17/06/2026
We are delighted to announce that our Programme & Evaluation Lead Maddie has been awarded The Discovery Research Platform’s Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship at Durham University 🎉!
The Practice Research Fellowships support researchers from the health and voluntary sectors to undertake research into a critical issue they have encountered in their practice and to learn about medical humanities approaches and methods, and how these can enhance their research plans.
In her research, Maddie will be examining and championing the power of using creativity as health evidence, to explore how our work at Creative Health Camden improves health outcomes.
As a pioneering creative health charity, we have continued to facilitate space that enables our participants to be creative, thus improving their health and wellbeing. The activities which we run are often used as a tool to explore health journeys, experiences, and creativity acts as a communication tool for stories that are often difficult to say out loud.
Maddie will examine whether we can use visual communication to share the impact of the work we do to our NHS colleges. This will hopefully be used as an alternative to extractive data collection methods, that often reduce patients to economic values.
Congratulations Maddie - we cannot wait to see what you achieve during your fellowship 👏!
