TY - JOUR
T1 - A myth-busting mental health tour of the National Gallery in London
T2 - Facilitators and challenges to its development and evaluation
AU - Riches, Simon
AU - Vasile, Ruxandra
AU - Steer, Natalie
AU - Murray, Anna
AU - Goneni, Amber
AU - Orehova, Aleksandra
AU - Temple, Rachel
AU - Thompson, Rose
AU - Houston, Fiona
AU - Fisher, Helen
N1 - Funding Information:
The mental health awareness audio tour was a collaboration between King’s College London, The National Gallery, The McPin Foundation, The McPin Young People’s Network, and Antenna International. We would like to thank the members of the McPin Young People’s Network for their invaluable involvement in this project. Ethical approval was not obtained because this project was an evaluation of a public engagement activity, not a research project. Nonetheless, the authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008, including obtaining informed consent prior to data collection. This work was supported by the UKRI Medical Research Council under the Engagement in Science Activities Seed Fund; and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to HLF [MD\170005]. HLF was also supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London [ES/S012567/1]. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the ESRC or King’s College London.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022/4/12
Y1 - 2022/4/12
N2 - This paper describes a mental health-awareness audio tour of the National Gallery, London, and evaluates the development and implementation of the tour. This smartphone-based audio tour was co-produced by Gallery staff, young people with lived experience of mental health issues, academics, and technologists. Interviews (N=22) were conducted with developers and data-collectors (who had gathered feedback from Gallery visitors who undertook the tour) with responses analysed thematically. Participants highlighted the value of the arts to raise awareness about mental health, and the importance of teamwork, lived experience, and co-production, but also raised the challenges of integrating low-budget projects into large-scale venues.
AB - This paper describes a mental health-awareness audio tour of the National Gallery, London, and evaluates the development and implementation of the tour. This smartphone-based audio tour was co-produced by Gallery staff, young people with lived experience of mental health issues, academics, and technologists. Interviews (N=22) were conducted with developers and data-collectors (who had gathered feedback from Gallery visitors who undertook the tour) with responses analysed thematically. Participants highlighted the value of the arts to raise awareness about mental health, and the importance of teamwork, lived experience, and co-production, but also raised the challenges of integrating low-budget projects into large-scale venues.
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U2 - 10.1080/17533015.2022.2056212
DO - 10.1080/17533015.2022.2056212
M3 - Article
SN - 1753-3023
JO - Arts & health
JF - Arts & health
ER -