Grace Katharine Forster
About
Grace Katharine Forster is a PhD candidate at the Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, and an authorised physiotherapist with a masters degree in Healthy Ageing and Rehabilitation. She is working as part of the interdisciplinary research project "Sustainable Built Environments for Health and Wellbeing" (SWELL) which is involved under the wider network for sustainability research projects (SusRes). Her research focuses on understanding the social determinants of health related to the built environment among adults with disabilities and identifying solutions to work towards sustainable health equity among this population group.
Memberships
The Norwegian Association of Researchers (NAR)
The Environmental Physiotherapy Association (EPA)
Research
Publications
2023
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Forster, Grace Katharine;
Aarø, Leif Edvard;
Alme, Maria Nordheim;
Hansen, Thomas;
Nilsen, Thomas Sevenius;
Vedaa, Øystein.
(2023)
Built Environment Accessibility and Disability as Predictors of Well-Being among Older Adults: A Norwegian Cross-Sectional Study.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
Academic article
Journal publications
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Forster, Grace Katharine;
Aarø, Leif Edvard;
Alme, Maria Nordheim;
Hansen, Thomas;
Nilsen, Thomas Sevenius;
Vedaa, Øystein.
(2023)
Built Environment Accessibility and Disability as Predictors of Well-Being among Older Adults: A Norwegian Cross-Sectional Study.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
Academic article
Media
2022
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Academic lecturePetersen, Sobah Abbas; Andalib, Elham; Forster, Grace Katharine. (2022) SWELL Sustainable Built Environments for better Health and WELL-being . CESICT - NTNU Centre for Sustainable ICT CESICT - kick-off , Trondheim 2022-09-26 - 2022-09-26
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Academic lectureForster, Grace Katharine. (2022) Addressing Health Equity for Adults with Disabilities. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Healthy Ageing and Rehabilitation , Bergen 2022-09-20 - 2022-09-20
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Academic lectureForster, Grace Katharine. (2022) Built environment for better health and wellbeing: Sustainable health equity for adults living with disabilities. NTNU SWELL Seminar , Trondheim 2022-12-07 - 2022-12-07