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 […]