My Fellowship focused on arts and health practice, building on my existing research links in Finland and the USA.

I have continued practising as clinical psychologist in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and added, as a result of my Fellowship, a new role managing the GM i-THRIVE Arts, Culture and Mental Health programme across the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. This programme is the only one of its kind in the national THRIVE service transformation. My Fellowship and Report enabled its development. Since my Fellowship I have provided evidence at a House of Lords roundtable, presented in Brussels to an EU special interest group and delivered international keynotes.

Following clinical training, I became interested in improving understanding of the myriad roles that culture and the arts play in health and wellbeing. This was due to personal experiences and witnessing the benefits of the arts on people I have worked with professionally. I have researched arts, health and wellbeing in mental health, dementia and children's services, as well as the potential of culture and the arts in public health, for example through education and public engagement.