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Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters
A broad range of work including systematic reviews and primary research, exploring the use of visual arts, music, creative writing for wellbeing from diverse disciplinary and methodological perspectives
Cover Image | Title | Author Names | Publication Date | Publication Type | DOI URL |
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Exploring social perceptions of queer and trans music therapists and clients: A qualitative story completion study | Bethany Mulley; Victoria Clarke; Luke Annesley | 02/03/2026 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/15163236/exploring-social-perceptions-of-queer-and-trans-music-therapists-and-clients-a-qualitative-story-completion-study | |
What do we mean by ‘creative health’? The benefits of defining ‘creativity’ in the arts and health field | Nicola Holt | 01/01/2026 | Article | https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2025.2597260 | |
Introduction: Charting areas of the arts and health | Nicola Holt; Sofia Vougioukalou; Victoria Tischler; Elisabetta Corvo | 30/11/2025 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/15787648 | |
Conclusion: Reflections on the arts and health as a field | Nicola Holt; Sofia Vougioukalou; Victoria Tischler; Elisabetta Corvo | 26/11/2025 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/15787671 | |
Arts in social prescribing | Nicola Holt; Sofia Vougioukalou; Helen Chatterjee | 26/11/2025 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13929343 | |
Unpacking the creativity advantage: Lessons from psychology on the benefits of the arts | Molly Holinger; Nicola Holt; James Kaufman, | 26/11/2025 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13929370 | |
Using the visual arts and crafts for health and wellbeing: The EPICS framework | Nicola Holt; Alison Rouse; Sophie Olson | 16/11/2025 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13929326 | |
Words as therapy | Christine Ramsey-Wade; Claire Williamson; Jose Billington; Carol Ireland | 15/11/2025 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/15253706 | |
Apples and oranges? The importance of recognising heterogeneity in Arts and Health research publications | Anita Jensen; Nicola Holt; Hilary Bungay | 21/09/2025 | Article | https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1670166/full | |
Arts-based interventions: Why it’s complex, and why that matters: Comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique” by Skov and Nadal | Nicola Holt | 25/08/2025 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/14592543/arts-based-interventions-why-its-complex-and-why-that-matters-comment-on-can-arts-based-interventions-improve-health-a-conceptual-and-methodological-critique-by-skov-and-nadal | |
Understanding the silences, not just the music: An exploration into Music Therapists’ meaning making of silence in improvisational music therapy | Garrick Wareham; Luke Annesley | 01/08/2025 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/15168587/understanding-the-silences-not-just-the-music-an-exploration-into-music-therapists-meaning-making-of-silence-in-improvisational-music-therapy | |
Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study | Nicola Holt et al. | 18/07/2025 | Article | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/17280583.2024.2385308 | |
‘The First Cut is the Deepest’: A conversation between a music therapist and their first training supervisor, 15 years on | Luke Annesley; Andy Lale | 01/07/2025 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/15168626/the-first-cut-is-the-deepest-a-conversation-between-a-music-therapist-and-their-first-training-supervisor-15-years-on | |
Student-generated metaphor in research supervision: An arts-based method | Christine Ramsey-Wade; Matthew Cott | 18/03/2025 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/12098054 | |
‘Go with the "wave of music" to dive deep’: Exploring perceptions of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the role of music within this practice | Ann MacLeod; Victoria Clarke; Catherine Warner | 01/03/2025 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13936025 | |
Critical perspectives on art on prescription | Hilary Bungay; Nicola Holt; Anita Jensen | 28/11/2024 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10587089/critical-perspectives-on-art-on-prescription | |
‘I’m coming out’: The role of music in LGBTQ+ identities | Karen Jones; Victoria Clarke; Luke Annesley | 01/10/2024 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/13303912/im-coming-out-the-role-of-music-in-lgbtq-identities | |
Developing an evaluation strategy in Kashmir: Assessing the impact of an arts intervention with school children in an area of conflict | Nicola Holt; Michael Buser; Emma Brännlund; Julie Mytton; Lorraine Leeson; Vikramjeet Sinha; Anarupa Roy | 18/09/2024 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/12881056/developing-an-evaluation-strategy-in-kashmir-assessing-the-impact-of-an-arts-intervention-with-school-children-in-an-area-of-conflict | |
The impact of Arts on Prescription on individual health and wellbeing: A systematic review with meta-analysis | Anita Jensen; Nicola Holt; Sayaka Honda; Hilary Bungay | 24/07/2024 | Article | https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1412306/full | |
‘Where do you feel it most?’ Using body mapping to explore the lived experiences of racism with 10- and 11-year-olds | Luci Gorell Barnes et al. | 01/06/2024 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11615459 | |
In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir | Emma Brännlund; Michael Buser; Nicola Holt; Julie Mytton; Afeefa Fazli, Loraine Leeson; Vikramjeet Sinha; Anarupa Roy | 10/01/2024 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11604840/insecure-childhoods-children-and-conflict-in-kashmir | |
"Music therapy is the very definition of white privilege": Music therapists' perspectives on race and class in UK music therapy | Tamsin Mains; Victoria Clarke; Luke Annesley | 01/01/2024 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11642884/music-therapy-is-the-very-definition-of-white-privilege-music-therapists-perspectives-on-race-and-class-in-uk-music-therapy | |
"Surprisingly helpful": An exploration of trainee and registered music therapists' perspectives on the current role of personal therapy in music therapy training in the United Kingdom | Megan Brand; Victoria Clarke; Catherine Warner | 01/12/2023 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10370776 | |
Colouring for wellbeing: Evidence and applications | Nicola Holt | 22/11/2023 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9294485/colouring-for-wellbeing-evidence-and-applications | |
Art and the schizophrenic spectrum | Nicola Holt | 21/11/2023 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9269765/art-and-the-schizophrenic-spectrum | |
The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19 | Luci Gorell Barnes et al. | 01/09/2023 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10900949 | |
The impact of remote arts on prescription: Changes in mood, attention and loneliness during art workshops as mechanisms for wellbeing change | Nicola Holt | 20/04/2023 | Article | https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/njach.5.1.1 | |
Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas | Michael Buser; Emma Brännlund; Nicola Holt; Loraine Leeson; Julie Mytton | 30/03/2023 | Article | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17533015.2023.2168710 | |
Experiences of music therapists sharing improvisation remotely during lockdown | Luke Annesley; Nicky Haire | 01/01/2023 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6703765/experiences-of-music-therapists-sharing-improvisation-remotely-during-lockdown | |
Searching for Lauren Berlant: Reflections on writing, temporality and loss | Clare Johnson | 01/09/2022 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9987541 | |
The use of “art” as a resource in recovery from the impact of sexual abuse in childhood: A qualitative systematic review | Alison Rouse; Elizabeth Jenkinson; Catherine Warner | 01/03/2022 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9081685/the-use-of-art-as-a-resource-in-recovery-from-the-impact-of-sexual-abuse-in-childhood-a-qualitative-systematic-review | |
Let the atrocious images haunt us: Encounters with conflict and connection in visual art making | Alison Rouse | 01/11/2021 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8045929/let-the-atrocious-images-haunt-us-encounters-with-conflict-and-connection-in-visual-art-making | |
‘You don't take things too seriously or un-seriously’: Beyond recovery to liminal and liminoid possibility in a community arts and mental health project | Mike Chase et al. | 01/10/2021 | Article | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casp.2583 | |
‘Sewing Together’: An idiographic study of a music therapist’s experiences of a group at a special school for children and young people with severe and complex special educational needs | Luke Annesley; Nicolette O'Neill | 01/09/2021 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6732576/sewing-together-an-idiographic-study-of-a-music-therapists-experiences-of-a-group-at-a-special-school-for-children-and-young-people-with-severe-and-complex-special-educational-needs | |
Heritage art with an intent | Nina Sabnani; Michael Buser | 01/03/2021 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6969497 | |
Learning how to learn: The role of music and other expressive arts in responding to Early Leaving from Education and Training (ELET) in the STALWARTS project | Catherine Warner et al. | 01/10/2020 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6056956 | |
'It's just a different dimension': Music therapists' experiences of hearing loss | Sara Cole; Catherine Warner | 30/09/2020 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10370786 | |
Interdisciplinary Research in Rajasthan, India: Exploring the Role of Culture and Art to Support Rural Development and Water Management | Michael Buser | 01/09/2020 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6642206 | |
Therapeutic writing for disordered eating: A systematic review | Christine Ramsey-Wade; Heidi Williamson; Jane Meyrick | 27/05/2020 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5973289/therapeutic-writing-for-disordered-eating-a-systematic-review | |
Parents’ perspectives on their children’s music therapy: A synthesis of qualitative literature | Luke Annesley; Eamon McKeown; Katherine Curtis-Tyler | 12/05/2020 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5986766/parents-perspectives-on-their-childrens-music-therapy-a-synthesis-of-qualitative-literature | |
Tracking momentary experience in the evaluation of arts-on-prescription services: Using mood changes during art workshops to predict global wellbeing change | Nicola Holt | 19/03/2020 | Article | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1757913920913060 | |
Creativity and Schizotypy | Nicola Holt | 19/03/2020 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1493467/schizotypy | |
Reading and writing for well-being: A qualitative exploration of the therapeutic experience of older adult participants in a bibliotherapy and creative writing group | Brianna Malyn; Zoe Thomas; Christine Ramsey-Wade | 19/03/2020 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5295329/reading-and-writing-for-well-being-a-qualitative-exploration-of-the-therapeutic-experience-of-older-adult-participants-in-a-bibliotherapy-and-creative-writing-group | |
Challenges and joys of using the experience sampling method to examine the impact of the arts on wellbeing | Nicola Holt | 19/02/2020 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5018628/challenges-and-joys-of-using-the-experience-sampling-method-to-examine-the-impact-of-the-arts-on-wellbeing | |
Maternal art and post-natal wellbeing: Proximity and separation in Lena Simic’s Contemplation Time (2007-8) and Eti Wade’s Jocasta (2008) | Clare Johnson | 01/11/2019 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1723003/maternal-art-and-post-natal-wellbeing-proximity-and-separation-in-lena-simics-contemplation-time-2007-8-and-eti-wades-jocasta-2008 | |
From nursing Virgins to brelfies: The project of maternal femininity | Clare Johnson; Jenny Rintoul | 30/10/2019 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/848259/from-nursing-virgins-to-brelfies-the-project-of-maternal-femininity | |
Cognitive and affective benefits of coloring: Two randomized controlled crossover studies | Nicola Holt; Leah Furbert; Emily Sweetingham | 23/10/2019 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/848019/cognitive-and-affective-benefits-of-coloring-two-randomized-controlled-crossover-studies | |
Two kinds of music therapy: Exploring ‘genre’ in the context of clinical practice | Luke Annesley | 01/09/2019 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5986726/two-kinds-of-music-therapy-exploring-genre-in-the-context-of-clinical-practice | |
Machinic assemblages of publicness | Michael Buser | 01/09/2018 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/861704/machinic-assemblages-of-publicness | |
Music therapy within an integrated project for families exposed to domestic violence: A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives | Luke Annesley | 01/09/2018 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/857420/music-therapy-within-an-integrated-project-for-families-exposed-to-domestic-violence-a-qualitative-study-of-professionals-perspectives | |
The expression of schizotypy in the daily lives of artists | Nicola Holt | 24/05/2018 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/874478/the-expression-of-schizotypy-in-the-daily-lives-of-artists | |
Is poetry therapy an appropriate intervention for clients recovering from anorexia? A critical review of the literature and client report | Christine Ramsey-Wade; Ellen Devine | 23/05/2018 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/880008/is-poetry-therapy-an-appropriate-intervention-for-clients-recovering-from-anorexia-a-critical-review-of-the-literature-and-client-report | |
Using the experience-sampling method to examine the psychological mechanisms by which participatory art improves wellbeing | Nicola Holt | 17/01/2018 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/865262/using-the-experience-sampling-method-to-examine-the-psychological-mechanisms-by-which-participatory-art-improves-wellbeing | |
Atmospheres of stillness in Bristol’s Bearpit | Michael Buser | 01/01/2017 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/898545/atmospheres-of-stillness-in-bristols-bearpit | |
Becoming ecological citizens: Connecting people through performance art, food matter and practices | Emma Roe; Michael Buser | 01/01/2016 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/907669/becoming-ecological-citizens-connecting-people-through-performance-art-food-matter-and-practices | |
Enabling connections: Counsellor creativity and therapeutic practice | Alison Rouse; Joe Armstrong; John McLeod | 01/09/2015 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/829431/enabling-connections-counsellor-creativity-and-therapeutic-practice | |
Schizotypy: A creative advantage? | Nicola Holt | 18/03/2015 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/832828/schizotypy-a-creative-advantage | |
The Music Therapist in School as Outsider | Luke Annesley | 01/12/2014 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5986773/the-music-therapist-in-school-as-outsider | |
The muse in the machine: Creativity, anomalous experiences and mental health | Nicola Holt | 22/03/2012 | Chapter | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/953513/the-muse-in-the-machine-creativity-anomalous-experiences-and-mental-health | |
Introspective discourse and the poetics of subjective experience | Robin Wooffitt; Nicola Holt | 21/04/2011 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/964233/introspective-discourse-and-the-poetics-of-subjective-experience | |
Emin is screaming: Empathy as affirmative engagement in Tracey Emin's Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children (1998) | Clare Johnson | 01/07/2010 | Article | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/976511/emin-is-screaming-empathy-as-affirmative-engagement-in-tracey-emins-homage-to-edvard-munch-and-all-my-dead-children-1998 |
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