Contemporary visual art and identity construction - wellbeing amongst older people
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Arts and Cultures
Abstract
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Organisations
- Newcastle University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Medical Research Council (Co-funder)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Co-funder)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (Co-funder)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Co-funder)
- Beamish The Living Museum of the North (Collaboration)
- Equal Arts (Collaboration)
Publications
Anna Goulding (Author)
(2012)
Contemporary visual art and identity construction : exploring wellbeing amongst older people
in Engage journal
Arber S
(2014)
The new science of ageing
Goulding A
(2012)
Lifelong Learning for People Aged 64+ Within the Contemporary Art Gallery Context
in Educational Gerontology
Murray M
(2014)
The new science of ageing
Newman A
(2013)
Contemporary visual art and the construction of identity: maintenance and revision processes in older adults
in International Journal of Heritage Studies
Newman A
(2013)
Imagining the social impact of museums and galleries: interrogating cultural policy through an empirical study
in International Journal of Cultural Policy
Newman A
(2013)
How cultural capital, habitus and class influence the responses of older adults to the field of contemporary visual art.
in Poetics (Hague, Netherlands)
Newman A,
(2011)
The impact of engagement with contemporary visual art on the wellbeing of older adults
in Aging clinical and experimental research
Vera-Sanso P
(2014)
The new science of ageing
| Description | Impact is in the areas of: Increasing the effectiveness of public services and policy Enhancing quality of life, health and creative output The results were disseminated to a number of organisations such as: • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and equivalents in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; • Arts Council England and their equivalents in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; • Arts practitioners working with older people; • Gallery and museum practitioners; BALTIC, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art; • Charities, Age UK, Equal Arts (the north-east region's arts and older people's agency) and equivalents; • Arts and health practitioner community; • Workforce development professionals and employers in the care sector working together to raise the quality of care (Tyne and Wear Care Alliance); The work demonstrated ways of understanding wellbeing in context of arts engagement and fed into policy reviews, it contributed to changing practice in museums and galleries, charities working with older people and contributed to workforce development for those in the care sector. A paper derived from the project was quoted in The value of arts and culture to people and society - an evidence review - published by the Arts Council in 2014. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Changing practice in relation to older people in cultural institutions |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Organisations adopting a more creative approach to working with older people (particularly those with dementia) - rather than focusing upon memory. It's not possible to measure the impact of this in a quantitative way. |
| Description | Follow-on Fund |
| Amount | £125,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RES/0344/7223 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2011 |
| End | 02/2012 |
| Description | Large Grant |
| Amount | £1,499,995 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/K00333X/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2013 |
| End | 08/2016 |
| Description | Working with Beamish Museum |
| Organisation | Beamish The Living Museum of the North |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Linking with Beamish has a brought a new perspective to the work of engaging with communities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Bring experience of working with communities in the NE region |
| Impact | Contribution to thinking behind outputs. |
| Description | Working with Equal Arts - charity working with older people and the arts |
| Organisation | Equal Arts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Set the partnership up. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They provide access to older people who wish to take part in research projects - wealth of knowledge of the field, leading practitioner. |
| Impact | The partner became a community PI for AH/Lo13274/1 |
| Description | Working with museums and gallereis |
| 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 | Following took a role in seminars, feeding into research and using the results. BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Royal Academy, London, Beamish Museum, Co. Durham Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums Woodhorn Charitable Trust |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |