Research on colouring for wellbeing: Visualizing the academic network around 'Cognitive and Affective Benefits of Coloring: Two Randomized Controlled Crossover Studies' with @connectedpapers. Check out the graph to see related works! connectedpapers.com/main/24bdf2b38…

Enjoying finishing a book chapter on the visual arts and crafts for health and wellbeing for the upcoming Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health. I have organised the content into the following areas - and know much more about some of these than others!

Cognitive and Affective Benefits of Coloring routledge.altmetric.com/details/652885… Funny that this is my highest scoring article and 11th top scoring in the journal Art Therapy. I think it's because colouring is so accessible and so shared as a stress reduction technique.

NEW ARTICLE! Dance harnesses humanity in exercise from University of Toronto researchers Caitlin Elmslie, Lara McCallion, Julie Vaughan-Graham and Kara Patterson tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Vol 0, No 0 tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/10…

Check out this interesting #JMIR paper: Do daily happiness & nervousness fluctuate according to depressive and/or anxious symptoms in adolescents and young adults across three Latin American cities? an experience sampling study preprints.jmir.org/preprint/65732 #digitalhealth via JMIR Publications

New paper: Do daily happiness and nervousness fluctuate according to depressive and/or anxious symptoms in adolescents and young adults across three Latin American cities?: an experience sampling study preprints.jmir.org/preprint/65732 UWE Psych Sciences Research UWE Psychology

This International Women’s Day we are looking back at three important research papers which centre the lived experiences and creativity of women #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction

This #IWD2025 we acknowledge the expertise and labour involved by our editors to keep our journal going from strength to strength 💫 Thank you Dr Nicola Jane Holt Katherine Boydell Dr Sofia Vougioukalou Dr Chloe Asker Emma Heard (Health Promotion) Tricia King Adsit & Corvo

We'd also like to acknowledge and thank our consultants for statistics Feifei Bu Thomson, our consultants for systematic reviews Dr Deborah Edwards Dr Judit Csontos and picture editor Victoria Tischler for contributing their expertise #IWD2025

Happy to have sent the Routledge Handbook of Arts & Health to the publisher this morning - I hope that the copyediting stage goes smoothly. Thanks to all of the authors for their work and for helping to create such a comprehensive overview of the field. #artsandhealth

It's World #SocialPrescribingDay! 🎨To celebrate we have dived in to the Arts & Health archive to share two important papers you should revisit ⤵️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NEW ARTICLE! This paper explores the experiences and transition of a relational arts Academy to a virtual space for community artists with dementia from researchers at the University of Waterloo. doi.org/10.1080/175330…

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The use of the arts within social prescribing is expanding globally. But, what is art on prescription and what does the research on its efficacy suggest? blogs.uwe.ac.uk/psychological-…

The Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health has a release date :) routledge.com/Routledge-Hand…

Another goal achieved. Nurses getting seen, heard and published. Chapter 23 is me! Book won’t be out until October but officially ‘in press’ Paintings in Hospitals Royal College of Nursing Libraries Nursing Now Challenge FoNS Burdett Trust 💙

This blog post offers an excellent account of the evidence for the arts on prescription, and the challenges of evaluating its impact

Watch this space! Been delightful working on a chapter discussing The arts in the prevention and management of chronic health conditions in this comprehensive Handbook that feature the growing evidence and discusses policy and practice around the world! routledge.com/Routledge-Hand…

Interested to see our systematic review mentioned in this news article medscape.com/viewarticle/na… frontiersin.org/journals/publi…