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Findings from the research project Covid-19 Care: Culture and the Arts: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region

Report: COVID-19 | Care Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region

This report presents new evidence on the value and importance of arts and culture in everyday life, and on the effectiveness of changes to provision made by arts and cultural organisations to maintain links with vulnerable and isolated communities

Report: COVID-19 | Care Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region

This report presents new evidence on the value and importance of arts and culture in everyday life, and on the effectiveness of changes to provision made by arts and cultural organisations to maintain links with vulnerable and isolated communities

LivCare Publications

Journal Article | Regional Innovation in Arts Provision Spawned by COVID-19: “It Became a Lifeline for a Lot of People Who Are Stuck at Home”

Policy Brief | Responding to COVID-19 in the Liverpool City Region: The Mental Health Impact of Restricted Access to Arts and Culture

Policy Brief | The Mental Health Impact of Restricted Access to Arts and Culture

Other key research centres and publications

A plan to transform the UK through arts and culture. Bringing people together, making them happier and healthier.

A research hub, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to understand contribution of the arts to COVID research and recovery. Summary of findings in their final project report.

The first major UK research project dedicated to investigating the accessibility and inclusion implications of the rapid growth in online arts and culture during the pandemic.

A national membership organisation representing everyone who believes that creativity and cultural engagement can transform our health and wellbeing.

Formed in response to the Creative Health report to advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration.

Dedicated to the advancement of social prescribing through promotion, collaboration and innovation: championing the work of local communities in connecting people for wellbeing.

An online, searchable database, housing over seven hundred documents that chart the development of the Arts and Health movement in the UK and internationally, from 1996 onwards.

Building a shared understanding of the differences that arts, culture, heritage and screen make to people’s lives and to society.

Based in the Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health at University College London.