Summary of the impact

The Widening Young Male Participation in Chorus research project has resulted in significant changes in international practice in choral work with 11-14 year old boys, commonly referred to in the literature as the "missing males".

• A direct result of the underpinning research is the creation of new boys' choirs, the inclusion of under-represented groups such as white, working class boys and improved pedagogical practice in secondary schools. These results are seen in the UK and as far afield as Africa and Australia.
• The research has been recommended by the Department for Education/Department for Culture Media and Sport through the National Music Plan which lists the project website.
• The research findings have been adopted by the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD) and has shaped the work of conductors through ABCD's training and apprenticeship schemes.
• Composers and arrangers have written music following the research guidance.

Summary of the impact

Professor Anna Furse's Practice-as-Research on Assisted Reproduction Technologies [A.R.T.s] incorporates artistic design and educational materials to raise awareness of medical, ethical and emotional issues surrounding subfertility, addressing public ignorance, prejudice and taboo. When she published her bestseller Your Essential Infertility Companion, A.R.T.s were rarely discussed from the patient perspective, debate being dominated by media sensationalism and misinformation. Her subsequent critically acclaimed production projects, articulating subfertiles' plights and rights, contributed culturally to shifting public understanding. The Peach Child became an internationally popular children's play, while My Glass Body (a commissioned drama for BBC Radio) was broadcast twice — additional outputs extending the reach of the project to multigenerational lay as well as academic publics.