• Improving mental healthcare environments
  A new report by mental health charity Mind highlights key concerns regarding the often negative impact mental health environments have on our mental wellbeing. In light of the research, Mind has compiled a list of key recommendations.
  
  To view the report visit:
  www.mind.org.uk/News+policy+and+campaigns/Campaigns/building/Improving+mh+environments.htm
  
  
• Designing for Health: Architecture, Art and Design at the James Cook University Hospital
  Jane Mcnaughton, Mike White, Dr. Peter Collins, Professor Simon Coleman, Geoffrey Purves, Dr. Peter Kellet, Anu Soukas, Karen Taylor, Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005
  www.dur.ac.uk/resources/cahhm/reports/JCUH%20FINAL%20Feb05.pdf
  
  
• Evaluation of the King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme
  NHS Estates, Kings Fund, 2003
  www.kingsfund.org.uk/funding/enhancing_the_healing_environment/evaluation_and.html
  
  
• The architectural healthcare environment and its effects on patient health outcomes a report on an NHS Estates funded research project
  Bryan Lawson, Michael Phiri and John Wells-Thorpe, NHS Estates 2003
  ISBN10 011322480X
  The publication can be purchased from:
  www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?FO=1160007&Action=Book&ProductID=011322480X&From=Subject
  
  
• A comparative Study of the Impact of Environmental Design upon Hospital Patients and Staff
  Dr Phil Leather, Diane Beale, Laura Lee, 2000
  
  For more information please contact:
  Dr Phil Leather on Tel: +44 (0)115 84 66638 or E-mail: phil.leather@nottingham.ac.uk
  Diane Beale on Tel: +44 (0)115 84 66644 or E-mail: diane.beale@nottingham.ac.uk

• Interim Evaluation of ‘Music into Upton' (2006)
  Evaluation of project bringing live music into elderly ward setting in Upton Hospital.
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/completed-projects.asp
  
  
• Promoting Mental Health Through Accessing the Arts
  Douglas McQueen-Thomson and Christopher Ziguras 2002
  Vic Health
  A literature review focussing on Community Arts Practice for Vic Health, Victoria state’s health promotion agency in Australia (www.vichealth.vic.gov.au), by The Globalism Institute at RMIT University – Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing:
  www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/en/Resource-Centre/Publications-and-Resources/Mental-health-and-wellbeing/Social-connection/Promoting-mental-health-through-accessing-the-arts.aspx
  
  
• The Music Start Project (2006)
  Evaluation of music and activity project with 0-5 year-olds in families and Early Years settings across the whole of the Isle of Wight.
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/completed-projects.asp
  
  
• Arts in Health – A review of the medical literature
  Dr Rosalia Lelchuk Staricoff, Arts Council England, 2004
  ISBN: 0 7287 1044 7
  www.artscouncil.org.uk/documents/publications/php7FMawE.doc
  
  
• Your health and the arts: a study of the association between arts engagement and health
  Dr Joy Windsor, 2005
  ISBN: 0 7287 1070 6
  This report presents key findings on the associations between engagement in the arts, health and illness. The executive summary is attached as a word document and the full report can be downloaded from
  www.artscouncil.org.uk/publications/publication_detail.php?browse=title&id=462&page=18
  
  
• The Sound Start Project (2002)
  Evaluation of the benefits mothers felt they and their infants gained from participation in music and singing.
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/completed-projects.asp
  
  
• The impact of the arts: some research evidence
  2004
  This document draws together research evidence on the impact of the arts on employment, education, health, criminal justice and regeneration.
  ISBN: 0 7287 1024 2
  www.artscouncil.org.uk/documents/publications/phpu4qyJQ.doc
  
  
• Measuring the economic and social impact of the arts.
  Michelle Reeves, 2002
  Assesses different models and methods of measuring the economic and social impact of the arts, and the quality and appropriateness of existing research methods.
  ISBN: 0 7287 08736
  www.artscouncil.org.uk/documents/publications/340.pdf
  
  
• The Music Start Project: Evaluation of an Isle of Wight Early Years Music Initiative
  Clift, S., Mackenzie, K. and Bushell, F. (2006). Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University.
  ISBN: 1899 253 48 2
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/arts-health.asp
  
  
• A Study of the Effects of the Visual and Performing Arts in Healthcare
  Rosalia Lelchuk Stariocoff, Jane P. Duncan, Melissa Wright, 2003
  A downloadable version of this document can be found on the Chelsea and Westminster website. Follow the links on the left to hospital arts and scroll down the page.
  www.chelwest.nhs.uk/documents/about_documents/arts_docs/Research%20project%20final%20version%20King%27s%20Fund%202004%20-%20edited.doc
  
  
• Arts, Health and Community – A Study of Five Arts in Community Health Projects
  Angela Everitt &Ruth Hamilton, 2003
  www.dur.ac.uk/resources/cahhm/reports/Arts%20Health%20%26%20Community.pdf
  
  
• Making Singing for Health Happen: Reflections on a 'Singing for the Brain' Training Course
  Bamford, A. (2006), Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University.
  ISBN: 1899 253 48 3
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/arts-health.asp
  
  
• Music into Upton: Reflections on an Initiative to Bring Live Music into a Hospital Setting
  Bamford, A. (2006). Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University.
  ISBN: 1899 253 53 X
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/arts-health.asp
  
  
• Use or Ornament? The Social Impact of Participation in the Arts
  Francois Matarasso, Comedia, 1997
  ISBN: 1 873667 57 4
  www.comedia.org.uk/pages/pdf/downloads/use_or_ornament.pdf
  
  
• Arts and social exclusion: a review prepared for the Arts Council of England
  Helen Jermyn, 2001
  Literature review commissioned by the Arts Council to support its two-year social inclusion research programme. It examines the impact of arts in addressing social exclusion.
  ISBN: 0 7287 0861 2
  www.artscouncil.org.uk/documents/publications/298.doc
  
  
• Southampton Silver Song Club: Reflections on Music Making with Elderly People Facilitated by Student Volunteers
  Bamford, A. (2006). Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University.
  ISBN: 1899 253 58 0
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/arts-health.asp
  
  
• Singing and Health: Summary of a Systematic Mapping and Review of Non-Clinical Research
  Clift, S., Hancox, G., Staricoff, R. and Whitmore, C. (2008). Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University.
  ISBN: 978-1-899253-30-2
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/arts-health.asp
  
  
• A review of evaluation in community-based art for health activity in the UK 2001
  John Angus
  The health Development Agency (no longer functioning) commissioned this report from The Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine at The University of Durham in 2001
  www.dur.ac.uk/resources/cahhm/reports/CAHHM%20for%20HDA%20J%20Angus.pdf
  
  
• An Evaluation of Sorts: Learning from Common Knowledge
  Tom Smith, CAHHM, 2003
  www.dur.ac.uk/resources/cahhm/reports
  
  
• Choral Singing, Wellbeing and Health: Summary of Findings from a Cross-national Survey
  Clift, S., Hancox, G., Morrison, I., Hess, B., Stewart, D. and Kreutz, G. (2008). Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University.
  ISBN: 978-1-899253-31-9
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/arts-health.asp
  
  
• Arts and Mental Health Literature Review
  CAHHM, 2003
  www.dur.ac.uk/resources/cahhm/reports
  
  
• ....as Broadcast in Beijing: A Social Impact Study
  by Gerri Moriarty and Roger Hill 2001
  ...as Broadcast in Beijing was published by Merseyside ACME in 2001, and is widely recognised as being an important social impact study.
  ISBN : 0953825418
  www.merseysideacme.com/displaypage.asp?page=98
  
  
• The Silver Song Club Project: Summary of a Formative Evaluation
  Bungay, H. and Skingley, A. (2008). Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University.
  ISBN: 978-1-899253-32-6
  
  This link will take you to the Sydney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health.
  www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/arts-health.asp
  
  
• The power of art visual arts: evidence of impact
  Arts Council England 2006
  An analysis and a set of case studies to illustrate the impact of contemporary visual arts in regeneration, health, education and learning. Drawing on research by Prevista Ltd evidence is presented of the impact and twenty case studies provide detailed pictures of contemporary artists engaging with communities to achieve a range and diversity of outcomes.
  ISBN: 0 7287 1187 7
  www.artscouncil.org.uk/publications/publication_detail.php?rid=0&sid=&browse=recent&id=527