Creativity, Culture, Community and Wellbeing

Research that takes place at the interface between creativity and the wellbeing of individuals and communities.

For example:

• Research into the applications and outcomes of creativity in therapies and social interventions. This line of inquiry explores and evaluates the impact of public and community art on health and well-being, including the role of the arts in delivering positive outcomes in health care, health care information and service
  
  
• Exploration of how culture and identity are linked to integration and place and site. Studies in this area explore the power of connectedness and identity and recuperation drawing in memory, history and geographical and physical connection to place and site, and the construction of 'belonging'.
  
  
• The practice of art as a means of human connection with, and realisation of, the natural world

Current Projects:

• Artmaking, Identity, Representations of Knowledge and Well-being
• The Role of Community Cultural Development Techniques in Establishing and Consolidating Sustainable Communities
• The Royal On The Move
• Dr Gillian Arrighi - Circus research first study of its kind
• Dr Imelda Burgan - Talking art
• Dr Philip Mathias - On song: chamber choir out to prove the benefits of singing
• Leanne Schubert - Challenging violence through creative intervention
• Professor Victor Emeljanow - Performances behind the wire