Here it is! The evaluation report that Dr Nicola Jane Holt and myself have been working on: drawUWE.com/news. @SARSAS_uk @flying_project Viv Gordon The Green House @womankindbs2 Bristol Arts Development @BristolWV @bloor_claire Lorri Weaving carolyn hassan Dr Claire Stewart-Hall💙 @drrozhall

Published open access now, you can read 'Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas' freely online: doi.org/10.1080/175330…

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health (NJACH) is now available (open access): idunn.no/loi/njach

Submission alert 🔔Research Poetry special issue. 300 word proposal with author details to Prof Paul Camic [email protected] by 30 April. If accepted, manuscript submission due 1.10.23. Up to 6000 word submissions, different disciplines encouraged. tandfonline.com/action/journal…

Pleased to share a new open access🔓paper on art on prescription🎨exploring the mechanisms by which it works to improve wellbeing and loneliness: social bonding, the flow state and anxiety reduction. idunn.no/eprint/FCCHIUU… @NBT_Arts creativeshift UWE Psych Sciences Research UWE Psychology

Pleased to share a new open access🔓paper on art on prescription🎨exploring the mechanisms by which it works to improve wellbeing and loneliness: social bonding, the flow state and anxiety reduction. idunn.no/eprint/FCCHIUU… @NBT_Arts creativeshift

Check out some of our recent open access 🔓articles on 🎨💃🪇🎻the arts and health 🧵

Looking forward to Editing the Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health with Victoria Tischler Dr Sofia Vougioukalou and Elisabetta Corvo and putting together amazing work and writing in this field. More info here: drawuwe.com/news #artsandhealth The National Centre for Creative Health UWE Psychology @ArtsHealthSW

Looking forward to working with esteemed editors and authors to deliver this comprehensive and authoritative handbook on all things arts and health! 🎨🏥Arts & Health Journal @YLabWales Cardiff University School of Social Sciences

Why not browse our open access journal articles🔓on the arts and health, including the arts in the context of brain injury, trauma, psychosis and mental and physical health: tandfonline.com/action/showOpe…

Pleased to share a new narrative review on the relationship between artistic involvement and the schizophrenic spectrum, examining the 'false paradox' that artistic creativity is associated both with 'mental illness' and therapeutic benefit: link.springer.com/referenceworke…

Pleased to share a new paper from the healing arts in Kashmir project (artofhealing.org.uk), led by Emma Brannlund and Michael Buser, journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…… UWE Psych Sciences Research UWE Psychology #artsandhealth- Michael Buser Emmabrannlund @julie_mytton

#musictherapyconversations ep 83 is out today - Evelyn Mason talks about her Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research PhD research with carers of people with Huntingdon’s, and we explore Neurologic #musictherapy (NMT). Download, like subscribe! jazztoad.libsyn.com

The latest issue of the Arts and Health Journal is now available, with papers on psychodrama, dance, acting and improvising, and music and arts in schools 💃🪇🕺🎨🎻tandfonline.com/toc/rahe20/cur…

The chapters are now starting to roll in for the Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health- very exciting!! Can't wait to start reading them. Very grateful to everyone's hard work writing these contributions!

We have published some very interesting research and review articles in the Arts & Health journal @Arts_Health_Jn in March and February🎻🎨🕺🪇💃🖼️🎭🎶🎷🎹tandfonline.com/action/showAxa… Many of which are open access🔓🧵

Update! Recent articles from @Arts_Health_Jn published online in May & June.🎨🖼️💃🕺🎻🎹🎶🥁🪈 on Indian classical dance, theatre & infertility, theatre & disability, online art for anxiety, arts interventions for marginalised populations & narratives of HIV in Malawi. Links in🧵

An interesting newly published systematic review & meta-analysis of Arts on Prescription! Jensen A, Holt N, Honda S and Bungay H (2024) The impact of arts on prescription on individual health and wellbeing. frontiersin.org/journals/publi…

New publications from DRAW at UWE, including: systematic review of arts on prescription; using arts-based methods in research supervision (metaphor); and a critical review of poetry therapy for clients recovering from anorexia. drawuwe.com/publications