Here you can read selected published reports on reading and health/wellbeing (as downloadable PDFs).

Curran, Mary, Evaluation report of the Get Into Reading Project: a qualitative evaluation of the impact of participation in reading groups (MA Dissertation, University of Lancaster, 2007).

Davis, Jane, The Art of Medicine. Enjoying and Enduring: Groups Reading Aloud for Wellbeing, The Lancet, Vol 373, February 2009.

Hodge S., Robinson J., Davis, P. (2007) Reading between the lines: the experiences of taking part in a community reading project, Medical Humanities 33: 100-104.

Robinson, J. (2008) Reading and Talking: Exploring the experience of taking part in reading groups at the Walton Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit (NRU), HaCCRU Research Report, 114/08.

Robinson J. (2008) Reading and Talking: Exploring the experience of taking part in reading groups at the Vauxhall Health Care Centre, HaCCRU Research Report 115/08.

P Scott-Graham, An Investigation into the Get Into Reading Project (Undergraduate Dissertation, University of Liverpool, 2008)

Evaluation of the Reader in Residence Project, Mersey Care NHS Trust, 2007-2008, SURE Merseyside (Service User Research and Evaluation), 2008.

You can also read Philip Davis on 'The Shakespeared Brain' over on our blog.