Research and projects

Awarded and ongoing projects at Oxford University's Gardens, Libraries and Museums

• Optimising cultural provision to improve older people's wellbeing through social prescribing in the context of COVID-19: Realist review and evaluation, led by Oxford University’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), with GLAM, Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and Nuffield Department of Population Health, with UCL and the University of Plymouth, funded by the UKRI/AHRC COVID-19 response fund.
• Online Active Community Engagement (O-ACE), led by Dept of Psychiatry with Ashmolean (Susan McCormack), funded by Oxford University COVID-19 Research Response Fund  
• The potential of community-based volunteering in supporting NHS social prescribing, led by CEBM with GLAM (Joy Todd), funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR)
• Student Wellbeing and Experiential Learning Spaces (SWELS), led by UCL with GLAM (Lucy Shaw) and King’s College, funded by UKRI’s SMaRteN network  

Research papers and reports

• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW) (2017) Inquiry report: Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing - Second Edition
• Arts Council England (2018) Arts and culture in health and wellbeing and in the criminal justice system: A summary of evidence
• Bickerdike L, Booth A, Wilson PM, et al. (2017) 'Social prescribing: less rhetoric and more reality. A systematic review of the evidence'. BMJ Open 7: doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013384
• Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance: a national organisation representing all those who believe that cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing
• Culture & Health Research: research website of Prof Helen Chatterjee, University College London, a leading researcher in the field of culture and health
• Fancourt, Daisy and Saoirse Finn (2019) 'What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review'. Health Evidence Network synthesis report 67
• MARCH Network: Transforming our understanding of how social, cultural & community assets can support mental health
• NHS England: Social Prescribing: provides a definition and summary guide to social prescribing
• Oxford Mindfulness Centre: a ground-breaking clinical and neuroscience research on mindfulness and teaching new approaches to mindfulness-based interventions
• Oxford Wellbeing Centre: interdisciplinary research and teaching on wellbeing at Oxford
• Robinson, A. (2018) 'Social prescribing: coffee mornings, singing groups, and dance lessons on the NHS'. BMJ 363: doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4857 
• Royal College of General Practitioners (2018) Social prescribing key in prevention agenda, says RCGP
• Turk A, Mahtani KR, Tierney S, Shaw L, Webster E, Meacock T, Roberts N. (2020) Can gardens, libraries and museums improve wellbeing through social prescribing? A digest of current knowledge and engagement activities
• Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health: a world-leading research centre dedicated to providing innovative approaches to enabling health and well-being across the life course
• World Health Organisation (2019) Fact sheet - What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being in the WHO European Region?