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South Yorkshire Creative Health Conference at The Point in Doncaster. Copyright: Creative Health Boards Project, James Mulkeen, 2025.

Mobilising Community Assets

Who we are?

‘Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities’ is a research programme, in partnership with the National Centre for Creative Health, led by University College London’s Culture-Nature-Health Research Group.

Our research projects promote people-powered change, by amplifying lived experience voices. Together, we are exploring how collaborative community, cultural and nature-based activities can improve health inequalities in the UK.

It is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), including Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Medical Research Council (MRC).

The programme is funded across three phases from 2021 to 2027.

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The Mobilising programme is funded across three phases from 2021 to 2027.

In Phase one, 12 projects ran throughout 2022 focusing on how to scale up small, local approaches for addressing health inequalities.

In Phase two, 16 projects running in 2023, established cross-partner consortiums, incorporating academic, community and health system organisations.

In Phase three, 12 projects (2024-2027) are tackling entrenched and long-standing health inequalities in the UK’s poorest communities by exploring how health systems can collaborate more effectively with communities.

Find out more about our projects here.

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Research Team
Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities Research Team includes: Helen Chatterjee (UCL); Alex Coulter (NCCH); Catherine Gilmore (UCL) - Mélys Codo covering Maternity Leave ; Kiz Manley (UCL); Rabya Mughal (UCL); Linda Thomson (UCL); Jane Hearst (NCCH)

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Mobilising Community Assets

Who we are?

News & Blogs

Why conversations about ‘lived experience’ matter

What do we mean by ‘lived experience’?

Ketamine misuse in Blackpool: A Creative Health approach

Charting Our Journey: Developing a Theory of Change for the Abundance Project - MCA

Celebrating a Year of Achievements with Arts4Us

Creative Community Engagement: Taking a Closer Look at Creative & Participatory Methods in Community-Based Research

Unleashing the Power of Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities

Creating Knowledge Together – MCA Lived Experience Advisory Group contributes to essay collection

Resetting the relationship between community organisations & the government- lessons from MCA

An Exploration of the Role of Lived Experience in Researching Creative Health Research

Mobilising Community Assets (MCA) to Tackle Health Inequalities: Phase 2 Projects

Mobilising Community Assets Response to Government’s Consultation

Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities

Mobilising Community Assets - Phase 3 Projects Announced

Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities

Reflections from the Inaugural South Yorkshire Creative Health Conference

Creating Change

Rooted in Nature

Outputs

Healthy Environments & Healthy Societies: Mobilising Creative Assets for a Healthier Planet & Healthier Communities

Mobilising Community Assets – Phase 1 Case Study Synthesis

Human Henge

Weston-super-Mare Community Network

Prescribe Heritage Highland

Branching Out

Art at the Start

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