Researching Arts, Health and Wellbeing

艺术、健康和幸福的研究在许多学科和创意机构中都有发现，但仍然是碎片化的，智力分散。在英国，目前还没有可识别的研究网络将这一领域的研究联系起来。拟议的研讨会计划将邀请艺术、健康和福利领域的知名研究人员和主要机构，就不同的学术和实践观点进行对话。通过这种对话，研讨会方案的目的有四个方面：就艺术、健康和幸福研究的“大问题”达成共识。推进和深化对艺术、健康和福利的过程和实践的理论、概念和方法研究。制定策略，与政策制定者、资助者、艺术机构和从业者进行宣传和知识交流。研讨会计划将由2011年3月成立的一个非正式学术网络组织，该网络由与艺术、健康和福利有关的老牌学者和新兴卓越中心组成。该方案以这些学者的专门知识、成就和合作为基础，扩大艺术和卫生机构、相关政策界和资助者以及早期职业学者和研究生之间的影响、能力和协调。研讨会计划将提供一个空间，探索和解决在艺术，健康和福祉方面产生创新研究的挑战，这些研究既具有智力吸引力，又具有应用效益。我们共同关注的是艺术如何有助于个人和社区的福祉和健康，医疗保健的设置，治疗过程和专业发展，在当前公共部门重组中可能有特别牵引力的探索。为此目的，其他国家正在兴起艺术、健康和福利方面的国家网络；为了在该领域保持国际声誉，建立我们自己的全国网络是及时的。这项建议的合作者也注意到有必要建立一个国家网络，通过这个网络与其他国家的类似网络建立正式联系。研讨会方案包括为期两年的四次全国会议。研讨会将是为期一天的活动，有4-5位演讲者和讨论和决策的房间。该方案将出版学术出版物以及与政策和实践有关的简报，我们将通过与相关政策和从业者机构的直接接触、网络网络和关于艺术和健康研究现状及未来议程的五页国家基准声明来采取后续行动。研讨会将如下：1]现有知识，有争议的方法和未来议程2013年3月，诺丁汉。第一次研讨会旨在绘制跨学科现有研究的版图，确定共识和概念上的紧张关系，并为跨学科研究建立学术议程。[2]当代社会的艺术与健康研究与实践，2013年9月，布里斯托尔。第二个研讨会旨在研究艺术，健康和福利在当代价值或政治，经济和健康领域框架内的研究和实践所面临的挑战。[3]社会理论与创意艺术的新相遇，2014年3月，格拉斯哥。第三次研讨会旨在审查参与和参与特定艺术形式的潜力，通过赋予权力、发言权和代表性来促进健康和福祉。[4]知识转移与网络策略，2014年9月，伦敦。最后一次研讨会旨在探讨对艺术和卫生干预措施的认识和动员方面的障碍，以及挑战这些障碍所需的信息和行动。

Research on Arts, Health and Wellbeing is found across many academic disciplines and creative agencies, but remains fragmented and intellectually diffuse. There is currently no identifiable research network that connects research in this area in the UK. The proposed Seminar Programme will bring into dialogue different academic and practitioner perspectives, involving established researchers and major organisations in the field of Arts, Health and Wellbeing. Through this dialogue, the aim of the Seminar Programme is fourfold: 1. to generate consensus on the 'big questions' for Arts, Health and Wellbeing research 2. to advance and deepen theoretical, conceptual and methodological research on the processes and practices in Arts, Health and Wellbeing 3. to develop strategies for advocacy and knowledge exchange with policy-makers, funders and arts agencies and practitioners 4. to establish the foundations for a national network in Arts, Health and WellbeingThe Seminar Programme will be organised by an informal academic network set up in March 2011, which comprises established academics and emerging centres of excellence in relation to Arts, Health and Wellbeing. The Programme builds on the expertise, achievements and collaborations of these academics to expand reach, capacity and coordination across arts and health agencies, relevant policy communities and funders as well as early career academics and post-graduates. The seminar programme will enable a space in which to explore and address the challenges of generating innovative research in Arts, Health and Wellbeing that is both intellectually engaging and of applied benefits. Our unifying concern is how the arts may contribute to wellbeing and health of individuals and communities, to the settings of health care, to therapeutic processes and to professional development, explorations that may have particular traction within current public sector restructuring. National networks in Arts, Health and Wellbeing are emergent in other countries to this end; it is timely to build our own national network in order to maintain an international reputation in the field. The collaborators on this proposal are also mindful of the need for a national network through which to establish formal links with similar networks in other countries. The Seminar Programme comprises four national meetings over two-years. Seminars will be one day events with 4-5 speakers and rooms for discussion and decision-making. The Programme will produce academic publications and policy and practice relevant briefing notes and we will follow-up through direct contacts with relevant policy and practitioner agencies, with web-based networking and a five page national bench-making statement on the state of arts and health research and the future agenda. The seminars will be as follows: 1] Existing knowledge, contested approaches and future agenda March, 2013, Nottingham. The first seminar aims to map the terrain of existing research across different disciplines, identify consensus and conceptual tensions and build an academic agenda for cross-disciplinary research. 2] The place of arts and health research and practice in contemporary society September 2013, Bristol. The second seminar aims to examine the challenges for research and practice in Arts, Health and Wellbeing within contemporary values or framings in the political, economic and health domains. 3] New encounters of social theory and the creative arts March, 2014, Glasgow. The third seminar aims to examine the potential of engagement and participation in particular art forms to facilitate health and wellbeing through empowerment, voice and representation. 4] Strategies for advocacy, knowledge transfer and networking September, 2014, London. The final seminar aims to explore barriers to awareness of and mobilisation of arts and health interventions, the information and action needs to challenge such barriers.