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Case Study
Cut from the Same Cloth
Cut from the Same Cloth is a project initiated by University College Dublin Conway Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Research, seeking to build trust and foster new connections between women and girls from minority communities in Ireland and biomedical health researchers. Stories and experiences from a series of gatherings exploring 'the fabric of our lives' have culminated in a touring exhibition by artist and tapestry weaver Lorna Donlon.
Perspective
Six challenges facing arts and health
Alex Cothren and Tully Barnett from Flinders University talked to members of 22 arts and health organisations across the globe for their 2024 report, What does an arts and health organisation do? Across wide-ranging approaches to advancing this work, they discovered commonalities in the challenges facing these organisations. They summarise six key challenges and some of the solutions adopted by arts and health organisations to overcome them.
Reflection
Reflecting on arts and health practice by Luci Kershaw
Luci Kershaw is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores health topics and themes, as well as more traditional practice within the area of arts and health. Luci was awarded the artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary in 2024 and has spent her time exploring how to embrace more collaborative approaches to sharing people’s stories through sound and film.
Resources
Framework
The Creative Health Impact Framework
The Creative Health Impact Framework has been created to support Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE), arts, and cultural organisations in London to plan for, evidence and communicate the value of their work to health partners in relation to health inequalities and health improvement. Key tools include a Creative Health Logic Model Template, a Health Outcomes and Impacts Guide, and a Creative Health Evaluation Framework.
Mapping Review
Social prescribing outcomes: a mapping review of the evidence from 13 countries to identify key common outcomes
As a means for supporting a range of health and wellbeing goals, social prescribing programmes have been implemented around the world. This mapping review explores the broad array of social prescribing outcomes that have been studied in 13 countries and maps the outcomes that have been most commonly studied.
Policy & Strategy
Compassionate Communities Position Paper
The compassionate communities approach is one in which caregiving, dying, death and grief are shared responsibilities of the whole community, complementing formal services dedicated to end-of-life care by fostering local networks of care and compassion. This position paper, developed as part of the ongoing all-Ireland Compassionate Communities research project, includes the role of the arts in facilitating discussions around emotive topics and helping to develop a compassionate culture.
