research
Our work with the Invest to Save researchers investigating the impact of art on health has endorsed and supported our approach – we are continuing this relationship to deepen our methods and to add to knowledge in this field:

“Engaging in culture, creativity and the arts significantly improves health and well being by engaging people in challenging activities and giving them the opportunity to be creative and experimental.…within the creative experience a person is able to explore feelings, express themselves and perhaps this creates an inner shift that facilitates the potential for health.” (Invest to Save Arts and Health Evaluation Project)

Invest to Save is a Treasury funded project that brings together Manchester Metropolitan University (Arts for Health Department), Public Health North West and Arts Council England in an evaluation of a range of arts and health projects in the North West region.  The overall aim of the project is to develop the capacity of both the health and arts sectors in the North West region to deliver high quality innovative arts in health work, which is effective, efficient and value for money. 

Central to the project is the evaluation of six regional projects. arthur+martha is one of six short listed projects that is part of the evaluation and the process to date has resulted in the development of a promising research process that reflects the values of the arts team as well as meeting calls for more robust information about the impact of the arts.

Amanda Kilroy MRes; BSc (Hons); RGN; PGCE

Research Lead – Invest to Save Project

please visit the invest to save website at http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk
  
see in different ways. An article 
and 6 versions of this article you get an article on this table and 
you'll get 6 different 
reflections
see - it should be good, something in what you see in

your mind's eye

Art is a pioneer of new ways of thinking about the world – it embraces new shapes, words, sounds and allows old habits to be reassessed. That is why even those two overused words ‘avant garde’ still often read ‘offence’ – a mirror isn’t always welcome.

Arts in healthcare can help to bring in fresh ways of looking at the self and about ideas of what health is and what roles being ill might involve. Using unusual art processes in healthcare allows space for new health models to find expression and shape. A temporary language to understand with.