Looking back: Creative Health 天美影视 at The University of Manchester
A look back on Creative Health research at The University of Manchester in the last few years, working with partners across the Greater Manchester city region.
is a key theme of the Creative Manchester research platform. In an important strand of work within this theme, we have worked closely with partners across the city region on research to support the implementation of the Greater Manchester Creative Health Strategy since its launch in November 2022.
AHRC-funded project (2022-2024) built a coalition of researchers and partners from across Greater Manchester to understand creative health better. This included working with Cartwheel Arts to understand more about communities鈥� access to creative health activities in their local area.
Findings from this research have been published in . We also wanted to understand the .
We are working on future publications from this research that reflect on the challenges of implementing a civic strategy and explore some of the distinctive approaches to creative health within Greater Manchester.
To help build research networks we held Creative Health events in June 2023 and June 2024. In 2023 the Organisations of Hope Symposium focused on networks between research, policy and practice in Greater Manchester.
In 2024, our also brought together other researchers from across the UK working on similar projects. Panels at this event focused on: ; ; and .
Attendees at the event also tried their hand at reflecting on creative health research through . Artist Domenique Brouwers ran a session and .
We are continuing to work closely with our partners at Greater Manchester Combined Authority Integrated Care Partnership, NHS Greater Manchester and other universities from across the region on an ambitious 3-year programme of work (2024-2027) supported by Arts Council England.
The Greater Manchester Creative Health Place Partnership will pioneer new ways of supporting residents to live as well as they can, by creating new, community-led approaches with culture and creativity at their heart. We have also developed strategic partnerships with key partners on creative health research, regionally and nationally, from , and in Greater Manchester, to and the #BeeWell.
Look out for future reports as this work develops! For more information on any of this work please contact: creative@manchester.ac.uk.
Resources and links:
- Greater Manchester Creative Health Strategy
- storybook
- Report on the
- Creative Health Symposium 2024: ; ; ; ; .
- Announcement of Place partnership 3-year programme of work (2024-2027) supported by Arts Council England