Creative Health Partners
Examples of recent project partnerships include:
- Collaboratively delivered rap and graffiti courses with youth-focused hip hop charity Your Next Move. This supported engagement of more young people in our Create Well programme, and developed the confidence of Your Next Move Artists in delivering Creative Health work.
- The Finding Focus project with Creative Health specialist Look Again.
Creative Health groups and university colleagues we engage with include:
Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium
Creative Health Partner
A Consortium was established, and we aspire to develop into a broader Alliance, through which to deliver our shared vision:
Anyone in Gloucestershire, whoever they are and whatever age they are, will be able to manage their own health and wellbeing in new ways, through access to ongoing creative health options.
Current Consortium partners are:
National Arts & Mental Health Alliance
Creative Health Partner
We meet regularly, and fundraise, with national partners who share a focus on Arts and Mental Health, including Inspirative Arts in Derby, Arts & Minds in Cambridge and Bristol Arts on Referral Alliance partners.
Meetings are convened by Arts Network in London and our current focus is on national initiatives through which to support diversification of the workforce.
University of Gloucestershire
Creative Health Partner
Artlift has partnered with University of Gloucestershire since its inception and, thanks to this relationship, now holds the largest known body of Arts & Wellbeing data in the world.
Read examples of papers our university colleagues have had published since 2007.
Dr Rachel Sumner
Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Rachel is involved in research on how psychological changes can influence health and wellbeing. She has published in the areas of Psychoneuroimmunology and Psychoneuroendocrinology and is involved in several interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary health research projects.
She is particularly interested in how aspects of our environment (like stress, or interactions with nature) can influence our health.
Professor Diane Crone
Professor of Exercise & Health at Cardiff University
Diane’s expertise lies in the design, delivery and evaluation of health promoting interventions in primary and secondary health care, and in the community. She has published internationally in the areas of exercise referral scheme evaluation, mental health promotion, arts for health and in physical activity pathway intervention evaluations.
Her work has specific application to practice and is therefore used regularly in the development of evidence-based practice. She has extensive experience of both leading and taking part in multi-partner projects and of international and transnational working practices.
