This review explores the relationship between engagement with the creative arts and health
outcomes, specifically the health effects of music engagement, visual arts therapy …

The use of arts-based research is shifting our understanding of what counts as evidence and
highlights the complexity and multidimensionality involved in creating new knowledge. A …

This book was written partly for my own sake. I was born into a very poor family in Southern
Thailand. Mum and Dad were the products of marginalised migrant populations in Thailand …

There is an increasing literature on visual methodologies in which images are generated by
participants as part of the research, as distinct from the analysis of existing images or images …

Visual methods are gaining traction in qualitative research to support data generation, data
analysis, and research dissemination. In this article, I propose a preliminary typology that …

The arts are valued by most societies for a variety of reasons. From a health perspective they
have been valued primarily for therapeutic purposes. Subsequently, the benefit of the arts in …

Recent research has examined patients' drawings of their illness as a means to identify
patients' illness representations. The aim of this systematic review was to examine which …

The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing,
activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being …

Within the social sciences there has been an increased interest in the senses. Much of this
work has focused on ethnographic methods and has concentrated on research about the …

Drawings are employed by qualitative researchers in many creative ways, and in many
different contexts, and a variety of different terms are used to describe similar techniques. I …