Happy to have sent the Routledge Handbook of Arts & Health to the publisher this morning - I hope that the copyediting stage goes smoothly. Thanks to all of the authors for their work and for helping to create such a comprehensive overview of the field.

Busy writing the Introduction and Contents page for the Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health - it is really coming together - still a lot of organising to do in the final weeks, but I'm very grateful for everyone's contributions and expertise as I begin summarising it all.

Funny that this is my highest scoring article and 11th top scoring in the journal Art Therapy. I think it's because colouring is so accessible and so shared as a stress reduction technique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... routledge.altmetric.com/details/6528...

Enjoying writing a book chapter on the visual arts and crafts for health and wellbeing for the upcoming Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health. I have organised the content into the following areas - and know much more about some of these than others!

Looking forward to read the special issue on Global Creative Health in Perspectives in Public Health and pleased to see our practice report about evaluation for our Kashmir project included artofhealing.org.uk

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Our report on Thriving Communities Bristol piloting arts for health interventions with diverse communities, led by
CreativeShift & Lerato Dunn, funded by
Arts Council & NASP. Insights for practice and lovely qualitative research on impact. uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11603...

Pleased to share a new paper from the healing arts in Kashmir project (artofhealing.org.uk), led by Emma Brannlund, In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir - 2024 (sagepub.com)