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Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
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What we do

The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing has a membership of academics, creative practitioners and health practitioners across the University of Brighton. We work with our associate members, as well as local, national and international communities, to improve individual, social and environmental wellbeing.

Our work is focused on meaningful impact through an understanding of the practical wisdom that is accessed through the arts. We work inclusively and collaboratively with health and wellbeing partners, investigating priorities of mutual interest and developing new, interdisciplinary and community-oriented research approaches. Our expert arts practices include drawing, design, creative writing and media; our expert health and wellbeing practices include mental health, psychology, resilience, sustainability and medicine.

Our research and enterprise has attracted international attention for example: inclusive arts practices backed by the Tate Gallery and introduced across South Asia; drawings on environmental degradation prompting government interventions; community writing and film recognised as a means to social expression and integration in challenged communities.

We welcome approaches to work with or join our centre as we plan for a series of exhibitions, outreach programmes and academic/public access events to extend the benefits we have already brought to the communities we have met.

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Drawing machines made with multiple pencils in metal holders on string. Designed for Make Your Mark project

Our research and enterprise projects

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Our research and enterprise impact

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