PhD Project - Martina Italia
The arts have a central role in several aspects of human life, from self-expression and entertainment to transmitting culture and sharing ideas. In the literature, arts-based methods have been shown to be particularly effective when it comes to expressing complicated concepts, learning and teaching, and even behaviour change. They can also help address emotional and social behavioural determinants, which interventions often overlook. Since implementation outcomes heavily depend on social and contextual determinants, arts-based methods have also been recommended as a powerful medium to consider for implementation research. However, there is currently no guidance for implementation scientists on how and why to adopt arts-based methods.
The aim of this project is to address this by investigating the role the arts have played so far in implementation science research, understanding stakeholders’ perspectives on arts-based methods, and using the data to inform the development of recommendations for implementations scientists’ use of arts-based methods.
First, a systematic review will determine how the arts have been used across different stages of implementation research. Second, an inductive qualitative analysis will explore stakeholders’ attitudes and experiences of arts-based methods. Stakeholders will be drawn mainly from a team refining and feasibility testing a care bundle for pregnant women with multiple long-term conditions (iBUMP), enabling co-production of a meaningful output. Finally, the COM-B model will be used to identify behavioural determinants of the use of arts-based methods, and findings will be integrated into the development of recommendations for implementation scientists.
Supervisors: Dr Kristin Konnyu, Dr Mairead Black
Contacts
- Martina Italia; m.italia.25@abdn.ac.uk