Category: research

by Kat Taylor April 30, 2022 1

Creativity and Wellbeing Week and beyond

Because ‘awareness weeks’ are meant to change the way we see an issue – not simply raise awareness and move on, this post highlights Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2022 and a number of related events and resources on the theme. Welcome!

by Kat Taylor March 31, 2022 1

Arts and Mental Health Bipolar Disorder mental health news research

Arts for the Blues builds creative interventions for depression

News on the development of a new, evidence-based creative psychological therapy for depression, and wider research findings.

by Kat Taylor July 29, 2021 0

Arts and Mental Health Health & Wellbeing music pandemic research Social Prescribing

Beyond the pandemic: music, maladies and mending

Starting with a major study on music behaviours and coping during the pandemic, this month’s blog is a music-themed explorationContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor February 24, 2021 1

Arts and Mental Health CAMHS Dance research Theatre trauma-informed

Building resilience and overcoming adversity through dance & drama

This blog brings together Odd Arts and Company Chameleon to reflect on their own learning from one another, and onContinue Reading

by Kat Taylor July 28, 2017 1

Academia arts and health news research

The International Arts Health Early Career Researcher Network, led by BBC New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt

This month I joined the International Arts Health Early Career Researchers Network (ECRN), led by Dr Daisy Fancourt.

by Kat Taylor July 24, 2017 2

arts and health Healthcare Policy research

Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing report launched

The Creative Health report launched this week from Westminster, forming a comprehensive platform for the field of arts and health.Continue Reading

by Kat Taylor April 13, 2017 0

Academia health research

13 Tips for health researchers

I’ve just been contacted by an old friend, asking if I could give her my top ten tips for research.Continue Reading

front page of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Creative Care Kit

Creative Care Kits, a number of Greater Manchester organisations led by GMCA worked together to create and distribute 22,000 Kit to young people without access to the internet during lockdown.A second Kity was also delivered in October 2020.

Three Minute Heroes launch

Image fro IG Kultur publication, Austria https://www.igkultur.at/artikel/arts-prescription-new-kind-medicine

Culture Politic International, Dec 2019 Keynote at EU policy workshop in Vienna

GM Arts, Culture and Mental Health feature month

The Winston Churchill Trust's Travelling Fellowship

Exhibition and talks from by Will Self and Profesor Jphn Read John Baldessari – Matthew Buckingham – Sophie Calle – Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Moyra Davey – Luke Fowler – Gillian Wearing – Catherine Yass The modern city has frequently been identified through its intensity – a busy and bustling environment of potentially creative and productive activity. For the spectator, this intensity can also tip over into a state in which reality is temporarily obscured. It is this finely balanced state which the exhibition explores, the condition of urban psychosis is presented as a recurring theme, a shadow which continues to haunt the city. July 2014

http://www.greenman.net/explore/areas/einsteins-garden/

Research Artist Carol Hanson's installation at Green Man: Doris and Ivor's Carry On Cartoon Camping

The Human Library is an international equalities movement that challenges prejudice and discrimination through social contact. It uses the language and mechanism of a library to facilitate respectful conversations that can positively change people’s attitudes and behaviours towards members of our communities who are at risk of exclusion and marginalisation. http://humanlibraryuk.org/

Dementia and Imagination exhibition in conjunction with Chesterfield's famous Crooked Spire

BBC Radio Sheffield

The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Public talk alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit by Margaret Edson, ‘Making Great Art Out Of Illness’.

Workshop space at Nottingham Contemporary

Research Artist Carol Hanson installation at Einstein’s Garden, Green Man festival