Get your ticket to join Daisy Fancourt in conversation with award-winning playwrights 🎭
📍The Other Palace theatre, London, Mon 23rd March 7pm
The evening promises a rich discussion on the health impact of arts, pioneering social prescribing programmes & the importance of arts funding.
You can now watch back the recording of our latest GRACE-Epi Monthly Methods webinar, featuring a presentation from Professor Agustín Ibáñez 📺
During the session we heard about a multi-aging clocks framework to study #Arts, #Culture and #BrainHealth 🧠
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uJB...
What are the experiences of young people (& their caregivers) waiting for mental health services in the UK?
Check out this new spotlight on research from our team: Emeline Han, Alexandra Burton, Alexandra Bradbury, Daniel Hayes, Joely Wright, Lou Sticpewich, Joanna Page, & Daisy Fancourt 🔍
In this extract from Daisy Fancourt's Art Cure, the March read for the New Scientist Book Club, we learn about how art classes transformed life for Russell after he had a stroke
As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on its read for March, Art Cure, author Daisy Fancourt gives a sneak preview into the myriad ways in which the arts can improve our health
New resources from the Social Prescribing Youth Network. “Best Practice Guidelines: Child & Youth Social Prescribing” provides recommendations for commissioners & policymakers, VCFSE organisations, link workers & frontline practitioners, researchers & evaluators.
sbbresearch.org/spyn/
Prof Daisy Fancourt has recently become an Ambassador of @creativelivescl.bsky.social!
Working together we aim to raise the profile of everyday creativity, and achieve a step change in public and policy recognition of the importance of arts participation.
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Cover of “Art Cure”, book by Daisy Fancourt. This is about how arts transform our health.
Today’s #artprescription is this fantastic book. As the author says - you could flip the premise to how a lack of arts/culture damage our health. The political economy of arts, culture and heritage isn’t just jobs, careers, exports & growth (obvs all important!) - also about investment for health.
New #ArtCure event announcement! 📣
Next month Prof Fancourt will be joining award-winning playwrights James Graham & Suzie Miller for an evening of conversation.
📅 Monday 23rd March, 7:00pm @theotherpalace.bsky.social, London.
Browse this & other upcoming events: sbbresearch.org/projects/art...
World-leading expert and award-winning scientist Professor Daisy Fancourt puts together a case for the transformative power of the arts in the inspiring ‘Art Cure’. To learn more, we spoke to Daisy about her book, research, writing process and more. Read our interview here: bit.ly/43kztTY
One week to go until our webinar with Professor Agustin Ibanez, a global leader in brain health!
If you're an academic, researcher or practitioner interested in novel methodologies check out details and tickets below 👇
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this event & work, including the National Academy for Social Prescribing, Southbank Centre, Prudence Trust, @uclenterprise.bsky.social, #SPYN Advisory Board, Youth Advisory Group, roundtable participants, plus our fantastic speakers & attendees!
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Earlier this month we convened national leaders across policy, practice, research & youth voice to shape the next phase of youth #SocialPrescribing in England.
Check out our roundup blog for:
📋 New best practice guidelines
💡 Free online training
📺 Event recording
sbbresearch.org/new-resource...
Join the EXPeditions online base camp! 🏕️
Each month, we explore innovative ideas featured on our platform: luma.com/ixsuzd1h?tk=...
The first idea we will explore at Base Camp is engaging in the arts for health. 🎨
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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 🌍
A photo of the Symposium, with a group of people listening to a presentation. A banner of partner logos appears above and the text reads: "Youth Social Prescribing Symposium, New resources launched, now available for free".
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 👇
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?
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#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! 👇
Our #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! 👇
New #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...
