Arts and Creativity: Raising Attainment, Attendance and Aspiration in Young People Facing Disadvantage

Our work is being considered by more and more educators, care providers and pedagogues as “vital to the region” (Professor Simon James, Arts Council’s Durham Commission on Creativity and Education). Subsequently, we have recently been awarded a Doctoral Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership.

From 2025 – 2028, a PhD candidate at Durham University will examine our impact, as a way to help propagate evidence-based interventions like ours elsewhere. This research will be published in 2028, and will be shared widely within the creative arts, education and health sectors in our region and beyond.

If you’d like to talk to us about this project, or you are a teacher and would like to be a part of the project get in touch with us at info@handof.co.uk