Prosocial Place: Urban Design for Mental Health & Wellbeing

We Are

Prosocial Place is led by Graham Marshall and Rhiannon Corcoran. 

Graham is a landscape architect and urban designer.

Rhiannon is a part time academic at the University of Liverpool where she is a Chair of Psychology and Public Mental Health.

We are social regenerators, researchers, mentors and activators, bringing an experienced cross-disciplinary skill set to bear on complex urban challenges. 

We Deliver

• Community-Led Place Change - Supporting communities to lead meaningful, lasting change
• Design, Quality & the Built Environment - Creating high-quality, people-centred places
• Town Centres, Heritage & Culture - Strengthening identity, vitality, and local distinctiveness
• Learning, Leadership & Impact - Shaping practice through knowledge, insight, and influence

We Value

• People first: ensuring that people and community needs inform projects.

• Community at the centre: strengthening community as the foundation of meaningful place change.

• Equity and justice: addressing inequality, disadvantage, disempowerment, and the impacts of poverty.

• Care and safety: delivering friendly, inclusive, and trauma-informed ways of working.

• Stewardship & capability: building the skills and confidence of communities to care for and shape their own places.

• Partnership: connecting communities, public services, and the private sector.

• Respect for place: respecting every place as unique and understanding it in context.

• Integrated sustainability: seeing social, economic, and environmental wellbeing as connected and inseparable.

• Learning in action: bringing research and practice together to deliver lasting benefits.

• Wellbeing-led thinking: understanding how community wellbeing and social determinants shape responses to and outcomes in places.