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SHAPER is a £2.6 million research programme funded by Wellcome that will assess the effectiveness and implementation of 3 arts-in-health interventions. Our primary aim, is to upscale three known effective arts interventions (Melodies for Mums with Postnatal Depression, Dance for Parkinson’s, and Stroke Odysseys) and embed them in a clinical pathway across King's Health Partners (KHP), thereby strengthening the case for NHS Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to recommend and fund such interventions in the long-term. Our secondary aim is to gather further evidence as to how the arts can enhance health and wellbeing in larger cohorts than has hitherto been possible. This multi-layered programme is run out of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's Denmark Hill Campus. It is firmly grounded within King’s Arts Health and Wellbeing strategic framework and has the support of King’s’ well established, university-wide Culture team. SHAPER is led by Prof Carmine M. Pariante (King’s), a clinical academic psychiatrist, and Dr Daisy Fancourt (UCL), an academic epidemiologist, both with expertise in clinical trials and extensive experience of working with artists in public dissemination initiatives, and both leading established research programmes in perinatal mental health (Pariante) and arts and health (Fancourt). It further involves the King’s Centre for Implementation Science, as well as clinicians and researchers across King’s/KHP, and three award-winning arts organisations: Breathe Arts Health Research, the English National Ballet and Rosetta Life.

People

Ioannis Bakolis

Professor of Public Mental Health and Statistics

K Ray Chaudhuri

Professor of Movement Disorders and Neurology

Nikki Crane

Nikki Crane Lead of Creative Health

Paola Dazzan

Professor of Neurobiology of Psychosis, IoPPN Vice Dean (International)

Fleur Derbyshire-Fox

Director of Engagement, English National Ballet

Hannah Dye

Head of Programmes at Breathe Arts Health Research

Projects

English National Ballet 3
Dance for Parkinson's

Dance for Parkinson’s is a 12-week programme designed and delivered by the English National Ballet (ENB). It is inspired by ENB’s repertory and delivered within a professional dance environment with live music for People with Parkinson’s (PwP), their family, friends and carers. The model has been replicated nationally (albeit on a small scale) through five hub partnerships over six years. The programme is structured much in the same way as a ballet class, progressing from a seated/standing warm-up at the barre, and progressing to movement sequences across the space, developing dance material and ending with a group cool down. Previous research has demonstrated that ENB’s Dance for Parkinson’s is of value to participants, particularly emotionally, socially, and artistically. However, the number of randomised clinical trials of dance investigating gains in both motor and non-motor symptoms remains low. To date, no published work has focused on ballet as an intervention for Parkinson’s disease. Equally, there has been no research using wearable sensors for the assessment of motor gains following a dance-based intervention. Our research aims to address this important gap in the evidence base. We plan to conduct a randomised controlled clinical trial investigating the role of ballet dancing as an adjuvant therapy in PD, as assessed by a range of validated clinical outcome measures and objective wearable sensors. Delivery team: Fleur Derbyshire-Fox, Alison Hartley (English National Ballet) Research Team: K.Ray Chaudhuri, Aleksandra (Ola) Podlewska, Katarina Rukavina.

780x440 Breathe Arts Health Research Melodies for Mums Image by Leigha Fearon
Melodies for Mums with Postnatal Depression

Melodies for Mums is a programme based in Lambeth and Southwark providing 10-week singing and music sessions for mothers with postnatal depression (PND) and their babies in community Children’s Centres. It tackles a challenging mental health condition for which there are currently no adequate solutions due to low uptake of medication and therapy in this population. Studies led by Dr Rosie Perkins and Dr Fancourt have demonstrated its effectiveness in reducing symptoms of PND faster than usual care or social groups, and preliminary process evaluations have suggested its suitability. It has also been identified as a strong way of engaging mothers from minority backgrounds who are less likely to seek professional support for their mental health post-birth. The arts component was initially developed by the Royal College of Music and is now delivered by the award-winning arts organisation Breathe Arts Health Research. The programme has reached over 300 mothers to date across Lambeth and Southwark. Through this programme, we will conduct a two-arm randomised controlled trial involving 400 mothers. Participants will be allocated to either the 10-week singing intervention or a wait-list control group on a 2:1 ratio stratified by age of baby and severity of postnatal depression. The wait-list group will be offered the intervention after 12 weeks, so that all participants will eventually receive it. Delivery Team: Hannah Dye, Tim Osborn, Katherine Penney (Breathe Arts Health Research). Research Team: Paola Dazzan, Daisy Fancourt (UCL), Carmine Pariante, Carolina Estevao, Rebecca Bind, Lavinia Rebecchini, Katie Hazelgrove, Kristi Sawyer, Manomani Manoharan (SLaM), Alexandra Burton (UCL).

Stroke Odysseys 1
Stroke Odysseys

Stroke Odysseys is a post stroke performance arts intervention designed and delivered by arts organisation Rosetta Life within two London boroughs. The Stroke Odysseys intervention, initially developed and funded by King’s and Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity, aims to improve recovery, agency and well-being after stroke. The performance arts centre on communication of experiences to an audience through acquired skills in movement, music, song and the spoken word. In the hospital setting, sessions run for 60minutes weekly for groups of 6-8 participants on neuro rehabilitation wards. In the community, there is then a follow-on twelve-week performance intervention where participants devise a dance and music performance work from their own stories. After the performance is completed, participants are invited to a training programme where they learn to act as advocates (“Stroke Ambassadors”) for life after stroke. Stroke Ambassadors then support artists in hospitals, befriend the newly discharged patients and take part in small scale performance tours to hospital wards, care homes and community centres to challenge the perception of disability. The team has undertaken preliminary research demonstrating benefits for perceptions of disability, cognition, mobility, and speech disabilities, but more in-depth research is needed. We will conduct a single-arm study with no control group. The existing pool of stroke ambassadors is 20 people, so this will be increased three-fold for this project to 60 new individuals. Delivery Team: Lucinda Jarrett, Jennie Sweeney (Rosetta Life), Kevin Murphy (Wall2Wall Music). Research Team: Nick Ward (UCL), Fiona Jones (SGUL), Caroline Ellis-Hill (Univ. Bournemouth), Carolina Estevao.

Stroke Odysseys 3
Implementation Science

The research aim of this programme is to explore the clinical, implementation and cost effectiveness of the above mentioned interventions. The specific objectives are to understand the extent to which the interventions are perceived to be acceptable, appropriate and feasible to key stakeholders and to understand the extent to which the interventions are delivered and received as intended. We will utilise a three-pronged Hybrid Type II Effectiveness-Implementation evaluation to be consistently applied across all three interventions with the aim of discovering the 'active ingredient" of each intervention and producing a blue-print for others to follow in other settings. Research Team: Nick Sevdalis, Ioannia Bakolis, Rachel Davis, Tayana Soukup-Ascensao, Andy Healey, Carolina Estevao.

Publications

Podlewska, L. Batzu, J. Staunton, P. Tall, V. Leta, M. Uribe Mz-Recaman, F. Derbyshire-Fox, A. Hartley, T. Soukup, R. Davis, N. Sevdalis, A. Healey, I. Bakolis, C. Pariante, A. Woods, K. Ray Chaudhuri. The PD-Ballet study: a randomised controlled, single-blinded trial of dance therapy for Parkinson’s, baseline characteristics of the study cohort [abstract]. Mov Disord.2023; 38 (suppl 1). https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/the-pd-ballet-study-a-randomised-controlled-single-blinded-trial-of-dance-therapy-for-parkinsons-baseline-characteristics-of-the-study-cohort/. Accessed February 21, 2024.

Podlewska AM, Batzu L, Soukup T, Sevdalis N, Bakolis I, Derbyshire-Fox F, Hartley A, Healey A, Woods A, Crane N, Pariante C, Ray Chaudhuri K. The PD-Ballet study: study protocol for a randomised controlled single-blind hybrid type 2 clinical trial evaluating the effects of ballet dancing on motor and non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease. BMC Complement Med Ther. 2024 Jan 17;24(1):41. doi: 10.1186/s12906-023-04296-y. PMID: 38233784; PMCID: PMC10792796.

Rebecca H. Bind, Kristi Sawyer, Katie Hazelgrove, Lavinia Rebecchini, Celeste Miller, Subeyda Ahmed, Paola Dazzan, Nick Sevdalis, Ioannis Bakolis, Rachel Davis, Maria Baldellou Lopez, Anthony Woods, Nikki Crane, Manonmani Manoharan, Alexandra Burton, Hannah Dye, Tim Osborn, Lorna Greenwood, Rosie Perkins, Daisy Fancourt, Carmine M. Pariante & Carolina Estevao. Feasibility, clinical efficacy, and well-being outcomes of an online singing intervention for postnatal depression in the UK: SHAPER-PNDO, a single-arm clinical trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud 9, 131 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01360-9

Elizabeth Rose Taylor, Carolina Estevao, Lucinda Jarrett, Anthony Woods, Nikki Crane, Daisy Fancourt, Carmine Pariante & Fiona Jones (2023) Experiences of acquired brain injury survivors participating in online and hybrid performance arts programmes: an ethnographic study, Arts & Health, DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2023.2226697

Bind, R.H., Estevao, C., Fancourt, D., Hazelgrove,K., Sawyer, K., Rebecchini, L., Miller, C., Dazzan, P., Sevdalis, N., Woods, A., Crane, N., Manoharan, M., Burton, A., Dye, H., Osborn, T., Greenwood, L., Bakolis, I., Balellou-Lopez, M., Davis, R., Perkins, R.,Pariante, C.M. Online singing interventions for postnatal depression in times of social isolation: a feasibility study protocol for the SHAPER-PNDO single-arm trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud 8, 148 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01112-1

Estevao Carolina, Taylor Elizabeth, Jarrett Lucinda, Fort Joseph, Murphy Kevin, Woods Anthony, Crane Nikki, Fancourt Daisy, Pariante Carmine M., Jones Fiona. A Protocol to Understand the Implementation and Experiences of an Online Community-Based Performance Arts Programme Through and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic, Brain Waves. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences VOLUME=3. (2022).

https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fresc.2022.793901 DOI=10.3389/fresc.2022.793901

Estevao, Carolina; Lopez, Maria; Davis, Rachel; Jarret, Lucinda; Soukup, Tayana; Bakolis, Ioannis; Healey, Andy; Harrington, Jean; Woods, Anthony & Crane, Nikki; Jones, Fiona; Pariante, Carmine; Fancourt, Daisy; Sevdalis, Nick. (2022). Evaluation of a community-based performance arts programme for people who have experienced stroke in the UK: protocol for the SHAPER-Stroke Odysseys study. BMJ Open. 12. e057805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057805

Carolina Estevao, Rebecca Bind, Daisy Fancourt, Kristi Sawyer, Paola Dazzan, Nick Sevdalis, Anthony Woods, Nikki Crane, Lavinia Rebecchini, Katie Hazelgrove, Manonmani Manoharan, Alexandra Burton, Hannah Dye, Tim Osborn, Rachel Davis, Tayana Soukup, Jorge Arias De La Torre, Ioannis Bakolis, Andy Healey, Rosie Perkins, Carmine M. Pariante. The SHAPER-PND trial: clinical effectiveness protocol of a community singing intervention for postnatal depression. BMJ open (Vol.11, issue 11)-http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052133(2021).

Tayana Soukup, Rachel Davis, Maria Baldellou Lopez, Andy Healey, Carolina Estevao, Daisy Fancourt, Paola Dazzan, Carmine Pariante, Hannah Dye, Tim Osborn, Rebecca Bind, Kristi Sawyer, Lavinia Rebecchini, Katie Hazelgrove, Alexandra Burton, Manonmani Manoharan, Rosie Perkins, Aleksandra Podlewska, Ray Chaudhuri, Fleur Derbyshire-Fox, Alison Hartley, Anthony Woods, Nikki Crane, Ioannis Bakolis, Nick Sevdalis. Study protocol: Randomised controlled hybrid type 2 trial evaluating the scale-up of two arts interventions for Postnatal depression and Parkinson’s disease. BMJ open -2021-055691 (2022). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055691

Estevao, C., Fancourt, D., Dazzan, P., Chaudhuri, K., Sevdalis, N., Woods, A., Crane, N., Bind,R., Sawyer, K., Rebecchini, L., Hazelgrove, K., Manoharan, M., Burton, A., Dye, H., Osborn, T., Jarrett, L., Ward, N., Jones, F., Podlewska, A., Premoli, I., Derbyshire-Fox, F., Hartley, A., Soukup, T., Davis, R., Bakolis, I., Healey, A., Pariante, C. (2021). Scaling-up Health-Arts Programmes: The largest study in the world bringing arts-based mental health interventions into a national health serviceBJPsych Bulletin, 45(1), 32-39. doi:10.1192/bjb.2020.122

WHO Panorama people - Interview with Dr Tony Woods- Public Health Panorama - Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2020.

Brain Odysseys Handbook - Lucinda Jarrett - Stroke Odysseys Recovering Hope shares the findings from a decade of working with stroke communities and offers a model of how to set up similar programmes in other localities.

Blogs

Carmine Pariante. Let’s kick off the world’s largest study into arts and health! Inspire the Mind. https://bit.ly/3pkg7Mb

Rebecca Bind. Can maternal depression before birth influence the mother-infant relationship? Inspire the Mind. https://bit.ly/3ps4FOq

Maria Antonietta Nettis. Inspiring Women: Baroness Deborah Bull and how the arts can support science. https://bit.ly/3jgpp8g

Activities

Image: Stroke Odysseys, ©Pari Naderi
Events and activities

From feeling to knowing – putting imagination and lived experience at the heart of understanding illness. Seminar 3 December 2020, 14:00 to 16:00

News

Arts must form an integral part of modern health and social care, report shows

The landmark Creative Health Review report was launched at Science Gallery London at King’s

APPG Creative Health Web Resize

'It's about hope' Symposium advocates for lived-experience ambassadors in Creative Health

The symposium advocated for the powerful role of lived experience ambassadors in the health and social care system

Let Silence Speak Web 1

Young people, mental health and wellbeing: Exploring creative approaches and collaborations

The event that took place on 22 February 2022 kick-starts at King's a new programme in the area of young people, mental health and wellbeing

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Events

17May

Let Silence Speak

A half day event exploring how we can mobilise the patient creative voice as an asset for healthcare.

Please note: this event has passed.

Outputs

 I LOOK FOR THE THINK - An online opera imagining life after stroke during lockdown. A 12 minute online opera from Rosetta Life Stroke Ambassadors and Garsington Opera Adult Community Chorus. Composer Orlando Gough. Libretto by Lucinda Jarrett and Chris Rawlence, from the words and experiences of the Stroke Community, who also perform. 

 Forget-me-Nots: The latest film from Rosetta Life, made online with an incredible group of people living with the effects of brain injury. Personal reflections & original songs, scenes exploring memory. 

Dance for Parkinson's: Patterns of Perception with Central Saint Martins -English National Ballet -Film Footage courtesy of Central Saint Martins, from the Patterns of Perception project in collaboration with University College London and Ruairiadh O'Connell.  

Dance for Parkinson's: Senseless Kindness - English National Ballet. English National Ballet's regular Dance for Parkinson's classes have taken place via Zoom throughout the pandemic. This class was inspired by the new work Senseless Kindness, one of five original dance films created for ENB's Digital Season in 2020. Senseless Kindness was choreographed by Yuri Possokhov and directed by Thomas James. 

People

Ioannis Bakolis

Professor of Public Mental Health and Statistics

K Ray Chaudhuri

Professor of Movement Disorders and Neurology

Nikki Crane

Nikki Crane Lead of Creative Health

Paola Dazzan

Professor of Neurobiology of Psychosis, IoPPN Vice Dean (International)

Fleur Derbyshire-Fox

Director of Engagement, English National Ballet

Hannah Dye

Head of Programmes at Breathe Arts Health Research

Projects

English National Ballet 3
Dance for Parkinson's

Dance for Parkinson’s is a 12-week programme designed and delivered by the English National Ballet (ENB). It is inspired by ENB’s repertory and delivered within a professional dance environment with live music for People with Parkinson’s (PwP), their family, friends and carers. The model has been replicated nationally (albeit on a small scale) through five hub partnerships over six years. The programme is structured much in the same way as a ballet class, progressing from a seated/standing warm-up at the barre, and progressing to movement sequences across the space, developing dance material and ending with a group cool down. Previous research has demonstrated that ENB’s Dance for Parkinson’s is of value to participants, particularly emotionally, socially, and artistically. However, the number of randomised clinical trials of dance investigating gains in both motor and non-motor symptoms remains low. To date, no published work has focused on ballet as an intervention for Parkinson’s disease. Equally, there has been no research using wearable sensors for the assessment of motor gains following a dance-based intervention. Our research aims to address this important gap in the evidence base. We plan to conduct a randomised controlled clinical trial investigating the role of ballet dancing as an adjuvant therapy in PD, as assessed by a range of validated clinical outcome measures and objective wearable sensors. Delivery team: Fleur Derbyshire-Fox, Alison Hartley (English National Ballet) Research Team: K.Ray Chaudhuri, Aleksandra (Ola) Podlewska, Katarina Rukavina.

780x440 Breathe Arts Health Research Melodies for Mums Image by Leigha Fearon
Melodies for Mums with Postnatal Depression

Melodies for Mums is a programme based in Lambeth and Southwark providing 10-week singing and music sessions for mothers with postnatal depression (PND) and their babies in community Children’s Centres. It tackles a challenging mental health condition for which there are currently no adequate solutions due to low uptake of medication and therapy in this population. Studies led by Dr Rosie Perkins and Dr Fancourt have demonstrated its effectiveness in reducing symptoms of PND faster than usual care or social groups, and preliminary process evaluations have suggested its suitability. It has also been identified as a strong way of engaging mothers from minority backgrounds who are less likely to seek professional support for their mental health post-birth. The arts component was initially developed by the Royal College of Music and is now delivered by the award-winning arts organisation Breathe Arts Health Research. The programme has reached over 300 mothers to date across Lambeth and Southwark. Through this programme, we will conduct a two-arm randomised controlled trial involving 400 mothers. Participants will be allocated to either the 10-week singing intervention or a wait-list control group on a 2:1 ratio stratified by age of baby and severity of postnatal depression. The wait-list group will be offered the intervention after 12 weeks, so that all participants will eventually receive it. Delivery Team: Hannah Dye, Tim Osborn, Katherine Penney (Breathe Arts Health Research). Research Team: Paola Dazzan, Daisy Fancourt (UCL), Carmine Pariante, Carolina Estevao, Rebecca Bind, Lavinia Rebecchini, Katie Hazelgrove, Kristi Sawyer, Manomani Manoharan (SLaM), Alexandra Burton (UCL).

Stroke Odysseys 1
Stroke Odysseys

Stroke Odysseys is a post stroke performance arts intervention designed and delivered by arts organisation Rosetta Life within two London boroughs. The Stroke Odysseys intervention, initially developed and funded by King’s and Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity, aims to improve recovery, agency and well-being after stroke. The performance arts centre on communication of experiences to an audience through acquired skills in movement, music, song and the spoken word. In the hospital setting, sessions run for 60minutes weekly for groups of 6-8 participants on neuro rehabilitation wards. In the community, there is then a follow-on twelve-week performance intervention where participants devise a dance and music performance work from their own stories. After the performance is completed, participants are invited to a training programme where they learn to act as advocates (“Stroke Ambassadors”) for life after stroke. Stroke Ambassadors then support artists in hospitals, befriend the newly discharged patients and take part in small scale performance tours to hospital wards, care homes and community centres to challenge the perception of disability. The team has undertaken preliminary research demonstrating benefits for perceptions of disability, cognition, mobility, and speech disabilities, but more in-depth research is needed. We will conduct a single-arm study with no control group. The existing pool of stroke ambassadors is 20 people, so this will be increased three-fold for this project to 60 new individuals. Delivery Team: Lucinda Jarrett, Jennie Sweeney (Rosetta Life), Kevin Murphy (Wall2Wall Music). Research Team: Nick Ward (UCL), Fiona Jones (SGUL), Caroline Ellis-Hill (Univ. Bournemouth), Carolina Estevao.

Stroke Odysseys 3
Implementation Science

The research aim of this programme is to explore the clinical, implementation and cost effectiveness of the above mentioned interventions. The specific objectives are to understand the extent to which the interventions are perceived to be acceptable, appropriate and feasible to key stakeholders and to understand the extent to which the interventions are delivered and received as intended. We will utilise a three-pronged Hybrid Type II Effectiveness-Implementation evaluation to be consistently applied across all three interventions with the aim of discovering the 'active ingredient" of each intervention and producing a blue-print for others to follow in other settings. Research Team: Nick Sevdalis, Ioannia Bakolis, Rachel Davis, Tayana Soukup-Ascensao, Andy Healey, Carolina Estevao.

Publications

Podlewska, L. Batzu, J. Staunton, P. Tall, V. Leta, M. Uribe Mz-Recaman, F. Derbyshire-Fox, A. Hartley, T. Soukup, R. Davis, N. Sevdalis, A. Healey, I. Bakolis, C. Pariante, A. Woods, K. Ray Chaudhuri. The PD-Ballet study: a randomised controlled, single-blinded trial of dance therapy for Parkinson’s, baseline characteristics of the study cohort [abstract]. Mov Disord.2023; 38 (suppl 1). https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/the-pd-ballet-study-a-randomised-controlled-single-blinded-trial-of-dance-therapy-for-parkinsons-baseline-characteristics-of-the-study-cohort/. Accessed February 21, 2024.

Podlewska AM, Batzu L, Soukup T, Sevdalis N, Bakolis I, Derbyshire-Fox F, Hartley A, Healey A, Woods A, Crane N, Pariante C, Ray Chaudhuri K. The PD-Ballet study: study protocol for a randomised controlled single-blind hybrid type 2 clinical trial evaluating the effects of ballet dancing on motor and non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease. BMC Complement Med Ther. 2024 Jan 17;24(1):41. doi: 10.1186/s12906-023-04296-y. PMID: 38233784; PMCID: PMC10792796.

Rebecca H. Bind, Kristi Sawyer, Katie Hazelgrove, Lavinia Rebecchini, Celeste Miller, Subeyda Ahmed, Paola Dazzan, Nick Sevdalis, Ioannis Bakolis, Rachel Davis, Maria Baldellou Lopez, Anthony Woods, Nikki Crane, Manonmani Manoharan, Alexandra Burton, Hannah Dye, Tim Osborn, Lorna Greenwood, Rosie Perkins, Daisy Fancourt, Carmine M. Pariante & Carolina Estevao. Feasibility, clinical efficacy, and well-being outcomes of an online singing intervention for postnatal depression in the UK: SHAPER-PNDO, a single-arm clinical trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud 9, 131 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01360-9

Elizabeth Rose Taylor, Carolina Estevao, Lucinda Jarrett, Anthony Woods, Nikki Crane, Daisy Fancourt, Carmine Pariante & Fiona Jones (2023) Experiences of acquired brain injury survivors participating in online and hybrid performance arts programmes: an ethnographic study, Arts & Health, DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2023.2226697

Bind, R.H., Estevao, C., Fancourt, D., Hazelgrove,K., Sawyer, K., Rebecchini, L., Miller, C., Dazzan, P., Sevdalis, N., Woods, A., Crane, N., Manoharan, M., Burton, A., Dye, H., Osborn, T., Greenwood, L., Bakolis, I., Balellou-Lopez, M., Davis, R., Perkins, R.,Pariante, C.M. Online singing interventions for postnatal depression in times of social isolation: a feasibility study protocol for the SHAPER-PNDO single-arm trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud 8, 148 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01112-1

Estevao Carolina, Taylor Elizabeth, Jarrett Lucinda, Fort Joseph, Murphy Kevin, Woods Anthony, Crane Nikki, Fancourt Daisy, Pariante Carmine M., Jones Fiona. A Protocol to Understand the Implementation and Experiences of an Online Community-Based Performance Arts Programme Through and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic, Brain Waves. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences VOLUME=3. (2022).

https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fresc.2022.793901 DOI=10.3389/fresc.2022.793901

Estevao, Carolina; Lopez, Maria; Davis, Rachel; Jarret, Lucinda; Soukup, Tayana; Bakolis, Ioannis; Healey, Andy; Harrington, Jean; Woods, Anthony & Crane, Nikki; Jones, Fiona; Pariante, Carmine; Fancourt, Daisy; Sevdalis, Nick. (2022). Evaluation of a community-based performance arts programme for people who have experienced stroke in the UK: protocol for the SHAPER-Stroke Odysseys study. BMJ Open. 12. e057805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057805

Carolina Estevao, Rebecca Bind, Daisy Fancourt, Kristi Sawyer, Paola Dazzan, Nick Sevdalis, Anthony Woods, Nikki Crane, Lavinia Rebecchini, Katie Hazelgrove, Manonmani Manoharan, Alexandra Burton, Hannah Dye, Tim Osborn, Rachel Davis, Tayana Soukup, Jorge Arias De La Torre, Ioannis Bakolis, Andy Healey, Rosie Perkins, Carmine M. Pariante. The SHAPER-PND trial: clinical effectiveness protocol of a community singing intervention for postnatal depression. BMJ open (Vol.11, issue 11)-http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052133(2021).

Tayana Soukup, Rachel Davis, Maria Baldellou Lopez, Andy Healey, Carolina Estevao, Daisy Fancourt, Paola Dazzan, Carmine Pariante, Hannah Dye, Tim Osborn, Rebecca Bind, Kristi Sawyer, Lavinia Rebecchini, Katie Hazelgrove, Alexandra Burton, Manonmani Manoharan, Rosie Perkins, Aleksandra Podlewska, Ray Chaudhuri, Fleur Derbyshire-Fox, Alison Hartley, Anthony Woods, Nikki Crane, Ioannis Bakolis, Nick Sevdalis. Study protocol: Randomised controlled hybrid type 2 trial evaluating the scale-up of two arts interventions for Postnatal depression and Parkinson’s disease. BMJ open -2021-055691 (2022). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055691

Estevao, C., Fancourt, D., Dazzan, P., Chaudhuri, K., Sevdalis, N., Woods, A., Crane, N., Bind,R., Sawyer, K., Rebecchini, L., Hazelgrove, K., Manoharan, M., Burton, A., Dye, H., Osborn, T., Jarrett, L., Ward, N., Jones, F., Podlewska, A., Premoli, I., Derbyshire-Fox, F., Hartley, A., Soukup, T., Davis, R., Bakolis, I., Healey, A., Pariante, C. (2021). Scaling-up Health-Arts Programmes: The largest study in the world bringing arts-based mental health interventions into a national health serviceBJPsych Bulletin, 45(1), 32-39. doi:10.1192/bjb.2020.122

WHO Panorama people - Interview with Dr Tony Woods- Public Health Panorama - Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2020.

Brain Odysseys Handbook - Lucinda Jarrett - Stroke Odysseys Recovering Hope shares the findings from a decade of working with stroke communities and offers a model of how to set up similar programmes in other localities.

Blogs

Carmine Pariante. Let’s kick off the world’s largest study into arts and health! Inspire the Mind. https://bit.ly/3pkg7Mb

Rebecca Bind. Can maternal depression before birth influence the mother-infant relationship? Inspire the Mind. https://bit.ly/3ps4FOq

Maria Antonietta Nettis. Inspiring Women: Baroness Deborah Bull and how the arts can support science. https://bit.ly/3jgpp8g

Awards

Activities

Image: Stroke Odysseys, ©Pari Naderi
Events and activities

From feeling to knowing – putting imagination and lived experience at the heart of understanding illness. Seminar 3 December 2020, 14:00 to 16:00

News

Arts must form an integral part of modern health and social care, report shows

The landmark Creative Health Review report was launched at Science Gallery London at King’s

APPG Creative Health Web Resize

'It's about hope' Symposium advocates for lived-experience ambassadors in Creative Health

The symposium advocated for the powerful role of lived experience ambassadors in the health and social care system

Let Silence Speak Web 1

Young people, mental health and wellbeing: Exploring creative approaches and collaborations

The event that took place on 22 February 2022 kick-starts at King's a new programme in the area of young people, mental health and wellbeing

decorative

Events

17May

Let Silence Speak

A half day event exploring how we can mobilise the patient creative voice as an asset for healthcare.

Please note: this event has passed.

Outputs

 I LOOK FOR THE THINK - An online opera imagining life after stroke during lockdown. A 12 minute online opera from Rosetta Life Stroke Ambassadors and Garsington Opera Adult Community Chorus. Composer Orlando Gough. Libretto by Lucinda Jarrett and Chris Rawlence, from the words and experiences of the Stroke Community, who also perform. 

 Forget-me-Nots: The latest film from Rosetta Life, made online with an incredible group of people living with the effects of brain injury. Personal reflections & original songs, scenes exploring memory. 

Dance for Parkinson's: Patterns of Perception with Central Saint Martins -English National Ballet -Film Footage courtesy of Central Saint Martins, from the Patterns of Perception project in collaboration with University College London and Ruairiadh O'Connell.  

Dance for Parkinson's: Senseless Kindness - English National Ballet. English National Ballet's regular Dance for Parkinson's classes have taken place via Zoom throughout the pandemic. This class was inspired by the new work Senseless Kindness, one of five original dance films created for ENB's Digital Season in 2020. Senseless Kindness was choreographed by Yuri Possokhov and directed by Thomas James. 

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For further information about the SHAPER programme please contact Dr. Tony Woods via email.

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