Research and projects
Awarded and ongoing projects with Oxford University's Gardens, Libraries and Museums
- Culture-led wellbeing: investigating the changing skills of the cultural workforce. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) collaborative doctoral studentship, led by University of Leicester in partnership with Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) (starts Oct 2021; currently recruiting)
- Online Active Community Engagement (O-ACE), led by Dept of Psychiatry with Ashmolean, Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum (OBGA) and Bodleian, funded by Oxford University COVID-19 Research Response Fund
- 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 University College London (UCL) and the University of Plymouth, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UKRI/AHRC) COVID-19 response fund
- The potential of community-based volunteering in supporting NHS social prescribing, led by CEBM with GLAM, funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR)
- The role of Gardens, Libraries and Museums in supporting well-being, led by CEBM in collaboration with GLAM, funded by University of Oxford Knowledge Exchange Seed Fund
- Student Wellbeing and Experiential Learning Spaces (SWELS), led by UCL with GLAM and King’s College, funded by UKRI’s SMaRteN network
Research papers and reports
- 'Arts and culture in health and wellbeing and in the criminal justice system: A summary of evidence' by Arts Council England (2018)
- 'Can gardens, libraries and museums improve wellbeing through social prescribing? A digest of current knowledge and engagement activities' by Turk A, Mahtani KR, Tierney S, Shaw L, Webster E, Meacock T, Roberts N. (2020)
- 'Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing - Second Edition.' Inquiry Report by All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW) (2017)
- 'Social prescribing: coffee mornings, singing groups, and dance lessons on the NHS' by Robinson, A. (2018)
- 'Social prescribing key in prevention agenda, says RCGP' in Royal College of General Practitioners (2018)
- 'Social prescribing: less rhetoric and more reality. A systematic review of the evidence' by Bickerdike L, Booth A, Wilson PM, et al. (2017)
- 'What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review' by Fancourt, Daisy and Saoirse Finn (2019) Health Evidence Network synthesis report 67
- 'What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being in the WHO European Region?' Fact sheet by World Health Organisation (2019)
Useful links
- 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
- 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 Social Prescribing Research Network: improving health and wellbeing through interdisciplinary evidence-based research and innovation
- Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre: interdisciplinary research and teaching on wellbeing at Oxford
- 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
