Centre for Arts & Health
Through collaborative, arts based participatory research, the Centre for Arts & Health at Falmouth contributes to critical scholarship at a crucial point in time for our health and wellbeing.
We’re developing and embedding impactful research within interdisciplinary spaces where art, science, technology, community and entrepreneurship collaborate – reflective of the complex elements that constitute health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Projects within this Centre
Springboard Studios
Can participation in non-assessed, altruistic, creative learning experiences in blue spaces, contrib...
ATTUNE
ATTUNE aims to increase the understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the impact on ...
The South West Centre of Excellence for Satellite Applications
The South West Centre of Excellence for Satellite Applications is developing space-focused research ...
The Sowenna project
The Sowenna Project is developing a VR environment with young people who have mental health problems...
Connected Health Care: Satellite Enabled Mental Health, Diabetes and Clinical Education
The project aims to deliver secure satellite connected infrastructure to transform the rural health ...
Centre overview
The global pandemic has raised awareness of the significant contribution that culturally diverse art forms play in both scholarship within health and wellbeing research, but also in policy considerations and solutions to the enduring health and wellbeing challenges we face today.
Our research surfaces the unseen and unheard, reaching into the communities frequently without voice. By harnessing the powerful potential of creative arts and participatory processes within multiple interdisciplinary spaces, the Centre for Arts and Health seeks to explore, contribute to and create paradigm shifts within health, care, communities and the arts themselves.
Our research approach is formed around the National Centre for Creative Health’s definition of Creative Health as ‘creating the conditions and opportunities for arts, creativity and culture to be embedded in the health of the public’.
We welcome all partners, advocates and researchers into our centre to join forces and lead arts based participatory research into the mainstream of health, care and wellbeing.
Anna Mankee-Williams
Centre Lead
Anna has 22 years’ experience in the health sector (RGN, RM, RHV,) Specialist Community Practitioner/Practice Educator, Public Health children's lead and 11 years’ experience in Local Government in senior roles including Head of Service Commissioning Performance and Improvement across children’s and adults services.
Read Mankee-Williams' full profileResearch news
ATTUNE x Aardman Animations: New video focuses on young people's mental health
10 October 2023
In recognition of World Mental Health Day 2023, young participants of ATTUNE have released a video h...
Connected Health Care team shares project research at REWIRED 2022
07 April 2022
Researchers from The Connected Health Care team presented at the Digital Health REWIRED Conference i...
Provost Eunice Ma discusses mental health project on BBC podcast
21 January 2022
Professor Minhua Eunice Ma, Provost of Falmouth University, spoke to Dr Daisy Fancourt and Professor...
Connected Health Care research project enters exciting new phase
12 November 2021
The Connected Health Care research project is calling on unpaid carers to come forward and participa...
Blending creativity with technology to tackle trauma in young people
28 June 2021
Academic researchers from Oxford University have teamed up with Falmouth University to deliver ATTUN...
Falmouth and the UK Space Agency work together to amplify the voice of carers
11 June 2021
With Carers Week 2021 underway, Falmouth University’s ground-breaking project&nbs...
Meet the women bridging the digital divide
12 March 2021
The Connected Health Care (CHC) project seeks to provide a digital infrastructure for primary care, ...
Research opportunities
Research collaboration
We welcome collaboration ideas from researchers, industry and third sector organisations which explore the Research Centre's mission.
If you have a research collaboration idea and would like to discuss it with our team you can get in touch via email.
Research degrees
We accept proposals for MPhil or PhD study from applicants with a project idea of their own which aligns with the aims of the Centre for Arts & Health, or as a response to one of our associated Falmouth Doctoral Project briefs below.
Find out more about the application process for MPhil or PhD study with us on our Research Degrees pages:
Digital healthcare interfaces
This doctoral project develops on existing research that utilises 3D scanning technology to capture ...
Work by Deborah Bunce
Re-thinking diagnosis: an artistic approach to diagnosis in mental health
The aim of this practice-led research project is to contribute to existing knowledge surrounding...
