Loneliness is not always easy to talk about.
Loneliness Awareness Week | Not So Alone 2026 For many young people, it can sit in the background, sometimes hard to name, sometimes carrying a...
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When young people are part of the work, not just the story
At CREATE, we’ve spent the last few years working alongside young people through the Young Persons’ Advisory Group. Not as an add on, and not...
Four Years of CREATE: What I’ve Learned Along the Way
by Prof. Paul Cooke They showed how the arts can open up entirely new ways of thinking about and exploring mental health, approaches far more inventive, nuanced, and...
Proud in Bradford: Speaking Up at the Creative Health Exchange
CREATE’s Research Fellow Dr Crissie Harney and Project Manager Danelle Lee, along with YPAG members Bhava Raja and Annanya Thumbarthy, recently attended and presented a...
Do You Mean What I Mean?
Language, Power, and Participation in Youth Mental Health Research Language shapes how we work together—and sometimes how we fail to. During the webinar Do you...
Beyond the “Co”: Rethinking Co-Production in Research
In recent years, co-production has become a buzzword in research, especially in projects involving young people, community engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration. But as the CREATE...
Celebrating Project CREATE's Young Persons’ Advisory Group
The heart of Project CREATE has always been its Young Persons’ Advisory Group (YPAG) who did not just contribute to the project - they shaped it. Their...
Bringing Project CREATE to Rwanda: Co-Creating Change with Young People
Project Principal Investigator Professor Paul Cooke discusses a recent trip to Rwanda in Africa where he put some of the findings from Project CREATE into...
Reflecting through film: Closing Project CREATE with care and creativity
This blog post is written by Danelle Lee, Project CREATE’s Project Manager, who has been inspired by working alongside our Young Persons’ Advisory Group. Danelle...
Investigating the role of the arts in youth mental health
We spoke with Dr Ruth Herbert who is Co-Investigator on Project CREATE and music psychologist & lecturer in performing arts at City St. George's, University...