As part of their Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) research project, Wellsbourne Healthcare Community Interest Company developed a series of audio files which present research data as sound. Otherwise known as ‘sonification’, this enables people to hear and understand data in a unique and accessible way.

Click on the examples below to listen to the sonified data. The examples present individual responses to Wellsbourne Healthcare CIC’s survey investigating the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on health and opprotunity in the communities of Manor Farm, Bristol Estare and Whitehawk in East Brighton. The survey had 178 responses.

Each clip is introduced and briefly explained by Keith Turner, who carried out the researcher along with his co-researcer, Lucy Mitchell. As a blind person, Keith has been particularly interested in exploring accessible and creative ways of presenting data.

The above clips were also arranged together into a piece of music, which you can hear below.

Further information

• TwoTone, the web app used by Wellsbourne Healthcare CIC to turn data into music. Click here to visit the TwoTone website.

• Wellsbourne Healthcare CIC’s research was carried out as part of the CPAR programme of support for community organisations in the South East of England to carry out their own research projects. Find out more about CPAR here.

• Wellsbourne Healthcare Community Interest Company (CIC) is a local GP surgery in East Brighton. It was set up in 2018 by doctors and nurses working in the area, to provide a better service for local people. See their website for more.