Creating Research Ecologies to Advance Transdiciplinary lEarning (CREATE) on arts-based programs through the study of adolescent loneliness

以艺术为基础的心理健康研究，使用音乐、戏剧、舞蹈、绘画、诗歌等创造性实践，受到许多年轻人的喜爱，可以带来关于青少年心理健康的新见解和理解，这是传统的、通常由成年人主导的研究方法所不能做到的。如果我们能够将艺术方法与科学和青年视角结合起来，那么提高对心理健康的理解就有尚未开发的潜力。然而，这种潜力受到许多研究障碍的阻碍。科学家们可能会发现很难理解以艺术为基础的研究的过程和结果，这意味着艺术与科学的合作面临挑战。青年、科学家和艺术家也有不同的词汇和研究价值。对于如何解释年轻人创作的关于他们心理健康的艺术的意义，我们在青年、科学家和艺术家中也没有共同的观点。也缺乏对以艺术为基础的方法如何以及为什么能够帮助青年心理健康的确切理解。最后，艺术研究人员和年轻人可能会发现，使用科学上流行的标准化心理健康测量方法是困难的。Create项目将通过将青年、科学家和艺术研究人员聚集在一起来解决每个障碍。我们首先对主要障碍和潜在的解决方案进行审查，并将这些想法带入Living Labs。这些都将青年的生活体验带入了围绕方法的探索和与研究者的解读。我们把我们的方法发展集中在与青少年孤独相关的刺激上。我们的目标是创建一个大型资源中心，为任何从事艺术、科学和青年声音交叉工作的人提供教学工具、框架、词汇、分析方法和良好实践指南，以改进和优化我们可以从青年知情的、科学友好的、以艺术为基础的研究中收集的学习。国家研究方法中心和其他网络将支持对学术和非学术研究用户的广泛传播。

Arts-based mental health research, using creative practices like music, theatre, dance, drawing, poetry is enjoyed by many young people and can bring new insights and understanding about adolescent mental health in ways that traditional, often adult-led, research methods cannot. There is untapped potential to improve understanding of mental health if we could bring arts-approaches together with science and youth perspectives. However, this potential is held back by many research barriers. Scientists can find it hard to understand the processes and outcomes of arts-based research, meaning art-science collaborations face challenges. Youth, scientists and artists also have different vocabularies and research values. We are also without a shared view, across youth, scientists and artists, on how to interpret the meaning of the art produced by young people about their mental health. An understanding of exactly how and why arts-based approaches can be helpful to youth mental health is also lacking. Finally, arts researchers and youth can find the use of standardized measures of mental health, which are popular in science, difficult. Project CREATE will address each barrier by bringing youth, scientists and arts researchers together. We first conduct reviews of the main barriers and potential solutions and take these ideas into Living Labs. These bring youth lived experience into exploration around methods and interpretation with researchers. We focus our methods development in relation to adolescent loneliness as stimulus. Our ambition is to create a large resource hub, for anyone working at the intersection of arts, science and youth voice, presenting teaching tools, frameworks, glossaries, analysis methods and good practice guides to improve and optimise the learning we can glean from youth-informed, science friendly, arts-based research. Wide dissemination will be supported by the National Centre for Research Methods, and other networks, to both academic and non-academic research users.