St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub Creative Health Strategy
Today, 19 June 2025, North East London Health and Care Partnership published St George’s Creative Health Strategy. Researched and written by Rebecca, the strategy provides a template for embedding the arts into every aspect of this innovative health and wellbeing hub. Read St George’s Creative Health Strategy here. The strategy is organised across three strands: […]
Shaping the Future of Creative Health: Innovation and Collaboration
On Tuesday 27 May 2025, Rebecca will be taking part in a panel discussion as part of a one-day conference organised as part of the MASc in Creative Health at University College London. This year’s conference theme, ‘Shaping the Future of Creative Health: Innovation and Collaboration’, will highlight the power of interdisciplinary approaches to transforming health […]
Case Study: St George’s Creative Health Strategy
A case study has been published, outlining how St George’s Creative Health Strategy was developed and offering glimpses of its content.
A Taste of Creativity and Culture at St George’s
Rebecca is devising an arts strategy for St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch (London Borough of Havering). To inform the eventual programme, Rebecca is working with London Arts and Health and Havering Liberty Primary Care Network to coordinate an arts taster day. On national Social Prescribing Day, come and help to shape the […]
In Conversation with Gordon Raphael
Creative health is happening everywhere! Join me in conversation with music producer Gordon Raphael on Friday 29 November as we talk about why the arts are good for you. Book your free ticket here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/culturart
A Creative Health Service
How to thrive, not just survive, in a changing health care system On 21 September 2024, I’m going to be speaking at a public event at Darwent Valley Hospital. This free, immersive and participatory event is for health care professionals and trainees, as well as artists, policy makers and others interested in the future of […]
NEW REPORT: Understanding Creative Health in London
A new report I’ve written for the Greater London Authority, with research support from London Arts and Health, will be launched next month. Understanding Creative Health in London covers the evolution, scale, character and maturity of the creative health sector in the capital. Spanning several centuries, the report takes a deep dive into the contemporary […]
Taking the Creative out of Scotland (August 2009)
This evening, in Edinburgh, the new landmark organisation for promoting culture in Scotland will be revealed, but the chances are that you won’t have been invited to the launch, especially if you are a creative practitioner. Creative Scotland, as this new organisation will be known, is a hybrid creature – a replacement of Scottish Screen […]
Creative Health Research Symposium: Thoughts
I was invited to speak at the University of Manchester’s Creative Health Research Symposium on 27 June 2024. Reading through my notes on the morning of the symposium – about recent research and gaps in the evidence – I decided to end with a short plea to creative health research commissioners: Research is a vital part […]
Creative Health Research Symposium
On 27 June, I’ll be speaking at a symposium about the very latest in creative health research organised by the University of Manchester. There will be some great contributors, including Hannah Waterson, Research and Policy Manager at the National Centre for Creative Health, who drafted the report arising from the recent Creative Health Review. Support […]