Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025 Webinar
The Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025 event hosted on Wednesday 28th January 2026 brought together researchers, practitioners, and organisations to showcase and reflect on creative health research published during 2025. Led by the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) in partnership with the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), this first annual round-up highlights the breadth, quality, and real-world relevance of creative health evidence across the UK.
Alongside this live event, NCCH has published a report summarises all eligible submissions from the Research call-out in clear, accessible language, supporting practitioners, policymakers, and commissioners to engage with and apply the latest evidence Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025 Report: https://ncch.org.uk/resources/creative-health-research-round-up-2025-report
Welcome and housekeeping Alex Coulter, Director of NCCH and Professor Susan Hogan, Chair of RSPH Arts & Health SIG
- Presentation 1 Speaker: Dr Lynette Meredith, Specialist Clinical Psychologist. Research: Crafting Lyrics, Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Role of Rap Music in Facilitating Mental Health Expression among Black Men in the UK
- Presentation 2 Speaker: Dr Thania Acarón, Director & Dance Movement Psychotherapist, The Body Hotel CIC; Course Leader, MA Arts, Health & Wellbeing, University of South Wales. Research: The Body Hotel Self-Care Suite: Evaluation
- Presentation 3 Speaker: Dr Charlotte Hemingway, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Research: ReCITE: a theory of change for health equity through creative health
- Presentation 4 Speaker: Dr Katie Hazelgrove, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, King's College London. Research: Clinical effectiveness, implementation effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a community singing intervention for postnatal depressive symptoms, SHAPER-PND: randomised controlled trial Presentation 5 Speaker: Dr Chloe Bradwell, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University, Centre for Dementia Research. Research: (not) lovely: Enacting solidarity in dementia care through participatory Arts
- Presentation 6 Speaker: Miss Sophie Beckett, Public Health Research Officer, Birmingham Museums Trust. Research: Using Oral Histories: A Methodology for Public Health Advocacy
- Presentation 7 Speaker: Professor Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts. Research: Abundance Project Interim Findings Report
Q&A We were joined by additional Research speakers for the Q&A including:
Dawn Holford, Amina Ismail, Aidan Jolly, Mike Morris: ReCITE: a theory of change for health equity through creative health
Lorna Greenwood (Breathe Arts Health Research): Clinical effectiveness, implementation effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a community singing intervention for postnatal depressive symptoms, SHAPER-PND: randomised controlled trial