Hilary Bungay is Professor of Arts Health and Wellbeing in the Faculty of Health Medicine and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University. Her main research focus is the developing area of arts, health and wellbeing and she has published widely in this area. Recent projects include: exploring the impact of participatory arts on social relationships for older people in residential care settings; collaborative working between artist and care home staff; the impact of museum-based arts activities on loneliness and older people; and most recently a project looking at how arts-in-nature practice with children can be scaled up and implemented more widely using community volunteers in schools.