Research Projects

Creative Care is a practical guide for artists—especially those without formal training in creative arts therapies or psychosocial support—who wish to offer meaningful, art-based activities in humanitarian settings.

PowerArtMinds is a creative, community-based program that uses the arts to strengthen brain health, emotional wellbeing, and prosocial skills among children and adolescents in underserved neighborhoods of Peñalolén, Chile. Through a 12-week, multi-arts intervention and cross-sector collaboration, the project builds resilience, expands access to brain health education, and generates research insights to support scalable public health solutions.

A major new 7-year programme of Global Research on Arts & Cultural Engagement funded through a Wellcome Discovery Award aimed at advancing Epidemiological methods

This project addresses the knowledge gap on the value of social prescribing programs for individuals, health systems, and society, through a systematic review of the global economic evidence on social prescribing programs, synthesizing findings across peer-reviewed and grey literature to inform research, practice, and policy.

Driven by growing global interest among arts and health researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, this systematic review will synthesize over 150 large-scale studies to map and quantify how arts engagement relates to population health, addressing questions beyond experimental research while informing future public health strategies.

An exploration of how new artistic abilities can emerge in people with dementia, developing a transdisciplinary framework to explain the neurobiological, cognitive, and environmental mechanisms underlying this phenomenon and its potential to inform brain health research and creative therapeutic approaches.