Mary Robson's Outputs (3)

Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement (2020)
Journal Article
Yoeli, H., Robson, M., McLusky, S., & Macnaughton, J. (2020). Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement. Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, 2(02), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2535-7913-2020-02-02

Purpose: For years, the Arts and Health (AaH) movement has been guided by values of art for art’s sake, practitioner as Artist and artist as Outsider. These values are instrumental to the effectiveness of AaH as a relational and process-driven tool f... Read More about Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement.

Besieged by Inappropriate Criteria: Arts Organisations Developing Grounded Evaluation Approaches (2017)
Book Chapter
Raw, A., & Robson, M. (2017). Besieged by Inappropriate Criteria: Arts Organisations Developing Grounded Evaluation Approaches. In M. Reason, & N. Rowe (Eds.), Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art (123-138). Bloomsbury

Arts and health as a practice of liminality: managing the spaces of transformation for social and emotional wellbeing with primary school children (2012)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., & Robson, M. (2012). Arts and health as a practice of liminality: managing the spaces of transformation for social and emotional wellbeing with primary school children. Health & Place, 18(6), 1348-1355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.06.017

Intervention to enhance wellbeing through participation in the creative arts has a transformative potential, but the spatialities to this are poorly theorised. The paper examines arts-based interventions in two primary schools in which small groups o... Read More about Arts and health as a practice of liminality: managing the spaces of transformation for social and emotional wellbeing with primary school children.