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12
February
2025
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15:18
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Looking back: Creative Health Research at ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ

A look back on Creative Health research at ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ in the last few years, working with partners across the Greater ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ city region.

is a key theme of the Creative ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ 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 ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Creative Health Strategy since its launch in November 2022.

AHRC-funded project (2022-2024) built a coalition of researchers and partners from across Greater ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ to understand creative health better. This included working with Cartwheel Arts to understand more about communities’ 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 ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ.

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 ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ. 

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 ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Combined Authority Integrated Care Partnership, NHS Greater ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ and other universities from across the region on an ambitious 3-year programme of work (2024-2027) supported by Arts Council England. 

The Greater ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ 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 ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ, 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.

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