In 2017, my research with Arts for Health spread beyond the UK when a Churchill Travelling Fellowship enabled me to visit Finland, Belgium and the US to explore best practice for the arts and culture in healthcare. My report Art Thou Well? Creative Devolution of Mental Health in Greater Manchester, which involves 40 organisations and more than 300 people, assembles the myriad roles the arts could, and do, play in the service of mental health, and presents some of the most innovative,... more
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Issue 317: Cultural commissioning
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Cultural commissioning
13 Sep 2018Clinical psychologist Katherine Taylor explains how Greater Manchester is putting the arts at the heart of its mental health strategy, inspired by Finland’s positive experiences.
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13 Sep 2018Arts organisations are under growing pressure to demonstrate social impact. Emma Taylor-Collins explains how they can gain robust, high quality evidence to measure their success.
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13 Sep 2018Laura Bailey explains how Kent County Council is aiming to integrate arts and culture into its commissioned services across the board - even in waste management.
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13 Sep 2018A project run by the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and a housing provider started with cultural visits and ended with a full-scale theatre production. Inga Hirst tells the story.
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12 Sep 2018A circus artist helped older people and children develop their confidence and communicaton skills in workshops at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, writes Emma Gladstone.