Publications & Events

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2020

GM i-THRIVE Youth Mental Health Arts & Culture Evaluation Kit
Download here.

2019

Keynote: Culture Politics International: Arts for Health,
Austrian Federal Chancellery, Department for European and International Cultural Policy
Report here.

Keynote: Arts and mental health innovation in children’s services
Future Health: Changing Approaches to Health & Social Care
Faculty of Health and Social Care, Chester University

Keynote: Wellbeing Residencies Think Tank, Riga Cirks

2018

Art Thou Well? Creative Devolution of Mental Health in Greater Manchester. Churchill Travelling Fellowship report based on practice in Finland and the USA.

2017

Practice Handbook: free download  Windle, Taylor & Parkinson DEMENTIA AND IMAGINATION: Research Informed Approaches to Visual Arts Programmes

Taylor, K., Windle, G., Howson, T. & Davenport, B. (2017) Dementia and Imagination: Review of end of project conference, Wellcome Trust, January 2017. British Psychological Society, Qualitative Methods in Psychology, Spring 2017.

Dementia and Imagination Website 
See an interview with Principle Investigator Dr Gill Windle here.

2016

Newman, A., Baber, M., O’Brien, D., Goulding, A., Hedd-Jones, C., Howson, T., Jones, C., Parkinson, C., Taylor, K., Tischler, V. & Windle, G (2016) Carrying out research across the arts and humanities and social sciences: developing the methodology for Dementia and Imagination. Cultural Trends.

Seminar at The Art of Mentalizing conference, by CNWL Arts in Healthcare
Pratt Institute, New York

Exhibition: Dementia and Imagination at The Crooked Spire, Chesterfield
Co-curated with Arts for Health Director Clive Parkinson and artists Joanna Dacombe and Gillian Brent, Nottingham Contemporary.

Exhibition: Dementia and Imagination at The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster.
Read about viewers’ reactions here.

Public engagment: Muddle Maze, Einstein’s Garden, Green Man Festival, Wales 2016
Research Artist Carol Hanson’s installation saw cartoon pensioners Doris and Ivor visit the Green Man music festival and collect people’s favourite memories. Through this fair we engaged over 1600 people.

Knowledge exchange: From Helsinki to Manchester: 
For one week, 8 Arts Development Officers from Finland were hosted by Arts for Health at MMU including a day long workshop for 100+ individuals working in research, practice and policy.

2015 

Taylor, K., Lobban, F., & Fletcher, I. (2015) Exploring the links between the phenomenology of creativity and bipolar disorder Journal of Affective Disorders.

Urban Psychosis
At the Holden Gallery, Urban Psychosis drew on the psychological effects of city living, and included work from John Baldessari, Matthew Buckingham and Sophie Calle, and a programme of evening lectures from Will Self, Professor Rhiannon Corcoran and Professor John Read.
Now Then Magazine article: Inner City Pressure.
and Guardian review.

Public engagement: Carry On Cartoon Camping, Einstein’s Garden, Green Man Festival, Wales 2015

Pre DClinPsy qualification (2010 – 2013)

Lobban, F., Taylor, K. & Jones, S. (2010) Bipolar is a double-edged sword : a qualitative study of the positive edge. Journal of Affective Disorders.

Lobban, F., Barrowclough, C., Jeffrey, S., Bucci, S. Taylor, K., Mallinson, S., Fitzsimmons, M. & Marshall, M. (2010) Understanding factors influencing substance use in people with recent onset psychosis: a qualitative study. Journal of Social Science and Medicine.

Hammerlsey, P., Taylor, K., McGovern, J. & Kinderman, P. (2010) Attributions for hallucinations in bipolar disorder. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

Tarrier, N., Taylor, K., & Gooding, P. (2008) Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Suicide Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Behaviour Modification.