Speaking for English: Health and Wellbeing
48% of the reach and impact produced in English between 2014 and 2020 was judged 4*’, by far the best result in the Arts and Humanities, and an outcome that belongs to all departments, large and small, across the 4 nations of the UK. With this new series of Speaking for English 2023 the English Association, Institute for English Studies and University English team up to look behind the numbers to understand what our colleagues in departments of English are achieving. We want to understand the deep social, cultural and economic impact our subject is achieving. We also want to meet (and celebrate) the people behind our 2022 impact case studies, and find out how they did it!
- From Emergency Poet to the Poetry Pharmacy (Keele University)
- “Sewing Society together”: Realising the Healing Potential of applied theatre in areas of conflict or inequality (University of Edinburgh)
- Accessing Literature: widening cultural participation and improving mental health awareness through theatre and poetry (Bolton University)
- Ageing as Embodied Time (University of Warwick)
