MARCH: Social, Cultural and Community Assets for Mental Health
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Behavioural Science and Health
Abstract
The 'MARCH' Network proposes that Assets for Resilient Communities lie at the heart of Mental Health (M-ARC-H) and is dedicated to advancing research into the impact of these assets in enhancing public mental health and wellbeing, preventing mental illness and supporting those living with mental health conditions. Specifically, it will advance our understanding of the impact of social, cultural and community assets including the arts, culture, heritage, libraries, parks, community gardens, allotments, leisure centres, volunteer associations, social clubs and community groups, of which there are an anticipated 1 million in the UK. The network will bring together a Disciplinary Expert Group of researchers with a Policy Group of major national policy bodies, a Patient Public Involvement Group of national mental health charities, and a Community Engagement Group of national organisations. Across three years, our network will unite research with policy and practice to tackle critical questions of research priorities, methods, and implementation in this field; understand and resolve barriers to mobilising community assets; and provide training and support to the next generation of researchers.
Specifically, our network will address questions organised in two core work streams (WS):
WS1. Cross-disciplinary research and challenges: (a) What evidence is there, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, for how and why community assets impact on public health and wellbeing and the lives of those living with mental health problems, and where are the gaps for future research? (b) How can we use a cross-disciplinary approach to provide meaningful data to different stakeholders and users?
WS2. Equity of engagement and access innovation: (a) Who amongst the UK population, demographically and geographically, currently engages with these programmes and how does participation vary dependent on mental health? (b) What are the current barriers and enablers to engagement at an individual, organisational and policy level and how can we develop innovative approaches to enhance engagement, especially amongst the vulnerable?
This research work will be complemented by a rich portfolio of impact, engagement and training activities (see 'Impact Summary').
This network aligns with strategic priorities of the AHRC and ESRC as well as having a secondary relevance to the priorities of the MRC (through its consideration of the role of community assets and social prescribing to support medical approaches to mental health), NERC (through its exploration of the impact of green spaces) and EPSRC (through its focus on the opportunities provided by technology for driving research forwards). It has also been designed in response to the Network Plus Research Agenda. In addition to the objectives already discussed in the prior Je-S section, it is responsive to many of the mental health challenges cited in the agenda. For example, the call specification noted that only 25% of people with mental health problems receive ongoing treatment. Whilst there are recognised economic and resource constraints with delivering sufficient mental health services, this Network proposes to focus on the role that existing community assets could play in providing support to a much wider range of people in the UK including those on waiting lists. As another example, the call specification raised that 70% of children and adolescents with mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at an earlier age. This Network will involve working with policy makers and community organisations to see how research could help overcome barriers to access with the aim of engaging more young people and those who are hard to reach. Overall, the network will seek to understand and support future research into how community assets could be mobilised to encourage more resilient individuals and communities with a greater understanding of and capacity for self-management of mental health.
Specifically, our network will address questions organised in two core work streams (WS):
WS1. Cross-disciplinary research and challenges: (a) What evidence is there, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, for how and why community assets impact on public health and wellbeing and the lives of those living with mental health problems, and where are the gaps for future research? (b) How can we use a cross-disciplinary approach to provide meaningful data to different stakeholders and users?
WS2. Equity of engagement and access innovation: (a) Who amongst the UK population, demographically and geographically, currently engages with these programmes and how does participation vary dependent on mental health? (b) What are the current barriers and enablers to engagement at an individual, organisational and policy level and how can we develop innovative approaches to enhance engagement, especially amongst the vulnerable?
This research work will be complemented by a rich portfolio of impact, engagement and training activities (see 'Impact Summary').
This network aligns with strategic priorities of the AHRC and ESRC as well as having a secondary relevance to the priorities of the MRC (through its consideration of the role of community assets and social prescribing to support medical approaches to mental health), NERC (through its exploration of the impact of green spaces) and EPSRC (through its focus on the opportunities provided by technology for driving research forwards). It has also been designed in response to the Network Plus Research Agenda. In addition to the objectives already discussed in the prior Je-S section, it is responsive to many of the mental health challenges cited in the agenda. For example, the call specification noted that only 25% of people with mental health problems receive ongoing treatment. Whilst there are recognised economic and resource constraints with delivering sufficient mental health services, this Network proposes to focus on the role that existing community assets could play in providing support to a much wider range of people in the UK including those on waiting lists. As another example, the call specification raised that 70% of children and adolescents with mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at an earlier age. This Network will involve working with policy makers and community organisations to see how research could help overcome barriers to access with the aim of engaging more young people and those who are hard to reach. Overall, the network will seek to understand and support future research into how community assets could be mobilised to encourage more resilient individuals and communities with a greater understanding of and capacity for self-management of mental health.
Planned Impact
A rich suite of events and activities map onto the research in the two Work Streams including two Impact and Engagement Objectives (IEO) and an Impact Development Objective (IDO).
IEO1 will focus on connecting research with a) policy and b) practice with the aim of advancing best practice and encouraging high quality evaluations and research. In partnership with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing and Mental Health Foundation, the network will turn its four reports into policy briefings and disseminate to the Policy Group and wider policy stakeholders (IEO1a). The network will also co-host meetings with the Social Prescribing Network and NHS England, help to assess the Royal Society for Public Health community awards to celebrate best practice and develop bespoke activities with further Community Engagement Group partners (IEO1b). Our short-term aim is that by 2021, concise reports on social, cultural and community engagement and mental health are available to all major policy stakeholders and national practice organisations, with the medium-term aim that mental health begins to be included in the strategies and programmes of Community Engagement Groups, so that in the long-term the value of community assets is drawn on more to support mental health in the UK.
IEO2 will focus on advancing a) public engagement, b) stigma reduction and c) access innovation. We have a suite of programmes including a Citizen Science project planned with the BBC to raise public awareness about the importance of community assets for mental health and will explore other media opportunities utilising existing connections (IEO2a). We will work with the Community Engagement Group to look at how activities themselves such as singing, performance and art could be used to reduce stigma associated with mental illness (IEO2b). And in partnership with NESTA we will test the recommendations for access innovation with individual local community programmes using NESTA's 100-day rapid cycling process. Our short-term aim is that across the life-time of the Network, there is enhanced awareness of the impact of community assets for mental health amongst the general public, which, along with the development of more targeted access innovation programmes, will generate engagement in the medium term. In the long term, this should lead to more geographically and demographically balanced inclusion, especially by those with mental health conditions.
Finally, IDO1 is about training the next generation of researchers to advance cross-disciplinary research in close partnership with community organisations and healthcare professionals. Building on the existing 700-person Early Career Research Network for Arts, Humanities, Health and Medicine led by Fancourt we will continue to support regional networking events, online resources and a podcast series. We will also work with the Royal Society for Public Health to develop a new online training programme to support those starting their careers doing cross-disciplinary work in social, cultural and community assets and mental health. Our short-term aim is that ECRs are provided with a much stronger national structure to engage with others working on similar areas, breaking through traditional disciplinary silos, and the chance to apply for £80,000 grants to seed fund their own research. In the medium term, our aim is that ECRs are better trained and given stronger platforms to develop their research skills in partnership with community organisations, to the simultaneous benefit of the wider community sector. Long-term this should provide a connected and engaged new generation of researchers to advance work in this field, meaning that overall this Network both responds to the immediate Work Streams posed in this application and also develops research expertise especially amongst younger researchers to be able to tackle the critical Work Streams of the future.
This work is supported by £225,000 in kind from our partners.
IEO1 will focus on connecting research with a) policy and b) practice with the aim of advancing best practice and encouraging high quality evaluations and research. In partnership with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing and Mental Health Foundation, the network will turn its four reports into policy briefings and disseminate to the Policy Group and wider policy stakeholders (IEO1a). The network will also co-host meetings with the Social Prescribing Network and NHS England, help to assess the Royal Society for Public Health community awards to celebrate best practice and develop bespoke activities with further Community Engagement Group partners (IEO1b). Our short-term aim is that by 2021, concise reports on social, cultural and community engagement and mental health are available to all major policy stakeholders and national practice organisations, with the medium-term aim that mental health begins to be included in the strategies and programmes of Community Engagement Groups, so that in the long-term the value of community assets is drawn on more to support mental health in the UK.
IEO2 will focus on advancing a) public engagement, b) stigma reduction and c) access innovation. We have a suite of programmes including a Citizen Science project planned with the BBC to raise public awareness about the importance of community assets for mental health and will explore other media opportunities utilising existing connections (IEO2a). We will work with the Community Engagement Group to look at how activities themselves such as singing, performance and art could be used to reduce stigma associated with mental illness (IEO2b). And in partnership with NESTA we will test the recommendations for access innovation with individual local community programmes using NESTA's 100-day rapid cycling process. Our short-term aim is that across the life-time of the Network, there is enhanced awareness of the impact of community assets for mental health amongst the general public, which, along with the development of more targeted access innovation programmes, will generate engagement in the medium term. In the long term, this should lead to more geographically and demographically balanced inclusion, especially by those with mental health conditions.
Finally, IDO1 is about training the next generation of researchers to advance cross-disciplinary research in close partnership with community organisations and healthcare professionals. Building on the existing 700-person Early Career Research Network for Arts, Humanities, Health and Medicine led by Fancourt we will continue to support regional networking events, online resources and a podcast series. We will also work with the Royal Society for Public Health to develop a new online training programme to support those starting their careers doing cross-disciplinary work in social, cultural and community assets and mental health. Our short-term aim is that ECRs are provided with a much stronger national structure to engage with others working on similar areas, breaking through traditional disciplinary silos, and the chance to apply for £80,000 grants to seed fund their own research. In the medium term, our aim is that ECRs are better trained and given stronger platforms to develop their research skills in partnership with community organisations, to the simultaneous benefit of the wider community sector. Long-term this should provide a connected and engaged new generation of researchers to advance work in this field, meaning that overall this Network both responds to the immediate Work Streams posed in this application and also develops research expertise especially amongst younger researchers to be able to tackle the critical Work Streams of the future.
This work is supported by £225,000 in kind from our partners.
Organisations
- University College London, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon (Co-funder)
- AHRC, United Kingdom (Co-funder)
- Medical Research Council (Co-funder)
- EPSRC, United Kingdom (Co-funder)
- Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Crafts Council, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of East London (Collaboration)
- University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Bradford Institute for Health Research (Collaboration)
- Falmouth University, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Historic England, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Royal College of Music (RCM) (Collaboration)
- What Works Centre for Wellbeing (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Mental Health Foundation, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Public Health England, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Fed of City Farms & Community Gardens (Project Partner)
- Royal Horticultural Society, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- The Heritage Lottery Fund, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Arts Council England, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- AGE UK, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Dept for Env Food & Rural Affairs DEFRA, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Youth Music Theatre UK (Project Partner)
- Natural England, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Beyond Skin (Project Partner)
- MindOut (Project Partner)
- The Wildlife Trusts (UK), United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Greenwich Leisure Limited (Project Partner)
- Sing Up Foundation (Project Partner)
- The Reading Agency (Project Partner)
- Wonder Foundation (Project Partner)
- Voluntary Arts (Project Partner)
- Think Local Act Personal (Project Partner)
- Action for Children, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Social Prescribing Network (Project Partner)
- Rastafari Movement UK (Project Partner)
- Coin Street Community Builders (Project Partner)
- The Children's Society, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Action for Happiness (Project Partner)
- Live Music Now (Project Partner)
- The Eden Project, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Nesta, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Libraries Unlimited (Project Partner)
- Youth Music (Project Partner)
- Museums Association, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Royal Society for Public Health (Project Partner)
- Creative Scotland, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- NHS Health Scotland (Project Partner)
- Mosaic Youth (Project Partner)
- Public Health Wales (Project Partner)
- Department for Culture Media and Sport, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- UK Theatre (Project Partner)
- Community Dance (Project Partner)
- Local Government Association (Project Partner)
- NCVO (Project Partner)
- Arts Council of Wales, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- The National Trust, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- The Listening Place (Project Partner)
- Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance (Project Partner)
- Mind (Project Partner)
- Community Catalysts Ltd (Project Partner)
- BTCV (Project Partner)
Publications
Aesen, E
(2020)
Discursive construction of the patient in online clinical cancer pathways information
in Journal of Advanced Nursing
Atanasova D
(2019)
Mental health and the media: From illness to wellbeing
in Sociology Compass
Aughterson H
(2020)
Social prescribing for individuals with mental health problems: a qualitative study of barriers and enablers experienced by general practitioners.
in BMC family practice
Bu F
(2022)
Comparing the mental health trajectories of four different types of keyworkers with non-keyworkers: 12-month follow-up observational study of 21 874 adults in England during the COVID-19 pandemic.
in The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
Bu F
(2021)
Rates and predictors of uptake of mental health support during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of 26,720 adults in the UK in lockdown.
in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Bu F
(2020)
Loneliness during a strict lockdown: Trajectories and predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 38,217 United Kingdom adults.
in Social science & medicine (1982)
Bungay H
(2021)
Arts, creativity and health.
in Public health
| Description | We have worked with over 300 members of the network to co-produce a new Research Agenda for the field, which is due to be published shortly in British Journal of Psychiatry Open. This highlights the research gaps that you have identified that most urgently need filling. We have used this research agenda to guide our own distribution of plus funds. We have worked with the MARCH Disciplinary Expert Group to identify "mechanisms of action" that link leisure engagement to mental and physical health, in total mapping over 600 mechanisms that have been either proposed or tested and have synthesised these into a new framework using the lens of complexity science. The paper will be published shortly in Lancet Psychiatry. We have published an evidence synthesis report with the World Health Organisation that brings together the findings from over 3,000 studies on arts and health. The report was named the Global Aesthetic Achievement of 2019. We have also produced follow-on policy briefings for WHO and the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport. We have spoken about our work to the UN, UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments), OECD (Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development) and several All Party Parliamentary Groups. We have been working to map the barriers and motivators to social, cultural and community engagement and have run focus groups and interviews with network members including individuals with lived experience of mental illness, GPs involved in social prescribing, and community organisations. We've also analysed data from national datasets and published our findings in six scientific papers. We have worked closely with the BBC's annual 'Get Creative' Festival, supporting the communication of research to the public. This continued during the pandemic, with the festival promoting ways to remain creative at home. We ran two major BBC Citizen Science experiments involving over 98,000 people, with the data now publicly available for analysis. We are working closely with community organisations to support their work with policy briefings developed from original MARCH research, and a free online training course on community assets and mental health to be developed next year. Amongst our members, 14% say they have increased their own community engagement since joining MARCH. We have worked to support the national roll-out of social prescribing. We hosted the policy conference 'Arts on Prescription' in November 2019 - a sold-out event that featured speakers including James Sanderson Director of Personalised Care for NHS England and Miranda Wolpert Head of Mental Health at Wellcome, along with representatives from Public Health England, several arts organisations and individuals with lived experience. We have also collaborated with NHS England undertaking the first analyses of NHS data from London looking at the reach and impact of the social prescribing roll-out, written a policy briefing on social prescribing for DCMS, and presented at a number of social prescribing conferences and policy days. We also supported ECR and MBBS student Henry Aughterson in applying for PhD funding from UCLH, which has led to a 3-year funded PhD exploring the barriers and enablers of social prescribing within primary care in the UK. In March, we responded rapidly to the unfolding pandemic by drawing on the expertise and connections within the MARCH Network to establish the COVID-19 Social Study (the largest study into the psychological and social impact of the pandemic) and the COVID-MINDS Network (an international network of over 140 longitudinal mental health studies from 70 countries). The MARCH Network's COVID-19-related research has led to over 70 reports and scientific papers produced since April 2020. We have communicated this work weekly to the Cabinet Office, multiple government departments, the ONS Covid Response Unit, the COVID Commission, PHE, the UN, WHO, several APPGs and dozens of community and third sector organisations. |
| Exploitation Route | Yes. The work of the network is being taken forward by special interest groups and the publications, reports and new theory developments we have made are having a substantial impact on work in the field. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Description | Supporting work of community organisations Supporting public understanding and individual engagement Supporting policy |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Advisory committee for the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| Impact | Resource useful for optimising arts and cultural interventions for mental health, particularly for practitioners delivering these activities. |
| URL | https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/surviving-thriving-building-model-sustainable-practice-... |
| Description | Attendance at Arts Council England roundtable: identifying gaps in arts & health research |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a national consultation |
| Description | COVID-19 evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Study findings have been shared weekly with cabinet office, multiple government departments, NHS England, the World Health Organisation, Public Health England, and hundreds of community organisations. We have also given invited talks to Cabinet Office, the Government's Advisory Group on suicide prevention, the Government Tackling Loneliness Network, the Government Covid Commision, the APPG for loneliness, the APPG for Compassionate Politics, The ONS Covid Response Unit, and several parliamentary committees. Daisy has been invited to join the Lancet Covid Commission Mental Health Task Force and the Government Office for Science Plenary Task Force led by Sir Patrick Vallance. The study has been supporting policy and practice decisions in a number of ways including data being used: • To plan for NHS mental health service demand and funding for the winter • To support the development of vaccine communications plans through the London Assembly • In SAGE documents: o To understand and map changing compliance levels and plan for sustaining adherence o To make decisions on shutting and reopening of large venues o To highlight the challenges of falling trust in government on the management of the pandemic o To understand the behavioural considerations on mass testing] o To identify inequalities in mental health driven by the pandemic o To plan for social support during local lockdowns o To plan for the reintroduction of measures to slow infection We also have reports of dozens of third sector organisations such as the Samaritans and Red Cross using the data to plan for their own activities to support individuals during the pandemic. |
| Description | DCMS consultancy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Gave evidence to a government review |
| Description | DfE Consultancy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a national consultation |
| Description | Evidence to DCMS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Gave evidence to a government review |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/734/73407.htm |
| Description | Invited briefing to Royal College of General Practitioners: : Crawford, P. 'Creative public health: Culture as a shadow health service. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a national consultation |
| Description | Invited member of Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS): Cultural and Creative Industries and Covid-19 Fourth Symposium: Culture, Health and Wellbeing (Paul Crawford and Lorna Probert) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a national consultation |
| Description | Member of the advisory group for CultureForHealth |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| URL | https://cultureactioneurope.org/projects/cultureforhealth/ |
| Description | Member of the advisory group for UCL research project - 'Online Art Therapy for Women and Girls affected by Domestic Abuse' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| Description | Membership of Advisory Group of Centre for Cultural Value |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| Description | Membership of DCMS Advisory Committee on Valuing of Cultural and Heritage Assets |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| Description | Named contributor to Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Gave evidence to a government review |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7788... |
| Description | WHO Health 2020 Report |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/413016/Intersectoral-action-between-the-arts-and... |
| Description | WHO Health Evidence Synthesis Report |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/fact-sheets/2019/fact-sheet-what-is-the-evidence-on... |
| Description | 'Dance/Connect: Applying the Social Cure' Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Network Funding Call #2: Interventions |
| Amount | £14,012 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | ActEarly: a City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing |
| Amount | £49,970 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC_PC_18002 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 11/2018 |
| Description | ActEarly: a city collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing |
| Amount | £6,600,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC_PC_18002 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | Arts and Health Scoping Research |
| Amount | £120,867 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/T007184/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Description | Arts, Place & Wellbeing |
| Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | CO-Pact. Co-design of interventions to reduce mental health act section use including photovoice. NIHR PRP |
| Amount | £700,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR PRP Bhui |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | COVID-Mind: Mental Health during Covid-19 |
| Amount | £411,826 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 221400/Z/20/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Description | Care for Music - an ethnography of music in late life and end of life settings |
| Amount | £478,531 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/S003592/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | Co-production for Sustainable Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Kenya: A Cultural Animation Approach |
| Amount | £217,163 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Combating Social Isolation through Creative and Community Engagement: COVID and beyond (Community COVID). |
| Amount | £207,457 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/V008595/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | EpiArts (ii) |
| Amount | $125,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | Bloomberg |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | EpiArts (iii) |
| Amount | $50,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | One Florida Consortium |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | EpiArts Lab (i) |
| Amount | $150,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | National Endowment for the Arts |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | Island Life and Death, Leverhulme Major Fellowship |
| Amount | £81,020 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MRF-2021-012 |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Mitigating the Inequitable Effects of COVID-19 Using Community and Cultural Assets |
| Amount | £49,509 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Optimising museum provision to improve older people's wellbeing as part of social prescribing, in the context of COVID-19: Realist review and evaluation |
| Amount | £279,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | PhD studentship on social prescribing |
| Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College Hospital |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Philip Leverhulme Prize |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | Psychological & social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - Nuffield Foundation |
| Amount | £337,302 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Description | SHAPER: Scaling Arts-Health Programmes: Efficacy and Implementation Researcher |
| Amount | £1,999,998 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 19425/Z/19/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Scaling-up Health-Arts Programmes: Implementation and Effectiveness Research (SHAPER) |
| Amount | £1,999,998 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 219425/Z/19/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Social Prescribing |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | NHS England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 04/2020 |
| Description | UCL Internal GCRF Small Grant |
| Amount | £78,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 06/2020 |
| Description | WELLCOMM |
| Amount | £299,904 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T006994/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | What's Up With Alex (WUWA)? Animated Storytelling for Mental Health Literacy Among Young People |
| Amount | £996,475 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/T003804/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Title | BBC Get Creative Dataset |
| Description | Data from 48,000 people on creative activities and mental health collected as part of a citizen science experiment |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Three papers have been published to date using the data. |
| URL | https://osf.io/ysg8x/ |
| Title | Feel Good Test |
| Description | Dataset from citizen science experiment involving >40,000 people with the BBC |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Papers have been published from this dataset and extensive media and public engagement |
| URL | https://osf.io/pe573/ |
| Description | A new special interest research group on Singing and Mental Health |
| Organisation | Royal College of Music (RCM) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitated the development of this special interest research group on Singing and Mental Health, with 73 organisations from a range of backgrounds. Co-leads were chosen to run the group, which includes Dave Camlin from the Royal College of Music, Katherine Zeserson (freelance consultant) and Philipa Rieve (Snape Maltings). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Two sandpit events have been held, with over 60 interdisciplinary members to develop research proposals for further funding. T |
| Impact | The outcomes from the sandpit events will be reported in the next submission. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | ATTUNE: Creative Arts to tackle adverse childhood experiences |
| Organisation | Falmouth University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I am leading a consortium including KCL, UCL, QMUL, Falmouth, Kent, Leeds, Oxford, NGOs and local government. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have developed two working papers: 1) digital interventions and arts interventions for young people experiencing adversity; and 2) ethical issues in participatory research |
| Impact | An MRC application, we have progressed to the second stage. Plus two working paper, listed above. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | New special interest group on interdisciplinary research methods |
| Organisation | Liverpool John Moores University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | One day interdisciplinary panel meeting, to develop research ideas, and a book proposal bringing colleagues from Leeds, Liverpool, London from practitioners to researchers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Presentations, shared abstract of talks. Plans to hold a further intensive workshop. |
| Impact | In preparation, a briefing is being produced. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | New special interest research group on Arts, Crafts and Mental Health |
| Organisation | Crafts Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Facilitation of partnerships in a range of areas: Dance and Mental Health; Haptic Engagement and Mental Health; Creative Ageing and Mental Health; Spoken Word/Hip-Hop and Mental Health (a meeting of this group to happen in Spring 2020) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contribution on discussions for research proposals. |
| Impact | Still in development - applications for MARCH Network Plus Funds will arise from this group |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | New special interest research group on Digital Community Assets and Mental Health |
| Organisation | University of East London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitated the development of this special interest research group and recruited members to the interdisciplinary team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ian Tucker of University of East London and Jacob Diggle of Mind are co-leading this special interest research group, and have received Sandpit Funds from the MARCH Network to hold a day-long meeting to brainstorm research proposals. |
| Impact | Outcomes from the special interest research group meeting on 6 March 2020 will be reported in our next submission. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | New special interest research group on Historic Environment and Mental Health |
| Organisation | Historic England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Facilitated the development of a interdisciplinary special interest research group led by Linda Monckton, Head of Wellbeing and Inclusion Strategy at Historic England. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Linda with contributions from Lucy Shaw at the University of Oxford are bringing together an interdisciplinary team to develop research proposals around the historic environment and mental health. The group have received MARCH Network Sandpit Funds to host a one a one-day seminar to brainstorm research proposals for further funding - this is taking place on Monday 24 February. |
| Impact | The outcomes from the meeting on 24 February will be shared in the next Research Fish submission. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | New special interest research group on Nature, Outdoors and Mental Health |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | One day interdisciplinary meeting to develop research ideas, a second meeting in April being planned Received MARCH Network sandpit funds to run a interdisciplinary meeting to develop research ideas on 25 February 2020 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Presentations, discussion, sharing of latest research with plans to apply for further funding |
| Impact | In preparation - briefing documents are being produced |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | New special interest research group on Shared Reading: Literature, Libraries and Mental Health |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Facilitated the development of this special interest research group, finding co-leads (Professor Emeritus Phil Davis of University of Liverpool and Kerry Wilson of Liverpool John Moores University) and recruiting an interdisciplinary group of members. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Professor Davis will be leading the group, with the hope of hosting initially developing ideas via our online discussion forum, Basecamp, with the view to hosting a meeting in the summer of 2020. |
| Impact | A plan of action/ manifesto is in development, in consultation with the newly formed Steering Group. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | UK-PRP |
| Organisation | Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) |
| Department | Born in Bradford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Due to the MARCH Network receiving funding, Fancourt was invited to be a co-investigator on the UK-PRP ActEarly programme led by Bradford and UCL. THe grant of £6.6m was received and £137,000 has been given to the MARCH Network to hire a post-doctoral researcher to undertake evaluations of the roll-out of an Arts Council Creative People & Places programme in Bradford. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fancourt will hire a post-doc to complete new research as part of ActEarly and the Arts Council England CPP programme. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary - public health, psychology, social science, medicine, arts, humanities. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | What Works Centre for Wellbeing - new research collaboration |
| Organisation | What Works Centre for Wellbeing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Through MARCH we have developed a formal partnership with WWCW that has resulted in a new grant of £300,000 from ESRC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | WWCW have supported the development of MARCH as a network well as our new application. |
| Impact | Funding of £300,000 from ESRC |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | #ArtsCan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Fancourt led a half-day workshop for arts and cultural organisations on the impact of arts on health, including work from the MARCH Network, which led to increased knowledge of the evidence base reported and increased collaboration between cultural partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Academic presentation to scholars and arts professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Symposium on contribution of culture to social wellbeing: organised by Arts Council England, April 3rd, Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Academic presentation to scholars and arts professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote for Alberta Museums Association conference about Museums and Health, September 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.museums.ab.ca/what-we-do/annual-conference/conference-2019.aspx |
| Description | Academic presentation to scholars and arts professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Arts and Health Workshop organsied by The Cultural Capuital Exchangs, London, April 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Academic presentation to scholars and heritage professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation at conference in Ghent, Belgium as part of: Participation in cultural heritage for mental health recovery Conference, November 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Academic presentation to scholars and heritage professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote for Medical Museion Conference at University of Copenhagen, May 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Academic presentation to scholars and students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote at Nottingham University Health Humanities Conference January 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Academic presentation to scholars and students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UCL IAS seminar as part of Treatment and Wellbeing in an Aging Society: Disciplinary intersections between Literature, Art and Health event March 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Academic presentation to scholars, medical and arts professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | APPG Arts and Health event for the SW Academic Health Sciences Partnership on Social Prescirbing, May 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Academic presentation to scholars, medical and arts professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Central Saint Martins and UCL joint workshop on arts, health and wellbeing, May 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Approaches to capturing value of cultural assets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview for Arts Professional on government plans for valuation of cultural assets |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Arts Council England Strategy Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fancourt presented on MARCH to key staff from Arts Council England, to inform their funding activity relating to arts and mental health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Arts4Dementia Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Launch of Arts4Dementia's Arts4Brain Health SP report |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://arts4dementia.org.uk/our-presidents-blog/ |
| Description | BBC Breakfast Film |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fancourt was filmed for a BBC Breakfast piece on creativity and mental health, which led to more organisations signing up to MARCH and reporting collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BBC Proms Plus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fancourt spoke at the BBC Proms for a live audience on music and mental health and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BBC Radio 4 interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview as part of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholia on social prescribing and health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BBC Radio London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio London interview about music festivals and health for BBC World Music Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BBC Radio London interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio London interview about social prescribing and health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Blog with Emerald Press |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The following blog discussed the importance of mutual recovery in creative practice and their role as assets for managing the wellbeing of society. Crawford, P. (2020) Arts for Health: creativity & coronavirus. 14 May. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/topics/coronavirus/blog/arts-health-creativity-coronavirus |
| Description | British Academy Loneliness Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fancourt spoke for a public engagement event at the British Academy on arts and loneliness, which led to new contacts with policymakers and reported new awareness from the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Centre for Cultural Value, Culture on Referral workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sharing data and findings from mutliple studies on theipotential of social prescribing to address health inequity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cheltenham Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fancourt spoke for a public engagement event on singing and mental health that was broadcast on BBC World Service |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cheshire & Merseyside Baby Week 2020 (NHS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research from the MARCH Network given online as part of the launch of the National Women and Children's Creative Health Handbook for Cheshire & Merseyside Baby Week 2020 which prompted questions and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.improvingme.org.uk/about-us/news/baby-week-2020/ |
| Description | Creative Lives Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cross sector conference drawing together researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience - I was co-host and panelist |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-health-care/research/behavioural-science-and-health/resources/exp... |
| Description | Cultural districts and social impact |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop for practitioners in cultural districts round the world to discuss social, health and other impacts of their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cultural sector policy talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to joint Board awaydays of Barbican Centre and Guildhall School of Music & Drama about understanding social and health impacts of cultural engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Electronic article in a new collection on asset-based approaches for health and wellbeing published by Local Government Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Electronic article 'Asset-based public health - shifting evidence and practice'. Authors, South, J & Stansfield J. This is part of a collection of accessible articles on asset-based approaches written for local government, including elected members and practitioners. The Introduction section in 'Policy & Structural issues' and 'Covid-19 postcript', quote heavily from my article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.local.gov.uk/glass-half-full-10-years-review |
| Description | GIOfest XIII George Lewis and Tia DeNora |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion/presentation between composer George Lewis and DeNora around the topic of improvised music, wellbeing, dementia, Covid-19, inclusion, politics and alternative aesthetics in musical practice.The discussion was relayed by zoom broadcast and is available on youtube. Live chat and live discussion followed with members of Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.glasgowimprovisersorchestra.com/giofest/george-lewis--tia-denora/ |
| Description | GIVE: Voluntering for Wellbeing Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference organised as part of The Heritage Fund project: GIVE: Voluntering for Wellbeing. Give: Volunteering for Wellbeing is a National Lottery Heritage Fund project led by UCL on behalf of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance in collaboration with the Horniman Museum and Gardens, Natural History Museum, and Valence House Museum. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the project will make heritage more accessible to people experiencing health inequalities. Working with the three museum partners, our new volunteering programmes will help open up hidden and unused collections to a greater number of people. This conference showcased main findings from the project and brought together wider audiences interested in voluntering wellbeing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://culturehealthresearch.wordpress.com/give/ |
| Description | Get Creative Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MARCH led two citizen science experiments with the BBC as part of their Get Creative Festival, which led to nearly 100,000 people taking part, contributing new research data and learning about the evidence on creativity and mental health and wellbeing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Health Ageing Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Fancourt presented on MARCH to researchers and third sector organisations and led a workshop developing new research ideas on ageing and mental health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Helping organisations connect people with nature for both human and nature's well-being |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Helping organisations connect people with nature for both human and nature's well-being. An event on how to build organisational capacity to design, deliver, and evaluate nature connectedness interventions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://nature-mill.org/NatConEvent/ |
| Description | Inaugural lecture Centre for Cultural Affairs, Indiana University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk about the value of cultural engagement and assets presented at Centre for Cultural Affairs, Indiana University, to postgraduate students, faculty and professional practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | International Culture, Health and Wellbeing Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Largest international conference focusing on arts, creativity and health - invited panelist/chair |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/news/general-news/culture-health-and-wellbeing-internat... |
| Description | Interviews for national news |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fancourt gave 16 interviews to various BBC radio news channels including BBC Front Row on creativity and mental health, which led to a number of written responses on new knowledge and plans for new projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A meeting at the royal college of psychiatrists, hosted by the British Indian Psychiatric Society. 31st May 2019. Emphasis on creative arts and research to explore and remedy inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://synergicollaborativecentre.co.uk/ |
| Description | Keynote Lecture Art in Education Conference, Oslomet University, Oslo August 28-30 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Roughly 120 attendees, the keynote described the importance of 'legacy resources' (music in particular) in later life and for mental health and mentioned the MARCH project as a key project devoted to and promoting this topic and outlined the first phase of Care for Music. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.oslomet.no/om/arrangement/art-in-education/programme-art-in-education |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Cultural Capital Exchange - Arts & Health Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | LIfe at a Distance: reflections on lockdown exhibition and talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 30 community members from across Saltburn and East Cleveland attended the 'reflections on lockdown' event, where pieces of art made by community members were displayed and results from the 'life at a distance' project were discussed. The session was attended by members of the public, local councillors and voluntary sector organisations. Audience members expressed an interest in the work carried out over the pandemic, and the relevant to further community work in the area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lecture on value of cultural engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on value of cultural engagement delivered to postgraduate students on Sotheby's MA programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Lecture to researchers and practitioners on value of arts (Helsinki) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk about the value of cultural engagement and assets presented at University of the Arts Helsinki, to arts practitioners and faculty from across Finland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lecture, University of Rome III on project themes, December 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Postgraduates and Undergraduates plus ministerial employee and academics to discuss and debate issues around non-verbal communication and music's important role when speech is not available. Laid groundwork while there fore follow-on research in collaboration with specialist in memory studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | More Culture, Less Medicine Conference, Brighton and Hove City Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This conference sought to draw attention to the value of culture in supporting public health; I gave the Keynote providing context and key findings from our research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.creativefuture.org.uk/arts-health-and-wellbeing/more-culture-less-medicine-2/ |
| Description | Music and Wellbeing, A British Academy Ten Minute Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk in the British Academy Series of 'Ten Minute Talks' it has received over 2000 views. Live discussion and subsequent comments from viewers. The talk described some of the work in progress for Care for Music and also the perspectives being developed in the MARCH Network project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_rANbrJ0eI |
| Description | NHSE Personalised Care Social Prescirbing Link Worker Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk described our social prescribing research and how SP tackles health inequalities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | National Academy for Social Prescribing; The Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NASP Showcase event - I talked about the Academic Partners Collaborative and the evidence reviews we are conducting for NASP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Panel presentation Local Local Government Association webinar: 'A glass half-full: using asset-based approaches to improve local health & wellbeing' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited panel presentation. 'A Glass Half Full: evidence for change' in a Local Government Association webinar on 10th December 2020. The webinar was to mark 10 years of the first asset-based publication in local government 'A Glass Half Full'. The webinar was aimed at Local Government policy makers, elected members and practitioners. My presentation took a research perspective and discussed the current evidence base for asset-based approaches for health and wellbeing. I identified issues around future measurement, linked to MARCH and the wider research agenda. The webinar was well attended and stimulated lively debate during the webinar and through Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.local.gov.uk/asset-approach-community-wellbeing-glass-half-full |
| Description | Photovoice exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Photovoice exhibition was displayed in London and Manchester museums, and cultural events, including the public and service users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Podcast: Public Health Disrupted: How arts and creativity can tackle health inequalities? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A podcast for UCL Health of the Public's PH Distriupted series: How arts and creativity can tackle health inequalities? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/uclsound/public-health-disrupted-how-can-arts-and-creativity-tackle-health-in... |
| Description | Presentation and discussion with Public Health England Health Improvement Directorate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Public Heath England (PHE) convened a meeting on 31st October, 2019 for national programme leads and centre leads to find out more about the MARCH research network, and related research on participation in arts and cultural activities and health. Following presentations by MARCH academics, there was a discussion around how PHE, as a founding partner, could contribute to and influence the network. The most relevant programme areas and key contacts were identified including public mental health, healthy ageing, social prescribing and health inequalities. Opportunities for further dissemination were agreed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at Oxford seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on arts and health including MARCH research for the The Wellcome Centre for Ethics & Humanities at Oxford University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.weh.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-events/art-global-health |
| Description | Presentation at UN high level political side event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of arts and health research at the Partnering through Culture, Heritage and Art for Resilient and Inclusive Recovery UN high level political side event, including presenting a range of research from MARCH. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at conference in Norway |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation for arts and health research for the Alliance of Actors and Dancers in Norway (funded by the Ministry of Culture), including presenting a range of research from MARCH. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at the 11th EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region Annual Online Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An online workshop coordinated by the Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture primarily got those working in the cultural sector for health and wellbeing, and those working in cultural policy. After the presentation, breakout rooms were facilitated to discuss key debates in arts and health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at the Culture and Well-being Forum in Romania |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about arts and health at the Culture and Well-being Forum in Romania, including presenting a range of research published as part of MARCH. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation for charity Place2Be for Children's Mental Health Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 staff members who work for charity Place2Be attended an online event for Children's Mental Health Week, with this presentation kicking off the event and then prompting discussion and questions about research from the MARCH Network afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.place2be.org.uk/about-us/children-s-mental-health-week/ |
| Description | Presentation given at BSA Medical Sociology South Coast group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk on the MARCH network research activities and presented the findings of a recent research study to the BSA Medical Sociology group. Although this group is primarily aimed at academics and practitioners from the south coast region, colleagues from Exeter and Wales attended. The purpose was to further awareness of the MARCH research network, and share study results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to Arts sector professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Arts Council England for their naional Arts and Health training event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Reframing Museums Conference, Louvre Abu Dhabi + New York University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | At this confrenece organised by the Louvre Abu Dhabi + New York University I spoke about Museums and Empathy - this sparked lots of interesting discussion about how museums support emotional wellbeing, e.g. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/louvre-abu-dhabi-symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/events/2020/november/reframing-museums.html |
| Description | Research talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Archaeology, Heritage and Health workshop - funded by MARCH Network Plus Funds. This workshop helped to establish a new MARCH Network Special Interest Group involving professional practitioners, researchers, people with lived experience and third sector organisations interested in Archaeology and Mental Health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.marchnetwork.org/opportunities |
| Description | Research talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk to about 30 environmental psychology sholars and tsudents at the University of Cardiff about synergies between human and environmental healtjh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Seminar at Cardiff University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a talk on natural and cultural assets, community participation and the links between human and environmental health to the Environmental Psychology Dept at Cardiff Uni. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Talk and discussion session at a community mental health support group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk to a community mental health support group on MARCH and our work, and facilitated a discussion session following this on taking part in research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Talk at acaemic conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Arts Meets Health: SMaRteN Conference on 14th November |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.smarten.org.uk/arts-meets-health.html |
| Description | Talk given at UCL Festival of Culture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk given as part of the UCL 'Festival of Culture', open to the general public. Introduced the MARCH network, the evidence base and current and future research plans. Approx 40 people attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk to arts practitioners, organisations, funders and policymakers on how we evaluate outcomes of cultural engagement (Toronto) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to arts practitioners, organisations and funders in Toronto, Canada, to communicate ways of thinking about the value of cultural engagement and assets to individuals and society, including benefits for health.. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This invited talk was arranged to support and guide the Art Gallery of Ontario's community development programme; the Q&A that followed helped the museum to argue for expanding their programme to include more people from disadvantaged communities and consider issues of health inequaities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Talk, National Social Prescribing Champions Scheme Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was pleased to share findings from multiple studies about the value of social prescirbing to people from marginalised backgrounds, which sparked lots of great questions frok the audience about how to make social prescribing more accessible and equitable. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | UCL-National Trust Partnership Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Launch of UCL-NT Evidence Reviews: our talk focused on historic buildings and wellbeing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | What Next? Public Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Fancourt presented to arts and cultural organisations about the work of MARCH and opportunities for arts and mental health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop & presentation at Networking and Career Development for Mental Health ECRs event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop & presentation at 'Networking and Career Development for Mental Health ECRs event'. Mental Elf Service for the UKRI Mental Health research network webinar: 7th December 2020 Aim was to prepare post graduate students and research staff working in UKRI Mental Health Research Network projects for careers in mental health research. Good discussion of pros and cons of practice-oriented research and knowledge transfer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |