UK Timeline 1997 – 2021
Use the Timeline to scroll through and preview over twenty years of significant UK publications permanently archived in the Repository.
Click on any year to see the summaries of all the reports for that particular year and to get full details or copies where available as downloads.
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Use or Ornament? The social impact of participation in the arts
This report is the first large-scale attempt, in the UK, to explore the social impacts of participation in the arts.
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Policy Action Team 10: The contribution of Sport and the Arts
Landmark UK government policy document on the role of arts, sport and leisure in addressing social exclusion. One of 10 Policy Action Team reports covering key areas of social exclusion identified by the Labour Government in their first term of office (1997-2001).
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Art for Health: A review of good practice in community-based arts projects and initiatives which impact on health and wellbeing
The earliest survey conducted on arts organisations to gather information on their work in relation to community participation, skill development and regeneration promoting health.
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Building on PAT10: Progress Report on Social Inclusion
A key document providing an update on progress following recommendations from the Policy Action Team 10 report (1999) on arts, sport and leisure in neighbourhood renewal.
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Arts, health and wellbeing: From the Windsor I conference to a Nuffield forum for the medical humanities
This report summarises the outcome of the Nuffield Trust Windsor I and II conferences on the Arts, Humanities and Medicine held in March, 1998 and September 1999 respectively.
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A study of the effects of visual and performing arts in health care
The first attempt in the UK to evaluate the contribution of visual and performing arts in hospital settings.
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A literature review of the evidence base for culture, the arts and sport policy
A wide-ranging review concerned with the social impacts of cultural and arts engagement and sports participation.
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Your health and the arts: A study of the association between arts engagement and health
This report presents key findings on the associations between engagement in the arts, health and illness – it is Arts Council England’s second contribution to strengthening the evidence base.
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Quality of life and well-being: Measuring the benefits of culture and sport: Literature review and thinkpiece
A Scottish Executive research report to define “quality of life” (QOL) in the context of culture, arts and sport and explore ways in which the impact on QOL and sense of well-being can be identified and measured, both in social and economic terms.
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Mental health, social inclusion and arts: Developing the evidence base
Report of research developing the evidence base for participatory arts and mental health: this study focused on participatory arts projects in England for people aged 16 to 65 with mental health needs.
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Evaluation of Art-Lift: A partnership arts and health project
The final evaluation report of a partnership arts and health project to make a case for long term funding for Arts and Health work in a range of healthcare settings.
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Arts on prescription in Sefton
A programme evaluation of a participatory arts course combining a range of quantitative and qualitative data acquisition tools to demonstrate significant reductions in depression and anxiety.
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Creative ageing: A practical exploration of the arts in the healthcare of older people
A research study of a specifically designed programme of arts participation for older people diagnosed with dementia living within a supported residential setting.
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Final Report. Consultancy work to support the development of a national forum for arts & health
A report to consider the potential for a visible, recognised and authoritative national body for arts and health and its core purpose.
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Be creative, be well: Arts, wellbeing and local communities: An evaluation
An independent evaluation of the ‘Be Creative Be Well’ programme, looking at the impact that the quality of the arts and cultural activity can have in community engagement and in improving health and wellbeing.
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Arts, health and wellbeing beyond the Millennium: How far have we come and where do we want to go?
This report gives an overview of the arts and health field, with particular reference to the UK and New Zealand. It provides a review of the evidence for the benefits of the arts to health, as well as the policy context of commissioning arts and health initiatives.
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The value of the arts in therapeutic and clinical interventions: A critical review of the literature
This report presents an updated critical review of literature on the value of the arts in clinical and therapeutic interventions.
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Cultural Activities, Art Forms and Wellbeing
This Arts Council England report resents findings on the relationships between cultural engagement and momentary wellbeing using experience sampling dataset gathered through the Mappiness phone app.
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Arts for health and wellbeing: An evaluation framework
This document provides guidance on appropriate ways of documenting the impacts of arts for health and wellbeing, whether through small scale project evaluations or large scale research studies.
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Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing
This Inquiry Report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW) presents the findings of two years of research, evidence-gathering and discussions with patients, health and social care professionals, artists and arts administrato...Featured publication
Creative and Cultural Activities and Wellbeing in Later Life
A new report from Age UK outlines the importance for us all of participating in creative and cultural activities to maintain our wellbeing and feel good as we get older, building on Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life, which found that taking part in ‘creative activities’ such as the arts is closely lin...
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The Cultural Learning Evidence Champion’s Handbook
This RSA handbook is a guide to getting to grips with what is called the ‘evidence agenda’ in arts and cultural learning – it is designed to make it easier to ‘do’ evidence and evaluation.
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Loneliness Annual Report The first year
The Government’s first Annual Report on tackling loneliness provides a progress update since the publication of the cross-government Loneliness Strategy in October 2018.