Rapid evidence scoping review: Creativity and Pathways to Subjective Wellbeing

The overarching aim of this rapid scoping review is to improve understanding of the underlying relationships between creativity, culture and wellbeing, identifying pathways that lead to wellbeing outcomes. Creativity is a broad and complex topic (Kaufman et al 2022). There is growing awareness about its potential significance for population health and wellbeing (Fancourt and Finn, 2019). This makes a focused approach to producing evidence to inform policy and practice by an interdisciplinary team of researchers timely and significant.

There are two objectives:

To conduct a rapid scoping review of the evidence on ‘Creativity and Pathways to Subjective Wellbeing’ which synthesises findings on mechanisms of change, drivers and barriers to realising wellbeing improvements through creativity.
To produce a visualisation of the key pathways or Context-Mechanism-Outcome configurations (CMOc), in a Pathways Model diagram, or similar visual representation.

The work is a collaboration between the What Works Centre for Wellbeing and the University of Arts London. It will support UAL's mission to place creativity at the heart of positive social change, using evidence to inform the creative and cultural economy in the UK and globally.

Meet the Principal Investigator(s) for the project

Professor Louise Mansfield - Career History Louise Mansfield is Professor of Sport, Health and Social Sciences and Research Lead for Welfare, Health and Wellbeing in the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies. Her research focuses on the relationship between sport, physical activity and public health and wellbeing. She is interested in partnership and community approaches in sport and physical activity and issues of health, wellbeing, inequality and diversity. She has led research projects for the Department of Health, Youth Sport Trust, sportscotland, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, Macmillan Cancer Support, Public Health England and Sport England. She sits on the editorial boards for Leisure Studies, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and is Managing Editor of Annals of Leisure Research. Louise is known for is known for developing evidence to inform policy and practice.

Related Research Group(s)

Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifecourse - Inequalities in health and wellbeing in the UK and internationally; welfare, health and wellbeing; ageing studies; health economics.

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Project last modified 13/12/2023