Research

Our work is dedicated to advancing an evidence-informed understanding of the efficacy of arts-based practices, creative approaches, and creative and cultural participatory activities in supporting physical and mental wellbeing and resilience.

Reflecting the landscape of the creative health field, CHWG is necessarily interdisciplinary, a joint venture run by the School of Communication & Creativity and the School of Health and Medical Sciences

Our research addresses a broad spectrum of contexts and needs. These range from uses of creative methods and arts-based practices to support mental wellbeing and neurodiverse experience, to the design of multisensory environments to support health.

Sample projects

CHIME

CHIME: Community Health intervention through Musical Engagement, funded by the NIHR, is working to evaluate a music-based programme co-developed to support pregnant women in The Gambia, South Africa, and Lesotho.

CREATE

CREATE Arts-based mental health research, using creative practices like music, theatre, dance, drawing, poetry is enjoyed by many young people and can bring new insights and understanding about adolescent mental health in ways that traditional, often adult-led, research methods cannot.

Visualising Pain

Visualising Pain is a unique series of group and individual workshops in Delhi exploring visualisations and conceptualisations of pain in India and the UK.