Outputs (23)

Understanding fitness professionals’ weight biases and uptake of weight-inclusive practices: Findings from a mixed-methods survey (2024)
Journal Article

Weight bias is highly prevalent in the fitness industry, posing significant challenges for fat people seeking to engage in health-promoting behaviours, such as physical activity. Despite small ideological shifts in the fitness industry towards more w... Read More about Understanding fitness professionals’ weight biases and uptake of weight-inclusive practices: Findings from a mixed-methods survey.

Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Reducing anxiety and depression of adolescents is a global health priority. Personal and social resources (e.g., hobbies, socializing) may reduce distress. Yet, there is insufficient understanding of how adolescents use such resources to... Read More about Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study.

Developing an evaluation strategy in Kashmir: Assessing the impact of an arts intervention with school children in an area of conflict (2024)
Journal Article

This 'in practice' article describes and reflects on the mixed methodology used in a realist evaluation of the impact of an arts intervention for children (aged 10-15) in a school in Kashmir, an area of conflict. The evaluation focused on art based... Read More about Developing an evaluation strategy in Kashmir: Assessing the impact of an arts intervention with school children in an area of conflict.

"I am secretary, therapist, maid, nurse”: Experiences of caring for a family member with a BPD diagnosis (2024)
Thesis

Informal caring is an increasingly common phenomenon, with many taking on supportive roles for their friends and family. It is important that carers have their voices heard, and their perspectives represented; however, experiences of mental health ca... Read More about "I am secretary, therapist, maid, nurse”: Experiences of caring for a family member with a BPD diagnosis.

Mental health of social media influencers (2024)
Journal Article

There is a wide body of research on the effects of social media use on mental health, particularly focusing on young people. However, very little is known about the mental health of social media influencers (SMIs), who also tend to be quite young. Th... Read More about Mental health of social media influencers.

The impact of Arts on Prescription on individual health and wellbeing: A systematic review with meta-analysis (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction: The evidence-base for the impact of participating in the arts for different aspects of health and wellbeing is growing. Arts on Prescription has gained increasing recognition as a method for fostering connections among individuals and c... Read More about The impact of Arts on Prescription on individual health and wellbeing: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

The impact of Arts on Prescription on individual health and wellbeing: A systematic review with meta-analysis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aims of project: The evidence-base for the impact of participating in the arts for health and wellbeing is growing. Arts on Prescription (AoP) has gained recognition as a method for fostering connections among individuals and communities, however, to... Read More about The impact of Arts on Prescription on individual health and wellbeing: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

Art on prescription: Supporting wellbeing in cities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk for the WHO Healthy Cities Network contributed to a webinar on the arts on health in cities. This talk focused on the role of social prescribing, in particular arts on prescription, presenting research based in Bristol on the use of arts on... Read More about Art on prescription: Supporting wellbeing in cities.

The role of GBGI in levelling up in Bristol (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We examined the association between provision and experience of a range of green-blue-grey infrastructure and neighbourhood satisfaction, life satisfaction, wellbeing and general health. We found that satisfaction with greenspace was the most consist... Read More about The role of GBGI in levelling up in Bristol.

The role of GBGI in levelling up in Bristol: A secondary analysis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This poster summarises the results of our analysis of green-blue-grey infrastructure in relation to health and social outcomes in Bristol.

An exploration of greenspace metric proximity and NDVI vs configurational accessibility from residential postcodes in the West of England (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Greenspaces are recognised as important features of an urban environment which are visited by residents for different purposes. This paper investigates the relationship between residents in the West of England and their surrounding greenspaces, by st... Read More about An exploration of greenspace metric proximity and NDVI vs configurational accessibility from residential postcodes in the West of England.

Student loneliness: A study of UWE Bristol students’ loneliness experience and coping strategies (2024)
Report

Loneliness is a concern among university students. Although there are numerous studies on loneliness, many focus on a single aspect of this unpleasant feeling. The present research looked at loneliness from different angles: the extent and forms of l... Read More about Student loneliness: A study of UWE Bristol students’ loneliness experience and coping strategies.

A 'language of the body': Weightlifting and (reptilian) rhythms of regulation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This audio-visual presentation recontextualizes postmodern ‘punk’ feminist writer Kathy Acker’s essay ‘Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body’ (1993) as a critical experimental work of narrative autoethnography. It will be proposed that... Read More about A 'language of the body': Weightlifting and (reptilian) rhythms of regulation.

The impact of national and international financial crises on mental health and well-being: A systematic review (2023)
Journal Article

Background: Evidence suggests that financial crises and poor mental health are reciprocally related, but no systematic review has been conducted to synthesise the existing literature on the impact of national and international financial crises on pop... Read More about The impact of national and international financial crises on mental health and well-being: A systematic review.

Ontological insecurity of inattentiveness: Conceptualizing how risk management practices impact on patient recovery when admitted to an acute psychiatric hospital (2023)
Journal Article

Risk management which assesses and mitigates risks such as suicide and violence is under scrutiny, particularly within psychiatric inpatient settings. Restrictive practices, which result from risk assessment, such as observations, physical restraint... Read More about Ontological insecurity of inattentiveness: Conceptualizing how risk management practices impact on patient recovery when admitted to an acute psychiatric hospital.

What are the factors of parental incarceration that may increase risk of poor emotional and mental health in children of prisoners? (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: Globally millions of children have a parent who is imprisoned. Research suggests that this has an adverse impact on the child and imprisonment of a parent is considered to be an adverse childhood experience (ACE). Parental incarceration will... Read More about What are the factors of parental incarceration that may increase risk of poor emotional and mental health in children of prisoners?.

Critical perspectives on art on prescription (2023)
Journal Article

The positive outcomes of engaging in the arts are increasingly reported in the research literature, supporting the use of the arts to enhance individual and community health and wellbeing. However, little attention is given to the less positive aspec... Read More about Critical perspectives on art on prescription.

Arts on referral at Fresh Arts: A mixed-methods report on the efficacy of arts on prescription in a hospital setting for people experiencing chronic health conditions (2023)
Report

This report describes the evaluation methods and outcomes of four arts on referral programmes delivered through Fresh Arts on Referral at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. Arts on referral, where people are referred to art workshops, led by a skilled arts... Read More about Arts on referral at Fresh Arts: A mixed-methods report on the efficacy of arts on prescription in a hospital setting for people experiencing chronic health conditions.

Art on referral: Remote delivery in primary and secondary care during the coronavirus pandemic (2022)
Report

Between July 2020 and February 2021 Fresh Arts at Southmead Hospital and CreativeShift delivered remote arts on referral programmes to over 100 participants during the coronavirus pandemic. A referral pathway was developed with cultural organisations... Read More about Art on referral: Remote delivery in primary and secondary care during the coronavirus pandemic.

A manifesto for 2.8 million minds (2022)
Report

A young people’s project commissioned by the Mayor of London

There are currently 2,879,900 children and young people aged 0-25 who live in London.

Between November 2021 and May 2022, over 120 people contributed to A Manifesto for 2.8 Million Mi... Read More about A manifesto for 2.8 million minds.