Rate My Professor Claire Henderson-Wilson

Henderson-Wilson's research specializations encompass planetary health, socio-ecological health, nature-based interventions, animal-assisted interventions, therapeutic landscapes, green spaces in healthcare settings, and the mental health impacts of climate change, including eco-anxiety. She employs qualitative, mixed-methods, and scoping review approaches to explore human-nature relationships and their influence on wellbeing. Key publications include 'Developing an Exploratory Framework Linking Australian Indigenous and Western Knowing About the Health of Country' (2013), which has received over 300 citations; 'Nature-Based Interventions for Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Scoping Review Centering Autistic Adults' (2024); 'Nature-Based Design in Stroke Rehabilitation Environments: A Scoping Review' (2024); 'Healthy Me, Healthy Planet: Evaluation of a pilot planetary health library program' (2025); and 'Health empowerment scripts: Simplifying social/green prescriptions' (2022). Her scholarship has amassed over 2,600 citations on Google Scholar across more than 50 publications. Among her honors, she received the 2016 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Healthy Deakin. Henderson-Wilson has secured grants such as Deakin University Small Grant Schemes and contributes to guest editing special issues on health, wellbeing, and environmental benefits of nature contact. Her work advances interdisciplinary understandings of sustainability, health promotion, and community initiatives for mental health resilience.