Faye started her studies at the University of Bath, completing her degree in BSc Psychology. Alongside her studies, Faye worked as a researcher in urbanicity and health in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. During her placement year she travelled to Uppsala in Sweden, where she worked as a guest researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research. Faye was awarded the Guarantors of Brain award and the Student as Producers Grant to travel and present her research at multiple international conferences during her undergraduate studies, including in Barcelona, Florence, Nice and Stockholm.
More recently, Faye was awarded as a finalist for Inside Housing Magazine's 2024 Woman of the Future award, for her commitment to housing and health research.
Faye has joined AAPS to further investigate associations between people and their living environments to understand how this influences mobility and health.
Faye’s PhD seeks to improve our understanding of how the built environment (such as the transport networks and transport facilities around our homes) influences mental health, and whether this can be explained by active travel behaviour. There are considerable gaps in knowledge that need addressing, such as uncertainties around which factors in the built environment are particularly important for health. By investigating the role of active travel behaviour in these relationships, this PhD aims to shed more light on why we see frequent associations between the built environment and mental health. Faye will also explore these relationships in childhood, and investigate how the built environment (including transport networks and facilities) and travel behaviour shapes child brain development. This is important for understanding why interventions targeted at the built environment and travel choices are not only important for planetary health, but also for population health.
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