Our research
Access robust research demonstrating the value of arts in health partnerships.
Findings from the research project Covid-19 Care: Culture and the Arts: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region
This report presents new evidence on the value and importance of arts and culture in everyday life, and on the effectiveness of changes to provision made by arts and cultural organisations to maintain links with vulnerable and isolated communities
LivCare publications
Access a selection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, evaluations and reports exploring arts in health partnerships, which have been authored by members of the LivCare team.
Hear from interviews with 24 service providers and creative practitioners in the Liverpool City Region.
Evidence from a UK Research Innovation-funded study detailing impacts of restricted access to arts and culture on mental health.
Policy Brief | The Mental Health Impact of Restricted Access to Arts and Culture
Liverpool City Region has a pioneering history of harnessing arts for mental health care. Our study examined the successes and challenges of alternative modes of provision.
Journal Article | Lifting Lockdown: Renewed Access to Arts and Cultural Activities
Hear from 14 creative practitioners and service providers about their shifting priorities during the transitory phase out of lockdown.
How arts organisations in the Liverpool City Region went the extra mile in meeting the needs of their beneficiaries and in turn re-shaped their provision of the arts in public life forever.
Eight qualitative interviews with beneficiaries in the LCR explore how the pandemic altered the ways that people engage in arts and culture.
Other key research centres and publications
Let's Create | Arts Council England
A plan to transform the UK through arts and culture. Bringing people together, making them happier and healthier.
See ACE's 2020-2030 Strategy
See ACE's Creative Health and Wellbeing Report
Pandemic and Beyond
A research hub, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to understand contribution of the arts to COVID research and recovery. Summary of findings in their final project report.
Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing | Report
Inquiry Report led by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing.
Digital Access to Arts and Culture | Report
The first major UK research project dedicated to investigating the accessibility and inclusion implications of the rapid growth in online arts and culture during the pandemic.
Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance
A national membership organisation representing everyone who believes that creativity and cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing.
See the From Surviving to Thriving report
National Centre for Creative Health
Formed in response to the Creative Health report to advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration and publishing the Creative Health Review.
National Academy for Social Prescribing
Dedicated to the advancement of social prescribing through promotion, collaboration and innovation: championing the work of local communities in connecting people for wellbeing.
Repository for Arts and Health Resources
An online, searchable database, housing over seven hundred documents that chart the development of the Arts and Health movement in the UK and internationally, from 1996 onwards.
The Centre for Cultural Value
Building a shared understanding of the differences that arts, culture, heritage and screen make to people’s lives and to society.
See the Culture in Crisis Report
See Culture in Crisis policy recommendations
WHO/UCL Collaborating Centre for Arts & Health
Based in the Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health at University College London.