Culture and health
Goals:
- To contribute to developing new knowledge and new insights into the connections between arts, culture, health and wellbeing
- To survey and document existing arts and health initiatives
- To explore the inherent value of art in health work
- To explore the importance of the teaching artist in art and health work
Members:
- Professor Wenche Torrissen (leader)
- Associate professor Marit Ulvund
- Professor Helga Synnevåg Løvoll
- Professor emeritus Magnar Åm
- University lecturer Borghild Otelie Aasebøstøl
- University lecturer Hege Holmqvist Synnes
- Senior lecturer Vibeke Preus
- Senior lecturer Øystein Salhus
- ph.d-student Eleanor Dodson
National and international partners:
- Associate professor Theodor Stickley, University of Nottingham
- Ph.D Anita Jensen, Hans Knudsen Instituttet
- Professor Anita Salamonsen, UiT Norges Arktiske universitet
The research group's activities:
The research group has meetings where we discuss the members' research project and article drafts.
The research group contributes to publishing the Nordic Journal of arts, culture and health, a journal published by the Scandinavian University press twice a year. https://www.idunn.no/journal/njach
The research group is involved in the Nordic Arts & Health research network. The network has organized a conference and two network meetings in 2022, which the research group has helped to organize.
- Arts & Health Policies, 10 May 2022 in Stockholm (Conference)
- Arts & Health Policies, 11 May 2022 in Stockholm (Network meeting)
- Creative Wellbeing, 6-7 October in Levanger (Network meeting)
In 2023, the research group will contribute to organise two network meetings:
- Arts and public health. May 2023 in Malmö
- Arts and health futures. November 2023 in Helsinki
For more information see: https://nordicartshealth.turkuamk.fi/
The research group is now working on a major international publication related to Creative wellbeing in collaboration with three of the departments at HVO.
Research questions:
- What are the connections between arts, culture, health and well-being?
- How does arts and culture provide health?
- How can arts and culture be to used in a strength-oriented approach to promote "subjective well-being"?
- What does culture and health initiatives mean for marginalized groups?
- How is arts and culture used in health and care today (mapping)
- Are there differences in health effects between participatory and receptive cultural consumption?
- What common features can the artistic languages bring in as important factors to support health and well-being?
- How can teaching artists support the health and wellbeing of students?