Explore the research and resources behind Every Tree Tells a Story, including a published paper on how urban trees support emotional, relational, physical, and community wellbeing. Dive into the downloadable policy insights and discover how stories — just like yours — are shaping the future of urban forestry.
| Ecological Citizenship – Tree Narratives in Urban Glasgow | The course outline for the GSA MDes Design Innovation and Citizenship |
| The Treescape and Citizen Wellbeing | “Every Tree Tells a Story: The treescape and citizen wellbeing.” Ecological Frontiers (2025). |
| 5 Proposals for Urban Forestry Innovation | A policy innovation insight exploring new uses and stewarding models for Urban Forestry |
| How do people value trees? | A multiple stakeholder story-telling evidence-led analysis of the values of the urban treescape; our first Policy Innovation Insight |
| Transforming Enterprise Education Learning Experience Brief | An HE Learning Brief for a 1-3 hour class using Every Tree to explain Transformative Enterprise Education |
| TrEE Walk and Haiku Activity Poster | This poster presents a TrEE walk and talk, & haiku postcarding session |
| Story-Telling Activity Kit | 2ns Edition of our original primary schools Every Tree Story Telling toolkit |
Ecological Citizenship Tree Narratives in Urban Glasgow
Professor Elio Caccavale has kindly allowed us to share the course outline for his module on GSA’s MDes Design Innovation and Citizenship, which in 2026 focuses on Every Tree Tells a Story
The Treescape and Citizen Wellbeing
Dodd, Sarah, Juliette Wilson, Shahrzad Zeinali, Gillian Dick, Etive Currie, Michael Pierre Johnson, and James Bonner. “Every Tree Tells a Story: The treescape and citizen wellbeing.” Ecological Frontiers (2025).
This paper by the Every Team team outlines how the insights gained from analysis of our postcard dataset can inform policy.
It emphasizes the social value of trees in promoting holistic urban wellbeing and encouraging inclusive, story-based engagement in environmental planning.
Through qualitative analysis of 178 postcards, four key modes of well-being were identified: emotional , relational, physical, and spatial.
5 Proposals for Urban Forestry Innovation
Sarah’s 2024 Policy Innovation Insight proposes wild allotments, forest enterprise and innovation labs, woodland studios, and eco-education reserves.
How do people value trees?
A multiple stakeholder story-telling exploration
Transforming Enterprise Education Learning Experience Brief
Every Tree Tells a Story played an integral role in the 2022-2024 Transforming Enterprise Education (TrEE) Project. Funded by Erasmus +, TrEE explored innovative and inclusive approaches to transforming enterprise education towards ecojustice, social justice and hope. This January 2025 alearning experience brief, by Strathclyde’s Every Tree team, is aimed at teachers in Higher and Further Education, and combines theory with student self-reflection.
TrEE Walk and Haiku Activity Poster
This poster presents an Every Tree activity, during a June 2022 TrEE workshop in Glasgow. A tree walk and chat around campus was followed with a postcarding session, using haiku to frame reflections, feelings, meanings and insights about trees, our campus neighbours.
Primary School Story Telling Activity Kit
This is the second edition of Every Tree’s original toolkit for schools, first designed in the summer of 2021 by Donagh Horgan, Inge Birnie, and Sarah Dodd. It is a simple, entry level package opening up trees and their stories in an engaging fashion.
Every Tree Tells a Story 