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

Research Digest: The role of the artist in society (Centre for Cultural Value, 2023)
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)

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)

Research summaries from the Singing for Health Network

Repository for Arts & Health Resources

[The Repository is currently unavailable but will be returning soon.] The Repository for Arts & Health Resources focuses on evaluations and "grey literature", often commissioned by the organisations running the projects and written by external partners like universities.

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MARCH Research Corner

This collection of the latest research relevant to culture, health and wellbeing was active for three years until September 2021 and remains a vital archive of studies on a huge range of topics.