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Content: Creative and nature engagements, can greatly benefit human health and wellbeing. Through exploring how to measure and evaluate the health impact of such ‘asset-based’ interventions, this module will challenge students to reflect on different cultural conceptions of health and illness. They will gain first-hand experience through a range of creative practice workshops, facilitated by leading practitioners and contextualised through theory-based seminars focusing on the social determinants of health, social prescribing, as well as asset based notions of cultural capital and health creation. As a key outcome, students will conduct their own research on a key topic in, by carrying out a rapid evidence review.

Teaching delivery: This module comprises one two-hour seminar and one three-hour workshop over the ten weeks of term1, as welll as two additional two-hour worksops in term 2.Ìý

Indicative topics (based on content in 2023/24):

• Week 1: the social determinants of healthÌý
• Week 2: Nature and healthÌý
• Week 3: Visual arts & healthÌý
• Week 4: Embodied approaches to healthÌý
• Week 5: Cultural heritage and wellbeingÌý
• Week 6: Rapid Evidecne ReviewsÌý
• Week 7: Social policy approaches to creative healthÌý
• Week 8: The evidence baseÌý
• Week 9: Cross Cultural personectives on health and illnessÌý
• Week 10: Film medicineÌý

Module aims:

1. To provide students with an understanding of the social and cultural determinants of health, introducing them to key notions such as asset based notions of cultural capital and health creation, further contextualised by an awareness of the influence of cultural beliefs and behaviours on notions of health, illness and healing.Ìý
2. To offer opportunities for alternative ways of learning through first-hand experience of creative and nature-based activities.ÌýÌý
3. To encourage reflective practice, critical thinking and the ability to communicate in a range of formatsÌý
4. To encourage independent and self-directed research, and engaging with an evaluative task assessing the quality of evidence in a core area of creative health.ÌýÌý

Recommended readings:

• APPG 2017: Creative Health ReportÌý
• Fancurt 2017. Arts in HealthÌý
• Kador & Chatterjee 2021. Object-based learning and wellbeingÌý

Additional costs: There will be a number of trips away from the UCL East Campus, including to the Bloomsbury campus and outer locations around London. All of them will be within TFL zones 1-3. Students will be required to fund this travel themselves.

This module is largely taught at the UCL EAST campus in Stratford.