Nordic Arts & Health Research Network meeting on 12 December 2025, online

 

The Nordic Arts & Health Research Network organises their next online morning coffee meeting on 12 December 2025 at 9.00 – 10.30am (CET).

We warmly welcome all network members to participate in this informal online meeting together with your Nordic Arts and Health colleagues.

No pre-registration for the meeting is needed.

 

Programme:

9.00 – 9.05     Welcome

9.05 – 9.45      Kaja Korošec (Royal College of Music in Stockholm & Karolinska Institutet): The roles of music in the well-being of autistic adults

This presentation shares the results of Kaja Korošec’s doctoral research on the musical experiences of autistic adults and their impact on well-being. Grounded in Self-determination theory, the project includes three empirical studies—two based on interviews and one involving a newly developed questionnaire. The findings highlight that music can be experienced as both supportive and harmful, depending on the context and the individual’s sense of autonomy. The research highlights the need for more inclusive and nuanced approaches to music-based support services.

9.45 – 10.25   Dohee Lee: Fostering creative well-being: Theoretical models of collaborative partnerships in developing arts-health practices for older adults

As population aging becomes a major global issue, the arts and health sectors have increasingly recognized the benefits of arts-health practices in promoting not only healthy and creative aging but also the social well-being of older adults. This presentation seeks to advance understanding of the complex challenges faced by aging societies and to examine how arts-health practices can effectively address these issues. By highlighting the value of older adults’ late-life creativity and the importance of synergistic partnerships in the design and delivery of such practices, it proposes structural frameworks that support more inclusive, sustainable, and systematic models of implementation—fostering genuine collaboration among all stakeholders involved.

10.25 – 10.30   Info about the upcoming network meetings in 2026