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Research Group & WHO Collaborating Centre based at the Department Behavioural Science & Health at UCL, led by Prof Daisy Fancourt, investigating how social factors affect health.
New paper out now! 💡
Can a digital health coaching app improve well-being for people living with multimorbidity? 📲
Our latest mixed-methods study using real-world data shows it can increase life satisfaction and happiness as well as reduce anxiety. 📈
Read more: www.jmir.org/2026/1/e78738/
Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨
#UCL200 #LoveUCL
Wonderful to see #ArtCure by Daisy Fancourt on the 2026 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist, announced today!
Check out the selection which celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women: womensprize.com/prizes/women...
And followed by Dr Dan Hayes presenting on the role of Social Prescribing in youth mental health
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Upcoming webinar: Prof Agustin Ibanez shares a multi-aging clocks framework to study arts, culture and brain health 🧠
🗓️ Thursday 26th February, 3-4pm GMT, online
🎟️ Register for your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grace-epi-...
📚 #ArtCure Competition! 🎁
Not yet bought your copy? Or have a friend you’d love to give one to?
This week we're running a prize draw to win an hour of free consultancy with author Prof Daisy Fancourt. Check out details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
A big thank you to our partners National Academy for Social Prescribing, Southbank Centre, Prudence Trust and @uclenterprise.bsky.social, all our fantastic speakers including @danhayesphd.bsky.social and @lousticp.bsky.social, plus attendees in the room and online in the UK and internationally 🌍
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Yesterday we hosted our Youth #SocialPrescribing Symposium!
A full event roundup will follow shortly, in the meantime check out brand new resources launched for the sector:
✅ Best Practice Guidelines: us14.list-manage.com/survey?u=ce9...
💻 Free Online Training: nasp.thinkific.com/products/cou...
Is 2026 the ‘seatbelt moment’ for the arts? Check out Professor Daisy Fancourt's new feature in Arts Professional 👇
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Yesterday we held the first event in our new series, GRACE-Epi Monthly Methods 📣
The recording is now available, so you can watch back Prof Daisy Fancourt's introduction to our major new global programme of work on #Arts & #Health 📺
sbbresearch.org/grace-epi-mo...
Loneliness is not just personal; it’s structural and universal. What would it take to design a society in which we can reconnect, belong and feel supported in the world around us?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVCc...
#TeamUp!
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The #CreativeHealth Research Round-Up 2025 by @ncch.bsky.social highlights researchers, practitioners & community leaders shaping the future of creative health! 📝
💡 Featuring one of our projects, SHAPER, that explored the impact of singing for postnatal depression:
sbbresearch.org/projects/sha...
Exciting job opportunity at UCL Centre for Behaviour Change! 👇
28.01.2026 14:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our #YouthSocialPrescribing Symposium with the National Academy for Social Prescribing & the Southbank Centre is coming up next week 🗓️
Check out our list of speakers & register to join online, Tuesday 3rd February, 2–4pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/youth-soci...
Last call to sign up for this Thursday's webinar! 👇
27.01.2026 09:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New #ArtCure event!
In this upcoming interview between Nikki Crane & Daisy Fancourt, discover the science behind #Creativity & #Wellbeing.
🗓️ Tue 3rd Feb, 7:00-8:30pm
📍 In person at @bellhousedulwich.bsky.social
🔗 Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/bellh...
💊 "If the arts were a pill, we would be taking it every single day" 💊
For Professor Daisy Fancourt, the mounting evidence on how engaging with the arts affects our health should transform the way we think about healthcare.
Weekend podcast listening! Daisy Fancourt talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the smash hit Art Cure: How the Arts Can Transform Your Health and Help You Live Longer newbooksnetwork.com/art-cure
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A photo of the world at night, with a teal curvy shape in the middle. Next to the SBB logo some text reads: "Announcing GRACE-Epi: A major new 7-year programme of Global Research on Arts and Cultural Engagement through advancing Epidemiological methods".
Want to hear about our brand new 7-year programme of global research on #Arts & #Health?
Join the first webinar in our new series “GRACE-Epi Monthly Methods” to hear an introduction from Prof Daisy Fancourt.
Online, Thursday 29th January, 1 – 2pm GMT. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grace-epi-...
Our website is freshly updated with the latest #ArtCure news, including:
🎧 How to listen to Prof Fancourt discussing #CreativeHealth across the airwaves
📚 Details of 2x prize draws to win a book copy
🎪 Upcoming events - next is Shakespeare's Globe on 26th Jan!
sbbresearch.org/projects/art...
How the arts can save your life: Professor Daisy Fancourt @ucliehc.bsky.social @uclpophealthsci.bsky.social, author of #ArtCure, offers five tips for making 2026 happier and healthier www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
16.01.2026 09:56 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Check out next month's event for #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek 🗓️
Featuring presentations from Prof Daisy Fancourt & @danhayesphd.bsky.social 👇
We’re excited to welcome Prof Daisy Fancourt (UCL) to BSPHN26, where she’ll share pioneering research on how social connections & behaviours shape health & wellbeing in dynamic, real-world environments.
Get your ticket today! 👇
#BehaviouralScience #ComplexityThinking #SocialHealth #ArtCure #BSPHN26
Last week, Prof Daisy Fancourt launched Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health.
For #UCL200, we’re marking 200 years of bold ideas like this shaping healthier lives.
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Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/population-h...
Have you seen our new research paper? 📊
We compared children’s in-school vs out-of-school #Arts and #Creative engagement across 73 countries, and the differences were striking... 🌍
Authors: Hei Wan Mak, Nisha Sajnani, Nils Fietje, Daisy Fancourt.
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
There's still time to apply to our vacancies!
Find out how to join the team as 'Research & Communications Administrator' or 'Research Fellow in Epidemiology & Statistics' 👇
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This morning Prof Daisy Fancourt appeared on BBC Radio 4's "Start the Week" programme 📻
Can music, literature and visual art change our lives physically and socially, as well as personally?
Listen back to the fascinating discussion with @adamrutherford.bsky.social: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Start the Week at 9 on BBC Radio 4. Three absolute crackers: Daisy Fancourt’s Art Cure, Tom Service’s A History of the World in 50 Pieces, and Chekhov’s youthful comedy, with Rosamund Bartlett.
We bring the joy in dark January.
