In the health, wellbeing and community sectors, there is a growing movement to identify and
establish approaches which support the social, emotional and practical needs of individuals through
non-clinical approaches which support the social, emotional and practical needs of individuals through non-clinical prescribing. Social Prescribing makes use of existing community assets and resources (e.g. voluntary and community sector organisations, museums, libraries, parks and green spaces) by linking patients (through a Link Worker) with naturebased, green, creative, social justice, life-skills, as well as physical and psychologically beneficial activities; the most successful model of social prescribing is widely attributed to the Bromley-by-Bow Centre in East London. This is a rapidly growing area of practice as part of the NHS Universal Personalised Care plan, with a commitment to employ 1000 Social Prescribing Link Workers by March 2021 and thousands more in the longer term. More broadly, social prescribing can play a
significant role in addressing the health inequalities observed between certain demographic groups,
the social determinants of which are often exacerbated by poverty or social exclusion.

The starting point for student learning in this module is about applying practices of community-based
participatory research and co-production learning, which have a specific link to cultural activities
(cultural activities in the broadest sense), health and wellbeing. In taking this module, students will
get to build, develop and transfer their disciplinary knowledge and skills to support community
wellbeing and inclusion.

Co-production projects will centre around working with community organisations to either develop a
programme of emerging practice in social prescribing, or work on an established social prescribing
initiative to develop further practices. A key activity would involve students brokering relationships,
helping organisations understand social prescribing, and identifying what could help them. Such
interventions can be closely linked to areas which originate and link to students' own programmes and programme learning outcome.

Key to enabling students to experience the full long-term benefits of this module is developing their
skills in establishing strong working relationships with community organisations. Based on their
interactions with communities and organisations in east London, students will be supported and
given the specific tools to help them in learning co-production methods, and develop authentic
relationships with community partners, selected from a group of community organisations identified
by module leads and tutors.

The key output of learning on the module will be demonstrated by outputs identified as being of use
and relevance through co-production activity with community partners. Students will be supported to
build and develop cross-disciplinary knowledge, transferable skills and practical tools which will see
them focus on how ideas from their own and others' personal, disciplinary and professional backgrounds have shaped and continue to shape challenges in community wellbeing and social inclusion.

Students from different disciplinary backgrounds will be working alongside each other, and be
encouraged to better understand and consider how to develop connections between disciplines and
professional arrangements, as well as support them to make an impact in existing and new fields
associated with their chosen career paths.