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，可以以传统的方式带来对青少年心理健康的新见解和理解，通常是成人主导的，研究方法不能。如果我们能够将艺术方法与科学和青年观点结合起来，就有可能提高对心理健康的理解。然而，这一潜力受到许多研究障碍的阻碍。科学家们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。我们也没有一个共同的观点，在青年，科学家和艺术家，如何解释的意义，艺术所产生的年轻人对他们的心理健康。也缺乏对基于艺术的方法如何以及为什么有助于青少年心理健康的理解。最后，艺术研究人员和年轻人可能会发现使用标准化的心理健康措施，这是在科学上流行的，困难。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一个障碍。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。这些将年轻人的生活经验带入研究者对方法和解释的探索中。我们专注于我们的方法发展与青少年孤独作为刺激。我们的目标是为任何从事艺术、科学和青年声音交叉领域工作的人创建一个大型资源中心，提供教学工具、框架、术语表、分析方法和良好实践指南，以改善和优化我们可以从青年那里收集的知识知情的、科学友好的、基于艺术的研究。国家研究方法中心和其他网络将支持向学术和非学术研究用户广泛传播。

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.