Following on for our Creative Health Research Symposium 2024, we invite you to join us in 2025 to discuss the practice, policy and research around Creative Health. This event is part of the Healthier Futures Fortnight.
The symposium will feature a panel exploring young people's mental health and the role of Creative Health interventions, bringing together artists, practitioners and researchers.
We will be welcoming colleagues working on the Greater Manchester Creative Health Place Partnership, to give us an update on their work pioneering 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 will also be welcoming Cartwheel Arts to lead a Creative Workshop, based on their community participation arts projects in Rochdale.
Background and Context
Since the publication of Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing in 2017 there has been a significant development of practice, policy and research around the concept of creative health.
In 2022 Creative Manchester hosted the launch of the Greater Manchester Creative Health Strategy and we have worked closely with partners across the city region to support its implementation.
The University of Manchester researchers have been exploring the research landscape around creative health, beginning to map research agendas and identifying support for interdisciplinary networking both internally and externally to further develop a framework for creative health research.
This has built on our collaborative research project Organisations of Hope: Building a Creative Health Consortium in Greater Manchester (2022/2023) in which we mapped creative health activity in the city region as part of phase 2 of the UKRI Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities research programme.
Creative Manchester
Creative Manchester is an interdisciplinary research platform based at The University of Manchester. The platform champions research in creativity and creative practice, bringing together research communities with external stakeholders to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities. Please visit the website for more information: Creative Manchester.
You can connect with Creative Manchester via our Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Healthier Futures
Health inequalities span the globe, affecting individuals, communities, and populations. From gender to geography, economics to ethnicity, all these factors affect people’s opportunities to lead healthy lives. The University of Manchester’s Healthier Futures Research Platform supports interdisciplinary research and partnerships to act upon the causes and consequences of health inequalities across our city region and worldwide.?
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Accessibility
We want to make the event a positive experience for all participants. If you have particular access needs, please let us know in advance by providing details of any accessibility needs when registering for your ticket or by emailing us at creative@manchester.ac.uk.
