Masters Research

  It was really interesting reading through this article about this phenomenon of people being happier or having better mental health when they are near a body of water, the article talks about how people living with 1km or 5km are "associated with better general and mental health" this got me onto thinking about which countries are the happiest in the world and if this was to do with how close the countries are to bodies of water. In this ranking conducted by World Population Review we can see that the happiest country is Finland and looking at a map of their country I think my stupid hypothesis that surely the happiest country in the world must have a lot of water is true. While this is very basic and the most top layer of the surface of this subject it is still really interesting that large bodies of water seem to have this effect on us and our mental health, I think this project could be really interesting if look into our seeming love affair with water and what causes th...

looking at all my mood board I think the subjects that interest me the most are the sea and the connection between the sea and mental health, while I may at first connected the pollution of the sea and harming of sea creatures to the decline of people's mental health I now want to look more at how going to the coast and being near large bodies of water may improve people's wellbeing and mental health. From my own anecdotal experience when I am near the sea and sat by the coast watching the waves a sense of calm comes over me.  Just from a quick Google search typing in "sea and mental health" you can find loads of articles about this sense of calm and happiness that comes over people when they are near the sea or large bodies of water. I think it would be a really interesting project to learn more about this feeling that people get and why exactly it happens.