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Arts, Health and Wellbeing Research

Summary of the impact

This case study describes the reach and significance of research conducted by members of the interdisciplinary Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts & Health. The examples below focus on the impact of singing as a health and wellbeing intervention for adults within clinical and non-clinical populations. The research has shown that singing has had a beneficial impact on individuals and influenced fields of professional practice in health and social care in the UK and US, service delivery in the UK, and policy development in the UK through the work of the Royal Society for Public Health.

Submitting Institution

Canterbury Christ Church University

Unit of Assessment

Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy

Summary Impact Type

Health

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services

Improving public policy by promoting wellbeing

Summary of the impact

The Wellbeing Programme at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) was founded in 2001, based on the belief that subjective wellbeing should be the main criterion for making government policy. The research programme has had a widespread impact on many UK government policies, including policies for measuring national wellbeing; for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies in the NHS; for improving life skills in schools; and for apprenticeships. CEP research has also had significant impact worldwide, including on the OECD's measurement programme, the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations (UN) process towards making happiness one of the `sustainable development goals' after 2015.

Submitting Institution

London School of Economics & Political Science

Unit of Assessment

Economics and Econometrics

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences: Psychology

Potential and limitations of policies promoting choice, flexibility and control

Summary of the impact

This case study concerns a body of research by Dr Julie Ridley, Dr Helen Spandler and Dr Karen Newbigging into Self-directed Support (SDS) and Direct Payments (DPs), which examines perspectives and experiences of policies to promote choice, control and flexibility in social care, and provides a critique distinguishing between rhetoric and reality. Early qualitative and action research focused specifically on mental health, including work for the Scottish Executive (Ridley) and the Department of Health (Spandler), leading to cutting-edge policy critiques (Spandler), engagement with the field to distil key implementation themes (Newbigging) and later, to broader based evaluation of SDS policy implementation in Scotland. Collectively and over time, this work has had a direct influence on social care policy and law across the UK, as outlined below.

Submitting Institution

University of Central Lancashire

Unit of Assessment

Social Work and Social Policy

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services

Health, Cold Weather and Fuel Poverty

Summary of the impact

This case study presents the impact of the Health and Temperature Research Group (HTRG) at Sheffield Hallam University, led by Professor Tod. The group generates novel, collaborative, translational, interdisciplinary (e.g. health, housing and environment, energy and welfare) research with a focus on cold related ill health. The research impact is illustrated here by The Keeping Warm in Later Life Project (KWILLT). KWILLT findings provide a unique understanding of the complex environment and multiple factors influencing older people keeping warm and well in winter. Beneficiaries include NHS, local and national policy makers, and practice organisations.

Submitting Institution

Sheffield Hallam University

Unit of Assessment

Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy

Summary Impact Type

Health

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services

Supporting recovery from mental ill health

Summary of the impact

Our research has directly informed the development of services that are supporting recovery from mental ill health by enabling mental health service users to:

  • Return to or gain employment
  • Experience improved levels of wellbeing and social inclusion through engaging in creative activity.

Submitting Institution

Anglia Ruskin University

Unit of Assessment

Social Work and Social Policy

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

International impact on the measurement of patient health and its use in health care decision-making

Summary of the impact

Methods for valuing quality of life developed by Professor Devlin at City University London are used internationally to help governments make healthcare decisions. Her research focuses on a widely-used questionnaire for measuring patient reported health, the European Quality of Life 5-Dimensions (EQ-5D). Government organisations routinely use the EQ-5D to judge whether new medicines work and are cost-effective. Over 15 countries are undertaking EQ-5D studies using Professor Devlin's methods to inform decisions on pricing and provision of new medicines. These developments have been achieved through active dissemination to the academic community and governments and through Professor Devlin's scientific leadership of the European Quality of Life (EuroQol) Group. The impact of this research is highly significant in improving health and health care decision-making and has had wide reach throughout the UK and in many other countries.

Submitting Institution

City University, London

Unit of Assessment

Economics and Econometrics

Summary Impact Type

Political

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services
Economics: Applied Economics

Improving Mental Capital and Wellbeing: A Foresight Programme.

Summary of the impact

Professor Cary Cooper as chair of the Science Coordination team of a government Foresight programme led the development of evidence-based policy and a longer-term vision to optimise `Mental Capital and Wellbeing in the UK in the 21st Century'. He was also lead scientist on one of its five programme pathways — `Work and Wellbeing'. The MCW Foresight findings showed that in England alone, mental ill health costs the economy £77bn a year, demonstrating the significance of the research. The findings were presented to the highest levels of government in the UK and Europe, businesses, academia and interested parties. As a result there has been a significant drive and awareness to improve factors that affect wellbeing for example revised flexible working arrangements under the Children and Families Bill. Cabinet Secretary Lord Gus O'Donnell corroborates that `the report made politicians realise that they needed to care about wellbeing and that attacking mental health issues was a key way to raise wellbeing'.

Submitting Institution

Lancaster University

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Health

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences: Psychology

Improving services for Electrically Powered Indoor/Outdoor Chair (EPIOC) users

Summary of the impact

Brunel's research identified the ways in which electrically powered indoor/outdoor chair (EPIOC) use improves the quality of life (QoL) of people with disabilities; key findings have been used to inform public policy, enhance professional standards and international evidenced based guidelines for professional practice and improve the health and social welfare through the empowerment of disabled person's organisations. The impacts are based on the newly gained recognition, based on the research findings, that young people need an EPIOC to provide opportunities for social inclusion, positive risk taking behaviours, successful transition into the work environment and to enable general healthy development and capacity for independent living. Older people need EPIOCs to reduce the physical and emotional stress on elderly carers. The impacts have ensured more effective policies are developed, professional practice is enhanced and more appropriate assessment and prescription services are provided for these service users.

Submitting Institution

Brunel University

Unit of Assessment

Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy

Summary Impact Type

Technological

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

The impact of the arts and culture on public health and wellbeing in policy, research and practice. Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University

Summary of the impact

Arts for Health is a global leader in the research and development of arts and health. In 2003, it secured HM Treasury funding to research the impact of the arts on health and well-being. The Invest to Save: Arts in Health (ISP) research aimed to strengthen the capacity of the north-west regions' arts/health community, building the evidence base around the effectiveness of creativity, culture and the arts on health outcomes. The research evidenced reduced levels of stress, anxiety and depression and increased levels of eudemonic (active) well-being in those engaging with the arts, and has national and international policy dimensions.

Submitting Institution

Manchester Metropolitan University

Unit of Assessment

Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services

Housing, Care and Wellbeing in Old Age: improving the living environments of older people

Summary of the impact

Keele's research on retirement communities, care and wellbeing in old age has contributed to a transformation in the way in which housing for older people is conceived of, built and experienced across the UK (and beyond), and has led to improved quality of life for thousands of older people. It underpins national, regional and local policies; has improved stakeholder (charities, trusts, businesses) and practitioner understandings of the significance of suitable housing and care; and had direct impact on practices at Berryhill Retirement Village and, more widely, on ExtraCare — the charity who have developed and now run 14 retirement villages and 17 housing schemes, including Berryhill, across the Midlands and the North of England.

Submitting Institution

Keele University

Unit of Assessment

Social Work and Social Policy

Summary Impact Type

Political

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Public Health and Health Services
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

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