Seeing Arts Health Research Enacted (SHARED): Understanding what works for whom in arts-based approaches for mental health and wellbeing globally

AHRC在艺术和人文学科在促进国家和国际精神健康和福祉方面的作用方面的创新记录在与精神健康相关的主题和呼吁的范围和多样性中得到了证明，包括文化价值项目、互联社区以及AHRC通过GCRF资助的项目对全球精神健康议程的贡献，该议程主要涉及解决全球精神健康提供方面的不平等问题。在很大程度上归功于AHRC的领导，现在已经有效地提出了艺术和人文在提高精神健康方面的价值的国家案例，文化和创意艺术的作用在英国文化研究所关于精神健康的跨学科议程中得到了坚定的承认。在UKRI的心理健康战略中确定的五个横向主题中，第一个是“有效干预”，实现“包容性参与”和“可转移性、可持续性、可扩展性”。现在的关键和紧迫的挑战是确保一种强有力的、以证据为基础和研究知情的方法，使全球各地的亲历者能够接触到以艺术和人文研究为基础的活动。该项目通过建立一个国际网络来应对这一挑战，以探索哪些以艺术和人文研究为基础的活动为谁工作(何时、为什么和在哪里)，以及在不同的社会文化背景下将艺术和人文研究嵌入精神卫生提供方面的最佳做法。由一个跨学科的艺术和人文团队(英国文学/跨文化教育/应用语言学)领导，专门从事以高影响力的艺术/人文研究为基础的心理健康提供，并利用心理学的专业知识。该项目以健康科学和现代语言文化为基础，并与外部健康伙伴和艺术组织合作，将重点放在成功实施和嵌入艺术和人文研究，以促进国家和国际的精神健康和福祉。该网络特别关注平等和包容，以及精神健康和福祉领域基于艺术和人文研究的倡议在克服全球健康不平等和排斥方面必须发挥的特殊作用，该网络的动机是一项“跨知识”议程。研究证据表明，高收入国家可以向低收入国家学习宝贵的经验教训，特别是在精神健康和福祉的方法方面接受多元化。三个重点讲习班--(I)艺术和卫生提供者之间的战略伙伴关系(Ii)精神卫生保健的包容性实践和(Iii)与现有社区能力的协调--将把最先进的知识和专门知识与世界各地正在进行的以艺术和人文为基础的精神卫生研究的成功模式结合在一起。基于两个英国城市(利物浦和格拉斯哥)在艺术与健康之间创新合作方面的异常强劲的记录，以及跨学科研究团队在当地和(国际)全国(国际)艺术/人文精神健康研究方面的工作经验，该系列将强调：与利益相关者共同创造嵌入以研究为基础的变革的手段；促进国内和国际成功项目的联合规划；确定在不同社会文化背景下区分不同艺术/人文活动对精神健康的益处需要做些什么。该网络的短期目标是确定哪些举措已经奏效，以及可以从哪些经验教训中吸取教训，用于新冠肺炎事件后的当务之急。长期目标是将艺术和人文学科定位在提供精神卫生服务的包容性愿景的前沿，并将AHRC定位为应对未来国家和全球精神卫生挑战的先锋。

The AHRC's track record of innovation in relation to the role of Arts and Humanities in fostering mental health and wellbeing, nationally and internationally, is proven in the range and diversity of mental health-related themes and calls, including the Cultural Value Project, Connected Communities and the AHRC's contribution via GCRF-funded projects to the Global Mental Health agenda, which has principally been concerned with addressing inequities in mental health provision across the globe. Thanks in large part to the AHRC's leadership, the national case for the value of Arts and Humanities in enhancing mental health has now been effectively made, and the role of culture and the creative arts is firmly acknowledged in UKRI's cross-disciplinary agenda for mental health. Of the five cross-cutting themes identified in UKRI's mental health strategy, the first is 'effective intervention', enabling 'inclusive participation' and 'transferability, sustainability, scalability'. The key and pressing challenge now is to ensure a robust, evidence-based and research-informed approach that will enable Arts and Humanities research-based activities to be accessible to those who are experiencing them across the globe This project rises to that challenge by establishing an international network to explore which Arts and Humanities research-based activities are working for whom (when, why and where) and what is evidenced best practice for embedding Arts and Humanities research in mental health provision in different socio-cultural contexts. Led by an interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities team (English Literature/Intercultural Education/Applied Linguistics) specialising in high-impact Arts/Humanities research-based mental health provision, and drawing on expertise in Psychology. Health Sciences and Modern Languages and Cultures, as well as working in collaboration with external health partners and arts organisations, the project will focus on the successful implementation and embedding of Arts and Humanities research in the promotion of mental health and wellbeing, nationally and internationally. With a specific focus on equality and inclusion, and the special part Arts and Humanities research-based initiatives in Mental Health and Wellbeing have to play in overcoming health inequities and exclusions globally, the network is motivated by a 'trans-knowledging' agenda. Research evidence shows that high income countries have valuable lessons to learn from low-income ones, especially in embracing pluralism in respect of approaches to mental health and wellbeing. Three focused workshops - (i) strategic partnerships between Arts and Health providers (ii) inclusive practices in mental health care and (iii) alignment with existing community capacities - will bring together state-of-the-art knowledge and expertise with ongoing successful models of Arts and Humanities-based research in mental health from across the world. Building on the exceptionally strong track record in two UK cities (Liverpool and Glasgow) of innovative collaboration between arts and health, as well as on the interdisciplinary research team's experience of working locally and (inter)nationally on Arts/Humanities research for mental health, the series will emphasise: co-creating with stakeholders means for embedding research-based change; promoting joined-up planning of successful projects nationally and internationally; identifying what needs to be done in differentiating the benefits to mental health of distinct Arts/Humanities activities in different socio-cultural contexts. The short-term objective of this network is to establish what has already worked and what lessons can be learnt for the immediate priorities in the aftermath of Covid-19. The long-term objective is to position Arts and Humanities at the forefront of an inclusive vision of mental health provision and the AHRC in the vanguard of addressing the national and global mental health challenge in the future.