Arts Derbyshire

01.05.2024

Arts, Culture and Heritage: Understanding their complex effects on our health. A free self-directed online course.

Arts, Culture and Heritage: Understanding their complex effects on our health. A free self-directed online course.

This course from the Social Biobehavioural Research Group introduces the knowledge base of how community resources, including arts, culture and heritage activities can improve our physical and mental health and wellbeing.

In the last decade, researchers have increasingly focused on how community resources, or ‘assets,’ can protect and enhance health and wellbeing. These assets can be mobilised to improve individuals’ health, known as an asset-based approach to health.

Assets are wide-ranging. They are the resources, skills and knowledge of individuals, community and voluntary associations, public and private organisations, and physical environments. They include libraries, writing groups, archives, gardens, exercise classes, sporting events, volunteering and charitable groups, and community organisations such as youth services, trade unions, and religious groups.

Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and Social Biobehavioural Research Group at University College London (UCL), supported by the MARCH Network, developed this course to increase knowledge and understanding of how community resources, including arts, culture and heritage activities can improve our physical and mental health and wellbeing. The course is open to all, but is aimed at early careers researchers and community organisations with an interest in understanding how community resources, including arts, culture and heritage activities can improve our physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Find out more and sign up for free here.

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