Blog post #22 Thinking creatively about health research

• In this post we talk about a recent success in our project.
• We discuss, and share the, National Centre for Creative Health's Research Round-up Report for 2025.

The Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025 is a report produced by the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) in partnership with the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH). It brings together a diverse body of research, evaluation and strategic documentation to make creative health evidence more visible and accessible to practitioners, commissioners, policymakers, researchers and community organisations alike.

Thanks to one of our Community Researchers, Amanda Jones, in late 2025 we submitted our project Cripping Breath for inclusion in the report. Soon after, we were accepted! The report offers a unique round up of short summaries of exciting research projects and other interventions that connect creativity and health. 

Cripping Breath was recognised in the Creative Methodology section. This section, 'highlights research where creative practice is not simply a delivery tool, but a core method for generating knowledge. Its value lies in showing how creative methods can surface experiences, relationships and forms of understanding that are often inaccessible through conventional research alone' (NCCH 2026).

We are very proud to have been able to showcase our project in the report - to download the report please click here (see pg. 12 for Cripping Breath's entry).