Dementia & Imagination: Research Informed Approaches to Visual Arts Interventions
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 214812
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- ISBN
- 9781842201527
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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C - Design
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Parkinson was lead author on this research-informed handbook of arts-based co-design methods, published as part of the £1.2mio AHRC funded Dementia & Imagination project (2014-2016), the then largest UK research project of its kind. The team developed a comprehensive arts-based research intervention protocol, which allowed Parkinson to recruit artists to facilitate, interpret and respond to the process and data, alongside PLWD, contributing and testing research-informed guidance for artists and health workers looking to develop research-informed interventions. The transdisciplinary, multi-site research intervention in care homes, the NHS and community settings generated full data for 125 people living with dementia (PLWD) and 146 carers. The visual art activity led to significantly higher scores for: attention, pleasure, interest and self-esteem, and reductions in sadness/negative mood compared to social activity of a control group. A social return on investment of an input cost of £189,498 to deliver the intervention, created a social value of £980,717 = £5.18 of social value generated for every £1 invested in delivering art activities. Parkinson has utilised this handbook to deliver training nationally and internationally (500+ people) and as keynote speaker at conferences in Australia, Ireland, Lithuania, Japan, USA and UK (1000+ people). The Museum of Modern Art in New York describe this work as: “…a unique and exemplary resource… [which] …should serve as a model for other research.” The utilitarian book is designed to be accessible and jargon-free, offering key research-informed ‘ingredients’ for delivering robust, projects; case studies; guiding principles and key recommendations. The second edition was published in May 2018 following extensive public consultation, as part of AHRC follow-on-funded training and dissemination across the UK and has also been translated into Dutch. It has been downloaded 18,608 times between Feb 2017 and March 2020, with 2000 hard copies distributed.
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- Non-English
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