About this event

NCACE’s Evidence Café sessions have been held regularly since March 2021. The café is an online space for presentations, evidence and information sharing, story-telling as well as a community of knowledge sharing and exchange.

The focus for November’s café will be on Arts and Health, acting as a showcase for some examples of how research and creative practice is positively impacting public health and individual wellbeing. We will hear about research supporting innovative policy change within the Contemporary Dance sector, an animation for creative public health, and an artistic collaboration increasing support for young people with Type 1 Diabetes.

This session provides a platform for our cross-sector audiences to shine a light on how partners from HE and the arts and culture sector are collaborating to respond to wellbeing and health issues using creative and innovative practice. This session also relates to and generates evidence around one of our four core NCACE themes: Health and Wellbeing.

Alongside presentations from various speakers, there will be plenty of opportunity for group input. We are particularly interested in hearing from our attendees, so please do share any evidence, case-studies or other materials you may have on your own, or your institutions’ health-related collaborations either before, during or after the session.

This Evidence Café will also set the scene for our Annual Policy Workshop next June which will further augment this aspect of our work.

Our contributors include: Professor Paul Crawford (Nottingham), Professor Angela Pickard (Canterbury Christ Church University) and Katija Stiller (Breathe Creative), and will be co-hosted by Dr Laura Kemp (NCACE Senior Manager) and Evelyn Wilson (NCACE Co-Director). Bring your tea, your notebook and as many ideas as you want.

NCACE is an initiative led by TCCE and funded by Research England to facilitate and support capacity for Knowledge Exchange between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sector across the UK, with a particular focus on evidencing and showcasing the social, cultural, environmental, as well as economic, impacts of such activities.

NCACE Evidence Café is part of our wider Evidence Hub activities which creates spaces and brings together resources to help us to better document the scale, extent, nature and drivers of knowledge exchange collaborations between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the arts and cultural sector. The NCACE Evidence Repository complements these activities with a collection of open access resources on Cultural Knowledge Exchange, and contains a section dedicated to Health and Wellbeing.