Trinity Laban’s The Language of Pain creative health research project, led by Principal Investigator and Research Fellow Dr Rebecca Stancliffe, is featured in the Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025 report.
Led by the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) in partnership with the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), the inaugural Creative Health Research Round-Up highlights the breadth, quality, and real-world relevance of creative health evidence across the UK. The report is designed both as a record of activity in the field and as a practical navigational tool, supporting practitioners, researchers, policymakers, commissioners, and system leaders to understand what is currently being explored, how knowledge is being generated, and where future effort may be most usefully directed.
The Language of Pain is an ongoing creative health research project that seeks to give ‘voice’ to the invisible and often denied experience of chronic illness and pain. Using somatic practice and arts-based methods, the aim is to increase awareness of what it means to live with chronic illness and pain by expressing experiences and knowledge that are often denied or overlooked.
You can read The Language of Pain report here: Language-of-Pain-compressed.pdf
You can find the Research Roud-Up report here: NCCH_RSPH-Creative-Health-Research-Round-Up-2025.pdf