Research and evaluation

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This page will help you find evidence of how creativity and culture works in relation to health and wellbeing. If you want to evaluate your own work, please click here.

Key evidence summaries

Culture and Heritage Capital: Monetising the Impact of Culture and Heritage on Health and Wellbeing (DCMS/Frontier Economics, 2024)
Creative Health Review (The National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health & Wellbein g, 2023)
Research Digests (Centre for Cultural Value, 2022-2024)
DCMS report: The role of the arts in improving health and wellbeing (Fancourt, Warren & Aughterson, September 2020)
Heritage, Health & Wellbeing (the Heritage Alliance, 2020)
World Health Organization Synthesis Report (Fancourt & Finn, 2019)
Creative Health: The Arts for Health & Wellbeing (All-Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, Health & Wellbeing, 2017)
Arts and culture in health and wellbeing and in the criminal justice system: a summary of evidence (Arts Council England, 2018)
Heritage and Wellbeing: The State of the Evidence (What Works Centre for Wellbeing, 2019)
Museums as Spaces for Wellbeing: A Second Report (National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing, 2018)

NCCH Research Roundup 2025

NCCH Research Roundup 2026 - deadline 13 December

The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) is calling for submissions to the Creative Health Research Round-Up 2026 — the second edition of a report that’s fast becoming a go-to evidence resource for the sector.

NCCH research roundup 2025

This Research Round-Up brings together a wide range of creative health research, practice-based evaluation, and cross-systems strategy outputs published in 2025. It is intended as both a record of activity in the field and a navigational tool: supporting practitioners, researchers, policymakers and commissioners to understand what is being explored, how knowledge is being generated, and where future effort might be most usefully directed.

Read the roundup here

Centre for Cultural Value Research Digests

The CCV research digests explore the evidence to present a snapshot of current research and thinking in a variety of areas.

Creativity in a health crisis: What does the research tell us?

Watch this conversation from Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2023 with chaired by Rosie Dow, Prof Helen Chatterjee and Dr Karen Mak (UCL)

Evidence can take many forms. Please refer to our Case Studies and to Learning from Experience for other ways of telling the story of culture, health and wellbeing. We have also been gathering evidence of the work happening across the sector since the lockdown, which you can find here .

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