INCAAHR
International Network for the Critical Appraisal of Arts and Health Research
A network of the Interuniversity Organisation Arts & Knowledges (Mozarteum University of Salzburg and the University of Salzburg).
Overview
The International Network for the Critical Appraisal of Arts and Health Research seeks to promote excellence and critical appraisal in arts and health practice and research. It is concerned with critical appraisal and research quality and aims to develop evidence-based practice and policy – both being reliant on good quality research.
Mission
The network will cultivate the development of inclusive networks for knowledge transfer of contemporary arts-for-health practices and will address the promotion of mental and physical health in all age groups, including those with acute and chronic illness and special needs. Furthermore, the network seeks international collaboration to develop clinical standards for adjuvant arts for health practices and social prescribing schemes, along with assessing their impacts.
Aims
- to promote excellence through robust and transparent appraisal of arts and health research.
- to develop guidelines for conducting and reporting arts and health research and evidence reviews.
- to critically assess the role of research in shaping arts and health policies and evidence-based practices.
Team
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Priv. Doz.in Dr.in Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring, Paris Lodron University and Mozarteum University Salzburg (Co-Chair)
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Eleanor Marie Krisztin Pesl (Assistant and Coordinator)
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Prof. Dr. Stephen Clift, Canterbury Christ Church University (Chair)
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Priv. Doz.in Dr.in Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring, Paris Lodron University and Mozarteum University Salzburg (Co-Chair)
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Eleanor Marie Krisztin Pesl (Assistant and Coordinator)
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Prof. Dr. Stephen Clift, Canterbury Christ Church University (Chair)
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Priv. Doz.in Dr.in Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring, Paris Lodron University and Mozarteum University Salzburg (Co-Chair)
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Eleanor Marie Krisztin Pesl (Assistant and Coordinator)
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Prof. Dr. Stephen Clift, Canterbury Christ Church University (Chair)
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Priv. Doz.in Dr.in Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring, Paris Lodron University and Mozarteum University Salzburg (Co-Chair)
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Eleanor Marie Krisztin Pesl (Assistant and Coordinator)
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Prof. Dr. Stephen Clift, Canterbury Christ Church University (Chair)
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Members
- J. Riikka Ahokas, University of Jyväskylä
- Eva Mari Andreasen, University of Agder
- Joshua S. Bamford, University of Oxford
- Arne Bathke, Paris Lodron University Salzburg
- Christian Bazant-Hegemark, Salzburg Institute for Arts in Medicine
- Katherine Boydell, The University of New South Wales
- Hilary Bungay, Anglia Ruskin University
- Ni Dhuill Caitriona, University of Salzburg
- Emily-Rose Cluderay, Independent Arts & Health Practitioner-Researcher
- Gilles Comeau, University of Ottawa
- Juan Pablo Correa, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
- Andrew Danso, University of Jyväskylä
- Christina Davies, The University of Western Australia
- Helena Daffern, University of York
- E. Sebastian Debus, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg
- Nicole D'souza, School of Epidemiology and Public Health
- Daisy Fancourt, University College London
- Anna Fekete, University of Vienna
- Isabel Fernholz, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Marcel Foster, University of Florida
- Rafaela Neiva Ganga, Liverpool John Moores University
- Barbara Groot-Sluijsmans, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
- Sayaka Kato Honda, St. Luke’s International Hospital
- Nicola Holt, University of the West of England
- Anita Jensen, Lund University
- Mette Kaasgaard, University of Southern Denmark Zealand University
- Lorraine Kalia, University of Toronto
- Radwa Khalil, School of Business, Social and Descision Sciences, Constructor University, Bremen
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Friederike Köhler, University of Jyväskylä
- Gunter Kreutz, University Oldenburg
- Mookie Lee-Menuhin, Pianist, Neuroscientist
- Chi Yhun Lo, Macquarie University
- Kat Lord-Watson, Queen Margaret University
- Tenley Martin, Leeds Beckett University
- Ruth Mateus-Berr
- Matt McCrary, Hannover Medical School
- George Musgrave, University of London
- Marcos Nadal, University of the Balearic
- Urs Markus Nater, University of Vienna
- Alicia Lucendo Noriega, University of Jyväskylä
- Valerie Oberleithner, Salzburg Institute for Arts in Medicine
- Matthew Pelowski, University of Vienna
- Kate Phillips, University of Derby
- Angela Pickard, Canterbury Christ Church University
- Eva Schurig, University Oldenburg
- Abdul Seckam, Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Alison Short, Western Sydney University
- Martin Skov, Copenhagen University Hospital
- Michael Studnicka, Paracelsus Medical University
- Michael T. Tan Koon Boon, University of the Arts Singapore
- Leonhard Thun-Hohenstein, Salzburg Institute for Arts in Medicine
- MacKenzie Trupp, University of Vienna
- Janneke E.P. van Leeuwen, University College London
- Martin Weichbold, University of Salzburg
- Angieszka Wellenger, Salzburg Institute for Arts in Medicine
- Janet Ritterman
Publications
- The need for a critical perspective on arts and health research and evidence reviews
Grebosz-Haring, K. & Clift, S. (2025) - Prevalence of experienced changes in artistic and everyday creativity in people with Parkinson's disease
Spee, B. T. M., Crone, J. S., Darweesh, S. K. L., Meinders, M. J., Arato, J., Kim, Y. A., Bloem, B. R. & Pelowski, M. (2025) - Arts, cultural engagement and health inequalities. Critical reflections on the UK Creative Health Review (2023)
Clift, S., McCrary, J. M.,; Kaasgaard, M., Kreutz, G., Musgrave, G., Danso, A. et al. (2025) - Arts-based interventions: Why It's Complex, and Why That Matters: Comment on "Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique"
Holt, N. J. (2025) - Working in the content factory": musicians' social media use and mental health as seen through the lens of a transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural conceptualisation
Musgrave, G., Carney, D., Silver, E. & Timber, M. S. ( 2025) - The impact of viewing art on well-being - a systematic review of the evidence base and suggested mechanisms
Trupp, M. D., Howlin, C., Fekete, A., Kutsche, J., Fingerhut, J. & Pelowski, M. (2025) - Prescribing Creativity? Arts’ Unhealthy Relationship with "Health"
Musgrave, G. (2025) - Can we learn from the arts about health?: Comment on "Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique"
Kreutz. G. (2025) - Musicians, the music industry, and suicide: epidemiology, risk factors, and suggested prevention approaches
Musgrave, G. & Lamis, D. A. (2025) - Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique
Skov, M. & Nadal, M. (2025) - Good Arts, Good Mental Health®: the effectiveness of an Australian health promotion media campaign in promoting community mental wellbeing via the arts
Davis, C., Pescud, M. T., Clifford, R., McGrath, R., Thomson, A., Jeffrey M. et al. (2025) - Is it premature to formulate recommendations for policy and practice, based on culture and health research? A robust critique of the CultureForHealth (2022) report
Kaasgaard, M., Grebosz-Haring, K., Davies, C., Musgrave, G., Shriraam, J., McCrary, JM & Clift, S. (2024) - The need for robust critique of arts and health research: the treatment of the Gene Cohen et al. (2006) paper on singing, wellbeing and health in subsequent evidence reviews
Clift, S., Grebosz-Haring, K., Thun-Hohenstein, L., Schuchter-Wiegand, A. K., Bathke, A., & Kaasgaard, M. (2024) - WHO-Lancet Global Series on health and the arts
Clift, S., Bathke, A., Daffern, H., Davies, C., Grebosz-Haring, K., Kaasgaard M., McCrary J., Musgrave, G. & Thun-Hohenstein, L (2024) - Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire: Music Education, Mental Health, and Our Students’ Futures
Musgrave, G. (2024) - If Art Were a Drug: Implications for Parkinson's Disease
Gros, P., Spee B. T. M., Bloem B.R. & Kalia L.V. (2024) - Critical perspectives on Arts on Prescription
Bungay, H., Jensen, A. & Holt, N. (2024) - The need for robust critique of arts and health research: Dance-movement therapy, girls, and depression
Grebosz-Haring, K., Thun-Hohenstein, L., Schuchter-Wiegand, Bathke, A. & Clift, S. (2023) - The need for robust critique of arts and health research: An examination of the Goldbeck and Ellerkamp (2012) randomised controlled trial of music therapy for anxiety in children, and its treatment in four systematic reviews
Clift, S., Grebosz-Haring, K., Thun-Hohenstein, L., Schuchter-Wiegand, A. K. & Bathke, A. C. (2022) - The Need for Robust Critique of Arts and Health Research: Young People, Art Therapy and Mental Health
Grebosz-Haring, K., Thun-Hohenstein, L., Schuchter-Wiegand, A. K., Irons, Y., Bathke, A. C., Phillips, K. & Clift, S. (2022) - Culture for health?
Clift, S., Daffern, H., Davies, C., Grebosz-Haring, K., Kaasgaard, M., McCrary & J. M., Musgrave G. (2022) - What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review
Clift, S. (2020)