Staff Profile

Introduction

My research examines how cultural engagement relates to people's everyday lives and meaning making process. As I am now working in medical education, my research has broadened out to look more widely at discrimination, stigma and social inclusion. All my research uses and interrogates a co-produced approach.

I explore the psychosocial barriers to engagement alongside the processes and outcomes of participation. Central to my work is investigating how motivation intersects with age, class, ethnicity and gender. My research in the fields of art consumption in the contemporary art gallery, lifelong learning and now healthcare, addresses questions around wellbeing, resilience and inclusion. 

Previous research has focused on the impact of art gallery educational programmes upon participants in terms of developments to their knowledge and understanding, self-confidence and sense of identity. With a background in gallery education, I am keen that research has a practical application and feeds into contemporary gallery education practice, providing meaningful experiences for participants. 

Prior to my current post I held the position of Research Fellow at the University of Manchester on the Ambition for Ageing programme, a £10.2 million programme of work which used a collaborative approach to combating social isolation in Greater Manchester.

I gained my PhD from the University of Newcastle in 2016, where I had previously worked as CI and PI on a number of research projects. These include:

• The role of creative interventions in fostering connectivity and resilience in older people is an AHRC-funded project critically reflecting on a range of approaches to developing resilience including community-led design, visual arts interventions, gardening and theatre.  
• Contemporary visual art and identity construction - wellbeing amongst older people, funded by the cross-research council New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, used a qualitative approach to gauge a range of older people's reactions to visiting contemporary art galleries.  This led to a follow-on project which contributed to research-informed arts policy and interventions designed to improve the lives of older people.  

• Dementia and Imagination: Connecting communities and developing well-being through socially engaged visual arts practice is being led by Dr. Windle at Bangor University and is funded by the AHRC Connected Communities Programme: Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-Being Large Grants. This project brings together researchers from social sciences in areas such as dementia, gerontology, psychology and economics with research in the visual arts, cultural policy and museum studies.  The project aims to look at developing well-being and connecting communities through socially engaged visual arts practice. 

• Research for Community Heritage was funded by AHRC under the Connected Communities Programme and involved working with heritage groups to develop their projects.

I am co-editor of The Sociology of the Arts book series published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Current Work

Recent research projects include:

SRA - An evaluation of the GMC and HEE Flexible Portfolio pilot programme

SRA - 2020 Medical Graduates: The work and wellbeing of interim Foundation Year 1 doctors during COVID-19

Research Fellow - Big Lottery Fund's Ageing Better programme 'Ambition for Ageing'. A £10.2 million Greater Manchester level programme aimed at creating more age friendly places and reducing social isolation.

PI - AHRC Connected Communities follow-up funded project exploring the role of creative interventions in fostering connectivity and resilience in older people.

Named RA and on Management Group - AHRC Communities, Cultures, Health and Wellbeing large grant 'Dementia and Imagination: Connecting communities and developing well-being through socially engaged visual arts practice'.

CI – a project exploring how the lives of older people can be improved by examining their use of contemporary visual art for identity construction practices funded by the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme (www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/).

CI - ESRC-funded Follow-on project developing research-informed arts policy and arts interventions designed to improve the wellbeing of older people - based upon the NDA funded research.

CI - a project that links University research with heritage groups in NE England funded by AHRC under the Connected Communities Programme.

Esteem Indicators

• Goulding A. In what ways can an age-friendly approach to co-production transfer power to participants? Translating ideology into practice. Voluntary Sector Review 2019, 10(3), 291-310.
• Goulding A, Phillipson P. How can older people co-researchers and professionals learn to co-produce together?. International Journal of Education and Ageing 2019, 5(1), 5-21.
• Goulding A. Setting the field: older people's conceptualisation of resilience and its relationship to cultural engagement. In: Goulding,A;Davenport,B;Newman,A, ed. Resilience and ageing: creativity, culture and community. Bristol: Policy Press, 2018, pp.19-42.
• Goulding A. The role of cultural engagement in older people's lives. Cultural Sociology 2018, 12(4), 518-539.
• Newman A, Goulding A. Narrative representations of the self: Encounters with contemporary visual art. In: Walker A, ed. The New Dynamics of Ageing. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2018, pp.263-284.
• Newman A, Goulding A, Davenport B, Windle G. The role of the visual arts in the resilience of people living with dementia in care homes. Ageing and Society 2019, 39(11), 2465-2482.
• Windle G, Gregory S, Howson-Griffiths T, Newman A, O'Brien D, Goulding A. Exploring the theoretical foundations of visual art programmes for people living with dementia. Dementia 2017, 17(6), 702-727.
• Goulding A. Older People Visiting Contemporary Art Galleries: The development of Cultural and Social Capital. In: Fricke, A; Hartogh,T, ed. Forschungsfeld Kulturgeragogik - Research in Cultural Geragogy. Munich, Germany: Kopaed, 2016, pp.357-378.
• Newman A, Baber M, O'Brien D, Goulding A, Jones CH, Howson T, Jones C, Parkinson C, Taylor K, Tischler V, Windle G. Carrying out research across the arts and humanities and social sciences: Developing the methodology for Dementia and Imagination. Cultural Trends 2016, 25(4), 218-232.
• Goulding A. Arts on prescription for older people: Different stakeholder perspectives on the challenges of providing evidence of impact on health outcomes. Journal of Applied Arts & Health 2014, 5(1), 83-108.
• Newman A, Goulding A, Whitehead C. Contemporary visual art and the construction of identity: maintenance and revision processes in older adults. International Journal of Heritage Studies 2014, 20(4), 432-453.
• Vera-Sanso P, Barrientos A, Damodaran L, Gilhooly G, Goulding A, Hennessy C, Means R, Murray M, Newman A, Olphert O, Sandhu J, Tew P, Thompson J, Victor C, Walford N. Participation and social connectivity. In: Walker, A, ed. New Science of Ageing. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2014, pp.181-208.
• Arber S, Bowling A, Creech A, Duncan M, Goulding A, Gyi D, Hallam S, Haslam C, Kazi A, Lloyd L, Lord J, Murphy M, Newman A, Phillips AC, Twumasi R, Upton J. Maintaining health and wellbeing: Overcoming barriers to healthy ageing. In: The New Science of Ageing. Bristol: Policy Press, 2014, pp.113-154.
• Murray M, Amigoni D, Bernard M, Crummett A, Goulding A, Munro L, Newman A, Rezzano J, Rickett M, Tew P, Warren L. Understanding and transforming ageing through the arts. In: Walker A, ed. New Science of Ageing. Poole: Policy Press, 2014, pp.77-112.
• Goulding A. How Can Contemporary Art Contribute Toward the Development of Social and Cultural Capital for People Aged 64 and Older. The Gerontologist 2013, 53(6), 1009-1019.
• Goulding A. A critical comparison of methods for evaluating Arts and Dementia programmes. Journal of Applied Arts and Health 2013, 4(2), 133-149.
• Goulding A. Older people learning through contemporary visual art – engagement and barriers. International Journal of Art & Design Education 2013, 32(1), 18-31.
• Newman A, Goulding A, Whitehead C. How cultural capital, habitus and class influence the responses of older adults to the field of contemporary visual art. Poetics 2013, 41(5), 456-480.
• Goulding A. Lifelong Learning for people aged 64+ within the Contemporary art gallery context. Educational Gerontology 2012, 38(4), 215-227.
• Newman A, Goulding A, Whitehead C. The Consumption of Contemporary Visual Art: Identity Formation in Late Adulthood. Cultural Trends 2012, 21(1), 29-45.
• Goulding A. Project Transfer - shifts in the social and cultural capital of Further Education construction students involved in constructing an artwork. Thinking Skills and Creativity 2009, 4(1), 1-14.
• Wildman JM, Goulding A, Moffatt S, Scharf T, Stenning A. Intergenerational equity, equality and reciprocity in economically and politically turbulent time: narratives from across generations. Ageing and Society 2021, epub ahead of print.