Dr. Simon Bell is a landscape architect, Professor of Landscape and Wellbeing at the University of Edinburgh and Chair Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. He has conducted research into a range of aspects related to the role of nature and outdoor spaces on human health and wellbeing, most recently that of water – blue spaces – as part of a Horizon2020 project “BlueHealth”. He has published widely, both books on various aspects of landscape architecture and scientific papers.