Our website is currently under maintenance. Our new research area will be available soon.

Social prescribing

The Social Prescribing sub-theme explores the delivery and impact of social prescribing on the quality of life of people experiencing mental health difficulties.

Our researchers use creative and inclusive methods and work closely with members of our Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP). We have been working in partnership with Creative Minds, a charity hosted by the South West Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust, to understand the programme theory behind their model, focusing on the resources and people required, the specific activities conducted, and the overall impact on both individuals and the broader community.

Social prescribing Projects

Exploring how arts-based social prescribing activities influence the identity change process in recovery from serious mental illness: A realist review and evaluation

Recovery from mental illness is a very individual experience, with hundreds of outcomes and mechanisms of change activated within non-clinical interventions. Recovery is a nonlinear process that can include challenges,...

Meet the Social prescribing Team

Our latest Social prescribing publications

Creative social prescribing groups during lockdown: a photo-elicitation evaluation of group users’ experiences

Working with a youth mental health apprenticeship scheme to coproduce evidence synthesis: The youth mental health evidence synthesis hub

Loneliness, social isolation, and effects on cognitive decline in patients with dementia: A retrospective cohort study using natural language processing