful background info and research statistics 
• UN Women UK campaign for public spaces to be safe and inclusive for all 
  
  
• Make Space for Girls 
• Young Placechangers – resources and toolkit 
  
  
• Mental Health Foundation Scotland – All the lonely people 
• Open Space Strategies and Play Sufficiency Assessment: Health Inequalities Impact Assessment scoping report