Arts and Health Evaluation Toolkit (AHET) Sharing Session

Arts and Health Evaluation Toolkit (AHET) Sharing Session

Are you an arts practitioner, researcher, or part of an arts/cultural organisation? Do you find it challenging to evaluate your work, especially when it’s needed for grants and funding? Join us at the Centre for Music and Health for the launch of our Arts and Health Evaluation Toolkit (AHET) — a new resource designed to support more rigorous evaluation of arts programmes that aim to improve health.

In this sharing session, we will discuss evaluation methods, best practices, and recommended tools for evaluating the impact of your arts activities/programmes on health, wellbeing, and social connection.

This is an in-person event and light refreshments will be served. Please note, registration is free but tickets are available on a first come, first served basis.

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The field of arts and health is rapidly evolving, with a growing emphasis on bringing arts and cultural activities to communities and clinical populations to improve various aspects of health and well-being. Music has shown promise in enhancing memory for dementia patients, visual arts have helped individuals cope with trauma, and dance can be beneficial for physical rehabilitation (Fancourt & Finn, 2019), to name a few of the many health benefits identified. Despite the increasing popularity of Arts and Health interventions, many artists and arts organizations are not aware of the existing tools available to measure the impact of arts on health and wellness. While they often complete program evaluation, they may be unsure how to conduct outcome evaluation, which is increasingly requested by funders and donors. Further, there are currently few randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the gold standard for evaluating interventions in medicine. In other words, there is a swiftly growing need to conduct formal research and evaluation in the field of Arts and Health.

To address this gap, Centre for Music and Health has developed an Arts and Health Evaluation Toolkit (AHET), which provides a set of tools for outcome and impact evaluation of arts activities that aim to improve health, well-being, and social connection. The toolkit includes descriptions of qualitative and quantitative measures for arts-for-health researchers, along with practical guidance, use cases, and an assessment of their advantages and disadvantages. Our goal is to promote consistent and effective evaluation practices, and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists or clinicians. Visit centreformusicandhealth.sg to learn more about us.

Supported by the National Arts Council and Tote Board.