Communities and Wellbeing
This group of projects focuses on the impact of arts organisations and grassroots groups on supporting societal wellbeing, mental health and social support issues arising in the pandemic.
Spaces and Places
This group of projects identify and examine the spatial, geographical and developmental disparities experienced in the pandemic, but also how spaces and places connected diverse communities.
Communities and Wellbeing
Community COVID
Combating social isolation through creative and community engagement: COVID and beyond
Professor Helen Chatterjee
(University College London)
COVID-19 CARE
Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region
Professor Josie Billington
(University of Liverpool)
Creative Doodle Book
Developing Inclusive Community Arts Engagement During Physical Distancing
Professor Matthew Reason
(York St John University)
Culture Box
Remote and Digital Delivery of Arts and Creative Activities to Improve the Wellbeing of People with Dementia in Care Homes
Professor Victoria Tischler
(University of Exeter)
Distanced Arts
Investigating the design, delivery, and impacts of Entelechy Arts’ Staying Connected Programme
Dr Janelle Jones
(Queen Mary University London)
Online access to cultural activities for people living with brain injury
Professor Carmine M Pariante
(Kings College London)
Optimising cultural provision to improve older people’s wellbeing through social prescribing in the context of COVID-19
Realist review and evaluation
Dr Kamal Ram Mahtani
(University of Oxford)
Poets respond to Covid-19
Collaborative UK and International Poetry Project
Professor Anthony Caleshu
(University of Plymouth)
Spaces and Places
Libraries in lockdown
Scottish public libraries and their role in community cohesion and resilience
Professor Peter Reid
(Robert Gordon University)
Nature’s way
Co-creating methods for innovating nature-based solutions for public health and green recovery in a post-covid world
Dr Qian Sun
(Royal College of Art)
Supporting healthcare professionals through Covid-19
Understanding how arts-based methods can support non-verbal communication
Dr Suzy Wilson
(Queen Mary University London)
The Arts Are Vital to Emergency Planning
Performance Strategies for Managing Pandemics
Dr Patrick Duggan
(Northumbria University)
Walking publics / Walking arts
Walking, wellbeing, and community during COVID-19
Professor Dee Heddon
(University of Glasgow)
