Arts, health & wellbeing: reflections on a national seminar series and building a UK research network.
An account is provided of a UK national seminar series on Arts, Health and Wellbeing funded by the Economic and Social Research Council during 2012-13. Four seminars were organised addressing current issues and challenges facing the field. Details of the programme and its outputs are available online. A central concern of the seminar programme was to provide a foundation for creating a UK national network for researchers in the field to help promote evidence-based policy and practice. With funding from Lankelly Chase Foundation, and the support of the Royal Society for Public Health, a Special interest Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing was launched in 2015.
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham , Nottingham , UK.
Theo
T
Stickley
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow , Glasgow , UK.
Hester
H
Parr
Department of Geography, Durham University , Durham , UK.
Sarah
S
Atkinson
Centre for Arts as Wellbeing, University of Winchester , Winchester , UK.
Norma
N
Daykin
Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University , Folkestone , UK.
Stephen
S
Clift
SocArts Research Group, University of Exeter , Exeter , UK.
Tia
T
De Nora
School of Nursing and Caring Sciences, University of Central Lancashire , Preston , UK.
Sue
S
Hacking
Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University , Tunbridge Wells , UK.
Paul M
PM
Camic
Aesop , Brize Norton , UK.
Tim
T
Joss
Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University , Durham , UK.
Mike
M
White
College of Health and Social Care, University of Derby , Derby , UK.
Susan J
SJ
Hogan
Arts; health; network; research; wellbeing