Research & Evaluation
This section presents research and evaluation of arts and health practice and related fields.
This section presents research and evaluation of arts and health practice and related fields.
The Discover/Recover Theatre Project is a preventative mental health intervention led by Wexford Mental Health Association that seeks to increase mental health literacy and reduce stigma through education and awareness-raising.
21 January, 2021
An Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce was appointed in September 2020 to prepare a report for the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media including a set of recommendations on how best the arts and culture sector can adapt and recover from the unprecedented damage arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
2 January, 2021
At the Create Networking Day (9 December 2020), delegates came together in a facilitated interactive session entitled “Connect” which offered a chance to meet, talk, share, and strategise together.
2 January, 2021
Creative Enquiry - Arts and Older People is an investigative collaborative venture that creatively explores fresh approaches to arts engagement with older people and advances best practice models.
17 October, 2020
The Arts & Health Hub (UK) released its COVID-19 Impact Report in July 2020 examining how the pandemic has affected artists in the arts & health sector.
30 August, 2020
EY were commissioned by the Arts Council in May 2020 to support the work of the COVID-19 Arts Council Advisory Group.
21 June, 2020
A report by the Expert Advisory Group established by the Arts Council to address the Covid-19 crisis in the arts sector, published in June 2020.
21 June, 2020
This study aims to assess the nature and scope of arts and health practice in Ireland with a view to informing a joint framework between the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Arts Council of Ireland.
30 March, 2020
The first-ever report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the evidence base for arts and health interventions.
17 December, 2019
This four-year review of the National Centre for Arts and Health at Tallaght University Hospital brings together accumulated reports from 2015 to 2018 and covers three key areas of programming: participative arts, receptive arts and creative arts therapies.
16 December, 2019
This white paper by the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine and ArtPlace America frames the value of arts and culture for advancing health and wellbeing in communities, and offers examples of impactful cross-sector collaborations that engage arts and culture to address five critical public health issues: collective trauma, racism, social isolation and exclusion, mental health, and chronic disease.
4 November, 2019
Waterford Healing Arts Trust has been running an arts programme in the Renal Dialysis Unit at University Hospital Waterford since 2007.
31 August, 2019
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