Conclusion The partnership practices within the workforce of Music for Health in Morecambe is a strong indicator of its value. It is a partnership with collective commitment to sharing the experience of working together, learning from each other, being open to understanding and working within the priorities of partners in new ways, and working with care, cooperation and a commitment to supporting others. In these ways, the experience of working together is modelling qualities that the project outcomes themselves hope to facilitate, such as a sense of cohesion through community, which the project’s funding seeks to evidence, to promote the role of the arts in place-based health. As such, the experience of working together within Music for Health in Morecambe can also be communicated as evidence of its impact as a project. This is not to suggest that the partnership driving Music for Health in Morecambe have devised the perfect recipe for a successful and sustainable partnership. However, it is to suggest that by working with them to better understand how they communicate value from their
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different sectoral perspectives of music’s role in challenging health inequalities, their engagement in critical and reflexive research processes has illuminated ways that they work together in negotiation. Specifically, towards a collective voice for how their work may have value for place-based ways of challenging health inequalities. We think this, because through the process of designing the research questions with More Music, interviewing the partnership, engaging in knowledge-exchange to communicate research findings and working together to identify the important questions to take forwards, through online action research, we have come to know some of the sectoral and place-based factors that frame how the project is understood and consequently valued. Particularly, how these experiences resonate with established discourse of value, reporting and impact in cultural sector research. Through this, partner-practitioners we worked with in this research have modelled
