Resources and Outputs
At Creative Manchester we can showcase our impact through a wide range of outputs from projects and collaborations across our research themes. These include videos, toolkits and activities, exhibitions and other creative materials, reports, articles and briefs.
The importance of music: Co-creating a vinyl record sleeve. Part of the NIHR SSCR study ‘The impact of an improvised music-making programme on care home staff well-being'.
Videos
Please explore our YouTube playlists to find out more about the work that we do in each of our research themes.
We also have a series of playlists highlighting other key areas of Creative Manchester’s work:
Toolkits and Activities
This toolkit was written by Dr Rebecca Hurst and explores her experience using creative writing as a creative intervention in a healthcare setting. It includes an exercise book and worksheet for use by practitioners and artists interested in running creative writing wellbeing workshops.
Crafting Connections: a heritage for wellbeing toolkit. These activities have been developed for use with groups of older people over 55 but can be enjoyed by any adult.
Creative Materials
In 2024 Creative Manchester produced a series of exhibition posters for the UMRI funded Air Space Project.
The exhibition showcased original pieces by project participants, sketches based on the exhibition was showcased in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor Exhibition Space in Summer 2024 and several of the exhibition panels were shown as part of the Wild Researchers Night at Manchester Musuem in Autumn 2024.
As part of the Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) engagement of the recently completed NIHR SSCR study ‘The impact of an improvised music-making programme on care home staff well-being'.
Researchers at The University of Manchester came together with the Open Doors Research Group, and graphic designer A Studio Called Jane, to co-create a vinyl record sleeve exploring the importance of musical moments to people living with dementia.
Find out more about the project.
Reports
2024
- Participatory Arts Based Participatory Research Approaches in Cultural Partnerships with Creative Manchester (August 2024, Full Version)
- Placeholders Report
- Arts, Culture and Heritage: Audiences and Workforce - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
2022
- Culture in Crisis: impacts of Covid-19 on the UK cultural sector and where we go from here - CultureHive
- Creative Majority | King’s Culture | King’s College London
Articles
- Creating and Reliving the Moment: Using Musical Improvisation and Care Aesthetics as a Lens of Connection and Self-Expression for Younger People Living with Dementia. By Robyn Dowlen, Henry McPherson, Caroline Swarbrick, Lizzie Hoskin, James Thompson, John Keady.
- Music in Mind Training: Producing a theory of change model to evaluate the implementation of an improvisation-based music-making training programme for care home staff working with people with dementia. Henry McPherson, Robyn Dowlen, Caroline Bithell, Alexander Gagatsis, Alys Young, Lizzie Hoskin, Max Thomas, Cathy Riley, John Keady.
- Creative Improvement Districts A paper exploring a new model of culture-led regeneration
- Humour and the Commodification of Suffering article UDA: This article by Research Fellow Chrisoula Lionis published in Third Text demonstrates how humor in contemporary art contributes to three forms of cultural resilience: ‘authenticity’, ‘enactment’, and ‘placemaking’.