Podcast appearances and mentions of Daisy Fancourt

Five years ago, in response to the Covid pandemic, the government mandated a series of lockdowns, with the closure of schools and businesses and social distancing. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by guests to discuss how such a monumental event could have had affected brain cognition, and whether there have been lasting effects on young people. But he also hears tales of resilience among neurodiverse communities.The neuroscientist Daniel Yon looks at the cognitive impact of unprecedented events in his forthcoming book, A Trick of the Mind - How the Brain Invents Your Reality (published, June 2025). He explains how times of instability and uncertainty upset the brain's ability to understand the world, and make people more susceptible to conspiracy theories. The Covid-19 Social Study was the largest study exploring the psychological and social effects of the pandemic on the UK population. Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology at University College London explains what they learnt about the impact of social isolation. The developmental psychologist at Cambridge University, Professor Claire Hughes, has looked more closely at families with young children, across six different countries, with very different lockdown policies. Although there was a link between family stress related to the pandemic and child problem behaviours, more recent work questions whether the lockdown has had longer term effects. The artist and zinemaker Dr Lea Cooper has co-curated a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice (until 14th September). Zines are self-published works, and Dr Cooper says several on display were created during lockdown, and showcase personal stories of resistance and self-expression.Producer: Katy HickmanPart of BBC Radio 4's series of programmes exploring Lockdown's Legacy

https://Art2Life.com - Arts and aesthetic experiences positively influence our body, brain, and behavior, improving our overall health and well-being. Find out more about the fascinating journey that led Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen to write their groundbreaking book, unveiling scientific proof of what many artists intuitively understand—the transformative power of art in our lives. We'll discuss memorable stories of personal transformation through art, the neurological mechanisms behind our sensory experiences, and the importance of cultivating an "aesthetic mindset" for a more fulfilling life.  Listen in to find out how art can enrich our lives and make us more vibrant, dynamic human beings. If you've ever wanted to understand the profound impact of creativity on our minds and bodies, this episode is one you won't want to miss. ================================ LISTEN IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN… (00:00) How Ivy and Susan connected over their shared love for play and curiosity  (08:10) Artists intuitively grasp concepts, with science now catching up  (14:27) Creating art allows deep exploration of personal tastes without judgment  (16:31) Connecting with passions fuels creativity and sparks an inspirational energy  (23:26) Feel before thinking; creative expression can reveal true emotions  (30:29) The experiment on neuroaesthetics at Milan Salone  (37:07) How firefighters use painting to alleviate PTSD  (43:00) How their book weaves together science and storytelling  (44:51) Art improves mental health in young moms  (55:52) Artists in Santa Fe create experiential art that moves beyond traditional forms  ================================ RESOURCES MENTIONED Your Brain on Art: https://www.yourbrainonart.com/ Luminary Scholars at Johns Hopkins: https://www.artsandmindlab.org/people/ Finding "A Space for Being" at Salone del Mobile in Milan: https://blog.google/technology/design/a-space-for-being-salone-del-mobile-milan/ The relationship between arts and cultural services and health outcomes by Daisy Fancourt: https://cloa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Prof-Daisy-Fancourt-The-relationship-between-arts-and-cultural-services.pdf Margaret Chisolm, MD: https://margaretchisolmmd.com/ Dominic Di Mare: https://browngrotta.com/artists/dominic-di-mare About Joan Mitchell: https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/joan-mitchell Your Brain on Art: https://www.amazon.com/dp/059344924X Ashes2Art: https://www.firerescue1.com/trauma/articles/ashes2art-the-healing-power-of-creativity-for-firefighters-RGvsB1bDarCKxMLy/ Meow Wolf: https://meowwolf.com/ Ep 151 of the Art2Life Podcast: https://www.art2life.com/2024/11/06/wisdom-art-and-longing-judy-tuwaletstiwa-ep-151/ ================================= CONNECT WITH IVY ROSS AND SUSAN MAGSAMEN Susan Magasmen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-magsamen-6345918/  Ivy Ross on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossivy/  Your Brain on Art on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/your-brain-on-art/  ============================= CONNECT WITH NICHOLAS WILTON AND ART2LIFE: Get the Free COLOR TIPS PDF: https://workshop.art2life.com/color-tips-pdf-podcasts/  Follow the Sunday Art2Life Vlog: https://art2life.lpages.co/sign-up-for-the-a2l-vlog/  Follow Nicholas Wilton's Art on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholaswilton/  Follow Art2Life on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/art2life_world/?hl=en  Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Art2Life  #Art2Life #FineArt #AbstractArt #ModernArt #Contemporary

In this episode, business coach Virginia Foley emphasises the significance of setting boundaries and embracing the power of saying "No" in November. Nutritional therapist Sarah Brereton, from Natural Life, shares practical tips with Clare for a better understanding of nutrients and vitamins. Plus, Daisy Fancourt sheds light on the vital role of arts and culture in our health and wellbeing, advocating for policies that reflect this connection

What can we learn from children's experiences in the Pandemic at home and at school? Can children express their experiences through drawing, and how might a simple curtain help create happy family homes? Lindsey McEwen is Professor of Environmental Management within the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research involved working with children in Bristol to understand their experiences and impact of the Pandemic on their school lives. As part of the research, she helped to create a children's book called "Learning to Live With Fog Monsters" which aims to understand and help children to cope with the impacts of invisible threats like pandemics or climate change. The book and more information on the project are available at https://www.vip-clear.org/the-primary-book/ Rosie Parnell is Professor of Architecture & Pedagogy at the University of Newcastle. Her research explored the impact on home design and sharing family spaces during the pandemic, and how families changed homes during the Covid lockdowns. As part of the research, she helped to create a "Home Hack Help Kit" to help families come up with solutions to issues around shared spaces in the home, which can be found here https://homehacktoolkit.co.uk/ Dr Daisy Fancourt is Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Health Institute of Epidemiology & Health and University College London and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Producer: Sofie Vilcins This New Thinking conversation is a part of a series of 5 episodes of the Arts and Ideas podcast marking the 75th anniversary of the NHS focusing on new research in UK universities which explores links between the arts and health. It is made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI. You can find out more on their website https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/ and if you want to hear more there is a collection called New Research on the website of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0144txn or sign up for the Arts and Ideas podcast on BBC Sounds

To mark World Mental Health Day, Tom Service presents a special programme in collaboration with Professor Sally Marlow, a mental health specialist at King's College London and BBC Radio 3's first ever Researcher in Residence. Composer Gavin Higgins talks to Tom about how his early musical life in brass bands helped him to deal with his symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. We visit Bethlem Gallery to meet composer and artist Gawain Hewitt and Fiona Lambert from City of London Sinfonia's 'Sound Young Minds' project, a music-making programme with young people under the care of psychiatric hospitals. Daisy Fancourt talks about a large-scale study looking at how singing can be used to treat postnatal depression, and James Sanderson from NHS England sets out what he sees as music's role in social prescribing. We explore mental health among musicians with writer, musician and mental health advocate Tabby Kerwin reflecting on the situation in the brass band movement, and James Ainscough from the charity Help Musicians discusses the recent increase in the number of musicians from across the industry seeking help from their new charity Music Minds Matter. Plus we talk to soprano Patricia Auchterlonie, composer Oliver Leith and director Anna Morrissey about their new opera Last Days at the Linbury Theatre and how the mental health and wellbeing of the cast is being supported. And we're in Crook in County Durham to catch up with the community arts organisation Jack Drum Arts, which provides music sessions to help support the mental health of children and young people in the local area.

Our focus has been on pursuing God's purpose in our lives. According to British researchers Andrew Steptoe and Daisy Fancourt, ‘Maintaining a sense that life is worthwhile may be particularly important at older ages when social and emotional ties often fragment, social engagement is reduced, and health problems may limit personal options.'

 In this episode, I talk with Penny Osmond, workshop and choir leader, about her singing work with new mums who have perinatal mental health disorders. We discuss the first randomised control research in this area, led by Professors Rosie Perkins and Daisy Fancourt, which found that singing could relieve moderate to severe post-natal depression at double the rate of control groups. We also hear about Penny's wider music and perinatal mental health programmes including Songs from Home – addressing social isolation in new mums through online songwriting, and Music at Heart, singing with mothers referred through a hospital. 

Back in 2020 at height of pandemic lockdown the “ Social Study” a longitudinal study began looking at the psychological and social impact of the pandemic involving over 95,000 UK adults. What started as a 12 week study has now been running for 2 years. So now, as we're emerging from restrictions of the pandemic, epidemiologist Daisy Fancourt of University College London discusses the post -pandemic's impact on our mental health. Do you find yourself keep getting lost? Many factors influence our ability to navigate but the environment we grow up in is often overlooked. Could living in the city compared to the countryside help or hinder our sense of direction? Claudia hears from Professor Hugo Spiers whose major new study across 40 countries reveals people who grew up in rural or suburban areas have better spatial navigation skills than those raised in cities, particularly cities with grid-pattern streets. Good conversation can be one of life's most enjoyable experiences, but we are surprisingly bad at judging how well conversations could go with a stranger. Mike Kardas of North Western university has attempted to examine the time course of enjoyment after getting 1000 participants to strike up a conversation with a stranger. Surprisingly we don't run out of things to say. but how deep can a conversation go? Claudia Hammond's studio guest is Professor of health psychology Daryl O'Connor from the University of Leeds Producer Adrian Washbourne

Join hosts Xand and Rochelle for Episode 2 ‘Singing the praises of communities with Dr Daisy Fancourt and Eric Whitacre. “Every single person feels part of something larger than themselves.” Communities are vital for a functioning society, but in an ever-changing world, has the concept of what ‘community' means evolved into something new? Can virtual choirs really help with regulating emotions and coping with stress in the same way that singing live in a room full of people could? And is social prescribing of arts through linked support services the answer? Grammy-award winning composer Eric Whitacre, and associate professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at UCL Dr Daisy Fancourt, seek to answer these questions and more, from studying the social factors on health such as loneliness and isolation, to how singing can help regulate emotions and cope with stress, and the physiological benefits that belonging to a community can bring. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/health-of-public/singing-praises-communities-transcript Date of episode recording: 2022-01-25 Duration: 00:34:37 Language of episode: English Presenter:Xand Van Tulleken; Rochelle Burgess Guests: Daisy Fancourt; Eric Whitacre Producer: Annabelle Buckland

Drama and gaming are being used in a pair of projects exploring adolescent mental health. Dr Daisy Fancourt finds out why this meeting of the arts and science might unlock new ideas for treatments and discovers the different ways in which young people are participating in the projects. Professor Eunice Ma is the Provost of Falmouth University and is co-leading a new project called ATTUNE. This will look at the way adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can affect adolescents' mental health with the aim of developing new approaches to prevention and care. Edmund Sonuga-Barke is Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience at King's College London and is leading a new project called RE-STAR which aims to help young people with neuroatypicalities such as Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). You can find information about the projects on this link https://www.ukri.org/news/24-million-investment-into-adolescent-mental-health/ The podcast is made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI. You can find a playlist called New Research on the website for Radio 3's Free Thinking programme and all the episodes are available as Arts & Ideas podcasts. Producer: Phoebe McFarlane

Today, I welcome the talented & creative Constanza Roeder to the show! She is the founder & CEO of the ‘Hearts Need Art : Creative Support for Patients and Caregivers' - a non-profit organization based out of San Antonio, Texas. Her experience as an adolescent Leukemia survivor transformed into a calling to create a world where everyone can experience moments of joy, self-expression, and connection while facing life-altering health challenges. She now speaks, writes, and empowers others to "re-frame and reclaim" the healing power of their own creativity and is on a mission to “humanize healthcare” through the arts. We had a fantastic conversation about how arts and music can help those in treatment and recovery, the physical and mental health benefits of art, why so many people stop pursing art at such an early age, and much more! Constanza also co-hosts a podcast ('Arts for the Health of It') that carries the same theme of art and music therapy helping during treatment and recovery. Find Constanza here : ✅ https://constanzaroeder.com ✅ https://heartsneedart.org ✅ https://heartsneedart.org/podcast/ Here are some of the links she suggested early in the episode : ✅ https://arts.ufl.edu/academics/center-for-arts-in-medicine/ (Center for the Arts in Medicine) ✅ https://thenoah.net (National Organization of Arts in Health) ✅ https://twitter.com/Daisy_Fancourt

Jill Sonke is a creative healer in service to a community of doctors, nurses, artists, educators, and most of all, patients on a journey that reunites the arts and medicine in their age-old roles as healing partners. BIOJill is director of the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida (UF), and is currently serving as Senior Advisor to the CDC Vaccine Confidence and Demand Team on the COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Task Force. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the UF School of Theatre & Dance, Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, the Center for African Studies, the STEM Translational Communication Center, and the One Health Center. Jill serves on the editorial board for Arts & Health journal and as a consulting editor for Health Promotion Practice journal. She is also director of the EpiArts Lab, a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab at UF, and the national initiative, Creating Health Communities: Arts + Public Health in America.  Dr. Sonke studied dance at Interlochen Arts Academy, the Florida State University, in London, Paris, and Athens with teachers of the Horton and Duncan techniques including Bella Lewitsky, Lynda Davis, Milton Meyers, Joy Kellman, Lori Belilove, Julia Levine, and Hortense Koluris. She has been a principle dancer and soloist with Lori Belilove & the Isadora Duncan Dance Company in New York and a guest performer and choreographer with Dance Alive! and Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theatre. With 27+ years of experience and leadership in arts in health, Dr. Sonke is active in research, teaching, and international cultural exchange. Her current research focuses on the arts and health communication, the arts in public health, and the effects of music on cost and quality of care in emergency medicine. She is the recipient of a New Forms Florida Fellowship Award, a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Award, an Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, a UF Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, a UF Most Outstanding Service Learning Faculty Award, a UF Public Health Champions award, a UF Cross-Campus Faculty Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and over 300 grants for her programs and research at the University of Florida. Delicious QuotesWe were very fortunate to be in an institution with leaders who understood that the arts fit and we're important in a healthcare setting. That people should have the ability to engage creatively to make that experience of healthcare better, not just patients, but staff, and visitors and others. I remember going into rooms and introducing myself, you know, " dancer in residence," and people would furrow their brow and say, “I'm in the hospital, that doesn't belong here.” … Then the view of our program kind of evolved into “It's really nice. … it's really lovely.” And then after a bit more time, the overarching recognition was that this is really important …because our, our care providers we're recognizing that artists are really crucial members of the interprofessional care team. We interviewed all 31 members of the nursing staff on a medical surgical unit over a period of about 18 months to learn about how they perceived the effects of the work of artists in residence on their unit. …So, we learned that nurses recognized the benefits of engagement in the arts for their patients. They were asking the artists to come in when their patients needed distraction and relaxation, those sorts of things. … from a clinical perspective, they noticed that blood oxygen saturation. It would go up. That wasn't the focus of our study. I want to be clear, but observationally, they were noting the clinical things like that. (Dr. Daisy Fancourt) has been able to, to articulate very significant associations between arts and cultural participation in health. For example, people over the age of 50 who go to museums or galleries, … just... Support this podcast

Ever noticed how good singing makes you feel? In this episode, Michael is joined by comedian Sindhu Vee to embrace the joys - and health benefits - of singing on the top of your voice. He finds out all about its unique mood-lifting ability and how singing can produce similar effects to cannabis. He speaks to Dr Daisy Fancourt to find out about her research on revealing how singing can boost your immune system and how it could help treat chronic pain.

Something happens when we go to the theatre, visit an art gallery, or hear music in the company of others, and it's good for us, whatever our background, whatever the socio-economic indicators that mould our perceptions and expectations of art. That's the contention – and, in part, the conclusion – of Daisy Fancourt and Alan Steptoe in their paper on Cultural Engagement and Mental Heath: does socio-economic status explain the association? (1982). But Fancourt and Steptoe leave important questions unanswered: what is the difference between the social and the personal experience of art, and how do we measure our collective interest in the kind of art – some poetry might be a good example – that has, over time, exchanged social ritual for individual contemplation? How does this less popular “engagement” with the world of art, music or literature affect our relationship with class, our sense of belonging and obligation, all things that can affect our mood and prevent our interests finding expression in the first place? Maybe all art involves an exchange of self-consciousness (including class consciousness) for imaginative awareness. An actor discovers the intoxications and responsibilities of presence, we speak of being liberated by music. Those autonomous qualities – presence and the feeling of liberation – are what make artistic activity difficult for authoritarian regimes, and necessary for the artists (and audiences) who must try to survive them. They're also signposts on the way back from personal contemplation to social significance. The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski (1945–2021) wrote lyric verse, but its beautiful vigilance is disturbed by the shadow-side of watchfulness, the presence of the censor, and by his own urgent requirement for what he called “non-naive realism”. In the two poems discussed here – “Night is a Cistern” and “Tierra del Fuego”, both wonderfully translated by Clare Cavanaugh – the poet speaks to us directly and we become his ambiguous political witnesses, at once refugees and bystanders; also, perhaps, spies.

Kora przedczołowa, neurotroficzny czynnik pochodzenia mózgowego, hipokampus, kortyzol, ciało migdałowate, układ limbiczny, zakręt zębaty… Co się dzieje z naszymi mózgami w czasach lockdownów? Jakim ulegają zmianom? I czy te zmiany są na lepsze czy na gorsze? Teoretycznych podstaw dostarczają University College London czy Max Planck Institute a ciekawostkami są myszka w jaskini w Teksasie i stacja badawcza na Antarktydzie. A może Adam Karmański ma znajomych, którzy podzielą się jakimiś naszymi, polskimi, ciekawymi przemyśleniami w tym zakresie? I czy można temu jakoś zaradzić? Więcej w 235 odcinku Piotrka Dobrej Rady. #wykuwam #piotrekdobrarada #remoteonly #pracazdalna #mózg https://youtu.be/J3skNYIMJKg Mój mail piotr.konopka@innothink.com.pl Mój LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/konopka Link do odcinka na YouTube https://youtu.be/J3skNYIMJKg Link do podcastu https://pod.fo/e/bf286 SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/piotr-konopka-286414158/piotrek-dobra-rada-odc-235-izolacja-a-zmiany-w-mozgu Inspiracja https://www.the-scientist.com/features/how-social-isolation-affects-the-brain-67701 Moja strona internetowa https://piotr-konopka.pl Strona firmowa https://www.innothink.com.pl Moje podcasty https://podfollow.com/piotrek-dobra-rada/view iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/piotrek-dobra-rada/id1513135345 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6bu6ZEMBKJAd2LMLr7ABKP Transkrypcja poniżej Cześć. Nazywam się Piotrek Konopka i witam Was w kolejnym, 235 już odcinku z cyklu Piotrek Dobra Rada mówi o pracy zdalnej. Dzisiaj powiem kilka słów na temat tego, co ta samotność robi z naszymi mózgami. Już w marcu 2020 roku, na samym początku, jak tylko Boris Johnson w Wielkiej Brytanii ogłosił lockdown, Daisy Fancourt - jest to epidemiolożka na University College London - i jej koledzy rozpoczęli badanie, które rozpoczęło takie pierwsze długotrwałe badanie efektów lockdownów w czasie rzeczywistym. Od 24 marca do połowy czerwca badacze zrekrutowali 70.000 osób, które mają za zadanie odpowiadać co tydzień na wywiady prowadzone online o dobrostanie, o zdrowiu psychicznym i o strategiach radzenia sobie z bieżącą sytuacją. Ale dlatego takie badanie w ogóle się rozpoczęło? W 1972 roku badaczy i podróżnik francuski Michel Siffre zamknął się w jaskini w Teksasie na ponad 6 miesięcy. Był to najdłuższy eksperyment samoizolacji na świecie. Ale dzisiaj jesteśmy tak naprawdę o kilka miliardów case'ów mądrzejsi - co prawda nie jest to dobrowolny wybór ale jednak jesteśmy mądrzejsi - i Michel bardzo starannie dokumentował to, co działo się z nim w trakcie tego eksperymentu. Po 205 dniach pisał, że ledwie mógł formułować jakiekolwiek myśli. Po pięciu miesiącach był tak zdesperowany, że próbował zaprzyjaźnić się z myszką, którą znalazł w tej jaskini - niestety nie udało się tej przyjaźni nawiązać. Ale jakie zmiany pojawiają się w naszych mózgach? na przykład w korze przedczołowej - to w niektórych badaniach ludzie samotni mają mniejszą objętość mózgu w korze przedczołowej a ta kora odpowiada za podejmowanie decyzji i zachowania społeczne jeżeli chodzi o hipokampus - to ludzie i zwierzęta mają mniejsze hipokampusy i obniżony poziom białka, które nazywa się neurotroficzny czynnik pochodzenia mózgowego. I to skutkuje upośledzeniem procesów uczenia się i procesu zapamiętywania. Dodatkowo pojawia się wtedy też podwyższony poziom kortyzolu czyli hormonu stresu. Jeżeli chodzi o trzeci obszar w naszym mózgu, to mówimy o ciele migdałowatym. Ponad 10 lat temu badacze znaleźli korelację pomiędzy wielkością siatki powiązań ludzkich czyli (networkingiem) a wielkością ciała migdałowatego, czyli obszaru odpowiedzialnego za przetwarzanie emocji. Mniejsze ciało migdałowate mają osoby, które są samotne

Dr Daisy Fancourt is an Associate Professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London, and is currently running the UK's largest study into the psychological and social impact of COVID – 19.Follow Daisy:Twitter: https://twitter.com/daisy_fancourt?lang=enThe COVID-19 Social Study: https://www.covidsocialstudy.org/The COVID Minds Network: https://www.covidminds.org/Subscribe to The Kempcast Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-kempcast/id1509339264Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0jpyA0_lbm5B7ugrgNEOugInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosskemptv/Twitter: https://twitter.com/RossKempFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/RossKempTVProduced by The Chancer Collective: http://thechancercollective.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_chancer_collective/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChancerCollectMusic by Reteps: http://reteps.net/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the UK, we are currently in the midst of our third lockdown since the pandemic began, and there has been a huge surge in people experiencing mental distress, anxiety and depression during the past year. The novelty of the first lockdown, in which people optimistically took up a variety of new activities, such as learning a language or baking endless loaves of banana bread, has long worn off, and many people now feel like they've used up their “coping resources”. Confusing public health messaging has led to great uncertainty, a feeling that we're having to put our lives on hold, and dwindling hope. In this week's episode, we discuss the difficulty of measuring the mental health impact of the pandemic, and how other issues (such as financial strain or bereavement) may cause long-term mental health problems. We also talk about loneliness: how to approach the subject with our patients, and the role that social prescribing may play in tackling it. Our guests; Daisy Fancourt is an associate professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at UCL. She is the lead researcher on the COVID-19 social study, (https://www.covidsocialstudy.org/) which looks at the psychological and societal impact of the pandemic, and she is also the director of the COVID-Minds Network (https://www.covidminds.org/). Dr. Farhana Mann is a psychiatrist in London and Wellcome Clinical Research Fellow at the Division of Psychiatry, UCL. She has been on the government advisory group on tackling loneliness, and is part of the UKRI Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Network, led by UCL. Additional resources/further reading: 'A life less lonely: the state of the art in interventions to reduce loneliness in people with mental health problems' https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-017-1392-y 'Loneliness in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional results from the COVID-19 Psychological Wellbeing Study' https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513993/ 'Understanding loneliness in the twenty-first century: an update on correlates, risk factors, and potential solutions' Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2020) 55:793–810 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01889-7 UCL Network is @ucl_loneliness on Twitter, and they are a good place to start if looking for updates on the field. People are very welcome to get in touch via the website too: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/loneliness-and-social-isolation

Jeremy sits down with mental health professionals to discuss a subject close to his heart: the state of the nation's mental health. They discuss how it has fared in the pandemic, and what hope there is, and isn't, for the near future.Participants include Daisy Fancourt, who leads the 'COVID-19 Social Study', a longitudinal study into the psychological and social impact of the pandemic involving over 95,000 adults in the UK; Paul Farmer, CEO of the mental health charity, Mind; Professor Miranda Wolpert, Head of Mental Health Priority Area at the Wellcome Trust, and Marjorie Wallace, CEO of the mental health charity, SANE.Resources:The study Daisy Fancourt is leading into the mental health impacts of covid and covid responses is at www.covidsocialstudy.orgInformation about the work Miranda Wolpert is doing at Wellcome is here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/active-ingredients-youth-mental-health-story-so-far-nov-wolpert/?trackingId=IgN74vP1TXGolBHc3Ikkew%3D%3DMarjorie's mental health charity, SANE, is here: http://www.sane.org.uk/Paul's mental health charity, Mind, is here: https://www.mind.org.uk/ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tom Service talks to soprano, Claire Booth about a filmed production for Welsh National Opera of Poulenc’s La voix humaine. The monodrama was written in 1958 but the themes of isolation and lost connectivity are equally relevant today. As Radio 3 marks a decade of New Generation Thinkers, Dr Daisy Fancourt describes how music and the arts are necessary for mental and physical health. Dr Joseph Sonnabend, one of the leading doctors during the early years of the AIDS pandemic, talks to Tom about those times in New York as well has his life as a composer and his love of music by Alban Berg. Suzi Digby, Artistic Director & Founder of ORA Singers talks about what the future holds for our professional choirs and composers. And, Judith Webster, Chief Executive of Music for Youth, explains how young people are making innovative choices about how to celebrate music-making both live and online. Producer: Marie-Claire Doris

This week’s episode is the first in a two-part special about how Coronavirus is affecting women. We're joined by Dr Daisy Fancourt to hear more about the findings of her study exploring the differing impacts of Covid on the UK population over the past 33 weeks - from exacerbated social inequalities to the psychological implications of lockdown, including loneliness, isolation, domestic abuse, and fertility and family planning issues - as well as behaviours that can help improve mental health. We're also joined by Dr Tamjid Mujtaba to discuss her work exploring how ethnic minority women in higher education are coping during the pandemic. Next week we’ll be focusing on a particularly vulnerable group of women, women who are pregnant and new mothers. Our guests this week: - Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health - Dr Tamjid Mujtaba, Principal Research Fellow, IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirus Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-28 If you’ve got a question about the pandemic you’d like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL’s Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we’d love to hear from you.

This week's episode is the first in a two-part special about how Coronavirus is affecting women. We're joined by Dr Daisy Fancourt to hear more about the findings of her study exploring the differing impacts of Covid on the UK population over the past 33 weeks - from exacerbated social inequalities to the psychological implications of lockdown, including loneliness, isolation, domestic abuse, and fertility and family planning issues - as well as behaviours that can help improve mental health. We're also joined by Dr Tamjid Mujtaba to discuss her work exploring how ethnic minority women in higher education are coping during the pandemic.Next week we'll be focusing on a particularly vulnerable group of women, women who are pregnant and new mothers.Our guests this week:- Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health- Dr Tamjid Mujtaba, Principal Research Fellow, IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy & AssessmentMore info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/coronavirusTranscript: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-28If you've got a question about the pandemic you'd like UCL researchers to answer, please get in touch by emailing UCL's Communications and Marketing team on minds@ucl.ac.uk – we'd love to hear from you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

More than two-thirds of adults in the UK have reported feeling somewhat or very worried about the effect Covid-19 is having on their life. The most common issues affecting well being are worry about the future, feeling stressed or anxious and feeling bored. So what does the data say about what has really happened to the nation’s mental health during the pandemic? Claudia Hammond hears about the short and potential long term impacts, possible ways to address the effects, and examines the psychological tools to get through an uncertain winter from so called Awe-Walks to the technique of Decentering. With contributions from: Tim Dalgleish, Professor of Clinical Psychology University of Cambridge Til Wykes, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at King's College London. Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology University College London Virginia Sturm, UCSF Centre for Psychophysiology and Behaviour James Downs, mental health and eating disorders activist Producer Adrian Washbourne

Wondering what lockdown did to the nation's physical and mental health? Then wonder no longer, because this week Hannah's been on the phone to Dr Daisy Fancourt, one of the team behind the Covid Social Study, to find out how things like sex, age, race and socio-economic grouping absolutely affected how you will have experienced the last six months. Hazel Davis chats to Michelle Rawlins, author of Women Of Steel, which charts the story of the incredible Sheffield women who stepped up during World War II to keep the foundry fires burning. In Rated or Dated, we're bemoaning the wanton waste of perfectly good whiskey - and Jerry Bruckheimer's vision of feminism - as we watch soon-to-be 20 Coyote Ugly. And in the Bush Telegraph, Mick's chatting Brexit, Hannah's chatting Trump and we're all thanking monkey Jesus that David Attenborough's joined Instagram. Tuck in! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How do we cope and protect ourselves and our communities?This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and we're exploring the impact of coronavirus on people's emotional wellbeing and mental health. Hear from UCL experts as they talk about how it affects us in lockdown, front line staff, bereaved families, the vulnerable, and the many factors that impact various groups.With special guests :Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor at the Institute of Epidemiology & HealthDr Jo Billings, Clinical Associate Professor at the Division of Psychiatry,Dr Rochelle Burgess, Lecturer in Global Health at the Institute for Global Health.Access the transcript and more info on www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts…avirus-whole-storyUCL support available: www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-a…-covid-19-outbreak See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Emerging from lockdown might not be as easy on our mental health as it sounds. After weeks spent adjusting to lockdown and working out how to cope, how easy is it to re-adjust to old routines? And is it even possible to predict how we’ll feel about things in a few weeks’ time? Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Health at University College London discusses the latest results from the Covid-19 Social study, exploring how people’s feelings have changed during the course of the pandemic. Claudia Hammond is also joined by Paul Dolan, Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, and James Downs, a campaigner on mental health and eating disorders. Claudia Hammond’s guest is psychologist Prof Daryl O’Connor from University of Leeds with news of new research on the striking impact a supportive family environment can have on your susceptibility to the common cold in later life. We are hearing a lot about the possibility of job losses in the future as a result of the pandemic. But there are some people starting new jobs under lockdown – with the prospect of not meeting their colleagues in person. So how will people manage? We hear from two experts who are just embarking – or about to embark, on new jobs: Andrew Clements a senior lecturer in Organisational Psychology at the University of Bedfordshire and Gail Kinman, Visiting Professor of Occupational Health Psychology at Birkbeck University. Producer Adrian Washbourne Produced in association with the Open University

Spike Lee’s new film Da 5 Bloods follows four African-American Vietnam veterans who served together in battle, who return to the country and reunite to locate their fallen squad leader. The writer and director discusses the Netflix film and how resonant many of its issues are particularly now, in the week of its release. Dr Daisy Fancourt is leading the UK’s biggest study looking at the impact the coronavirus crisis has had on our mental health. In recent weeks the team has been looking at the effect of participating in arts and crafts on our wellbeing during this turbulent time. She explains the findings. Hope Mirrlees' Paris – A Poem is a modernist masterpiece that is little known today. It was published in 1920, two years before TS Eliot’s The Waste Land - which might well have been influenced by it. A century later Paris - A Poem has been published again. Neil Gaiman, a big fan, and Sandeep Parma, who is working on a biography of Mirrlees, reveal the importance of this lost poem, illustrated by extracts read by Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Dymphna Flynn Studio Manager: John Boland

How do we cope and protect ourselves and our communities? This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and we’re exploring the impact of coronavirus on people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health. Hear from UCL experts as they talk about how it affects us in lockdown, front line staff, bereaved families, the vulnerable, and the many factors that impact various groups. With special guests : - Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor at the Institute of Epidemiology & Health - Dr Jo Billings, Clinical Associate Professor at the Division of Psychiatry, - Dr Rochelle Burgess, Lecturer in Global Health at the Institute for Global Health. Access the transcript and more info on https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus-whole-story UCL support available: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-and-wellbeing/support-during-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, Front Row’s Lockdown Artist in Residence, continues his weekly live performances from the empty Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik. Tonight he plays an energetic piece by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass, Etude No.9. What has been the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on our mental health and how might being creative at home help our mental wellbeing at this challenging time? Dr Daisy Fancourt is leading the UK’s biggest study looking at the impact the coronavirus crisis has had on our mental health. She explains their findings so far and the potential impact craft can have on mental wellbeing. And embroiderer Ekta Kaul and maker Joe Hartley discuss how their own practice has changed under lockdown, the online tutorials they’ve been running and how you can start making at home yourself. We mark the loss of the great afrobeat drummer Tony Allen whose death has been announced at the age of 79 with an interview for Front Row from 2014. And novelist Sara Collins and critic Karen Krizanovich review Hollywood, the Netflix series from Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy, and the new Lionel Shriver novel The Motion of the Body Through Space. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah Johnson Studio manager: Matilda Macari

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses. As drastic measures are taken across the world to stop the spread of COVID-19,  what are the short, medium and long term implications for our society, our economy, geopolitics - and us as individuals?In this special interview series from the RSA, it’s chief executive, Matthew Taylor, talks to a range of practitioners - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - to assess the scale of the response and consider how we build effective bridges to our new future. Daisy Fancourt is Associate Professor in Psychobiology & Epidemiology at University College London.  If you wish to take part in The UCL study on the mental health impact of Coronavirus click here. Produced by Craig Templeton SmithIn this time of global change, strong communities and initiatives that bring people together are more invaluable than ever before. The RSA Fellowship is a global network of problem solvers. We invite you to join our community today to stay connected, inspired and motivated in the months ahead. You can learn more about the Fellowship or start an application by clicking  here. 

In 1649, a month after the execution of King Charles I, the distraught composer Thomas Tomkins wrote a piece of music called "A sad pavan for these distracted times". And in our own confusing times, is sad music what we need - or not? Tom Service looks at music's power to heal, to build community and to redefine historical events. With Associate Professor at University College London, Dr Daisy Fancourt, and author of "Singing in the Age of Anxiety", Laura Tunbridge.

Fastyr Mie and welcome to the 2018 Spotlight review of the year! And what a year it’s been on our creative little Island - you’ve given me plenty to talk about and this selection of best bits doesn’t nearly cover all the great conversations we’ve had through 2019. We begin with writer and storyteller Michael Rosen, who told us that parents are feeling the pressure to be entertaining and getting a sort of ‘stage fright’ when reading books aloud to their children. Later in January, Maurice Powell introduced us to composer and conductor, Gavin Sutherland, who through his career has taken a particular interest in the work of Haydn Wood. In February, Russian Pianist, Yulia Chaplina visited the Island to share a very special programme of music with Ramsey Music Society. It was a bumper programme with the one and only Monty Don who told us what he finds so inspiring about Japanese gardens. We also heard from Sara Hogg and Sue Quilliam of Glen Mooar Cottage Retreat in Sulby at the Isle of Man Art Festival. Dr Daisy Fancourt joined us in in the spring to discuss the value of creativity. Richard Cole visited the Island in the summer to play the mighty Wurlizter in the Villa Marina Arcade and he gave us a full tour of this incredible instrument. Young Frank Joughin won a special award for his composition in the autumn, when the Isle of Man Freethinker’s Society invited local musicians to compose a piece to be played at their Remembrance Service. We finish with a lovely poem by our current Manx Bard, Zoe Cannell. If you want to be part of the programme, email Spotlight@manxradio.com and we’ll be happy to celebrate your creative endeavours. For now, Blein vie Noa, Happy New Year to you all!

Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology at UCL talks about the #ArtsOnPrescription conference taking place in London on 21st November 2019.

In the first episode of the series, we interview the primary investigator and founder of the MARCH network, Dr Daisy Fancourt. We talk about Daisy's research around cultural engagement and mental health, singing in mothers with post-natal depression, and the importance of inter-disciplinary work. Join the MARCH network: marchnetwork.org Follow MARCH, Daisy, and myself on twitter: @networkMARCH ; @Daisy_Fancourt ; @henryaughterson Please give us a rating, review, and subscribe on Apple podcasts or Google podcasts if you enjoyed, to help us reach more people! Also on Spotify. And do share the episode link with others. Studies we discussed: Singing and post-natal depression: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/effect-of-singing-interventions-on-symptoms-of-postnatal-depression-threearm-randomised-controlled-trial/534122E539704BAEAC0824F9FCACC5A8 Cultural engagement and depression, using ELSA dataset: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/cultural-engagement-and-incident-depression-in-older-adults-evidence-from-the-english-longitudinal-study-of-ageing/F25368CA79340C430B046A1DDDDC05B6 Socioeconomic status and cultural engagement: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619304198?via%3Dihub More publications by Daisy and her team: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-health-care/people/fancourt

Naomi Paxton discusses the latest science and clinical practice with psychologist Dr Daisy Fancourt, a psychologist and epidemiologist who studies the relationship between music and health, and Dr Simon Opher, a GP in Gloucestershire who prescribes music and other cultural practices for his patients. Producer: Luke Mulhall

Singing can lift our spirits, but research suggests it could also benefit our health, improving breathing for people with lung conditions and helping us cope with dementia. Could it even have a preventative effect? CrowdScience heads to Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK county of Gloucestershire - one of the first places to pioneer this kind of “social prescribing” - to find out. Presenter Anand Jagatia teams up with panellists Dr Daisy Fancourt, Senior Research Associate in Behavioural Science, Dr Simon Opher, family doctor and Clinical Lead for Social Prescribing, and Maggie Grady, Director of Music Therapy at charity Mindsong to learn more. They’re joined on-stage by their Breathe In Sing Out and Meaningful Music volunteer singing groups to find out what this much-loved musical pastime can do for us. Producer: Jen Whyntie (Photo: Students singing in a choir with their teacher. Credit: Getty Images)

This week, we’re talking about creativity with Dr Daisy Fancourt, Annie Kissack tells Christy about Caarjyn Cooidjagh’s upcoming album release, we speak to artists at Mother T’s and we have the new single from Francesca May.

When Guy Chambers teamed up with Robbie Williams in 1997, they created one of the most successful songwriting partnerships in British pop history. Now Guy has released his debut solo album called Go Gentle into the Light, performing hits such as Angels and Millennium on the piano. Writer Nina Stibbe has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for her novel, Reasons to be Cheerful. She discusses the art of comic writing. Even a small amount of creativity can help you cope with modern life - so says new research by BBC Arts and University College London. The BBC Arts Great British Creativity Test surveyed almost 50,000 people to explore links between arts activities and wellbeing. Dr Daisy Fancourt, UCL Senior Research Fellow shares the key findings. Presenter: Stig Abell Producer: Edwina Pitman

Visiting museums could help us slow our rate of cognitive decline, according to a new paper published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. In this episode, we speak to one of the authors of that paper, Daisy Fancourt, about the research and why it suggested that museums may be of benefit in slowing cognitive decline. We also discussed some of the limitations of the research and guarded against visiting museums being seen as a cure. We're also joined by Dr Derek Tracy, from the editorial board of the British Journal of Psychiatry, and Victoria Zamperoni, from the Mental Health Foundation's research team. In addition, Bethan Buswell and Stuart Hill discuss student mental health and the allocation of £2 billion for mental health services in the autumn budget.

An apple a day is said to keep the doctor away but could a poem, painting or play have the same effect? Daisy Fancourt is a Wellcome Research Fellow at University College London. In her Essay, recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead for the Free Thinking Festival, she looks at experiments with results which which prove that going to a museum is known to enhance neuronal structure in the brain and improve its functioning and people who play a musical instrument have a lower risk of developing dementia. What does this mean for our attitudes towards the arts and what impact are arts prescriptions having ?Daisy Fancourt has published a book called Arts in Health: Designing and researching interventions .New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio.Recorded at the 2018 Free Thinking Festival and includes questions and answers from the audience at Sage Gateshead. Producer: Zahid Warley

An apple a day is said to keep the doctor away but could a poem, painting or play have the same effect? Daisy Fancourt is a Wellcome Research Fellow at University College London. In her Essay, recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead for the Free Thinking Festival, she looks at experiments with results which which prove that going to a museum is known to enhance neuronal structure in the brain and improve its functioning and people who play a musical instrument have a lower risk of developing dementia. What does this mean for our attitudes towards the arts and what impact are arts prescriptions having ?Daisy Fancourt has published a book called Arts in Health: Designing and researching interventions .New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radioProducer: Zahid Warley.

Author and photojournalist Bella Bathurst suddenly began to lose her hearing as an adult in 1997. Twelve years later, an operation enabled her to recover it. She has written a book about her experience, insights gained about listening and the science behind deafness. 2017 New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt researches the effect of the arts on immune response and public health.New Generation Thinker Will Abberley has curated an exhibition exploring birds in British literature. Director, screenwriter and composer Mike Figgis encourages writers to rethink plotting in his new book, The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations.Sound: Stories of Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst is available now. Stories on the Wing: British Birds in Literature runs at the Booth Museum in Brighton from 19 May to 21 September 2017. Free admission. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations by Mike Figgis is published on 1 June 2017.New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with academics to turn their research into radio and television. You can find more broadcasts and films on the Free Thinking website. Producer: Karl Bos

Musik kan påverka hälsan, men hur? Det är ämnet för det här programmet som börjar i olika typer av ljud - vid en havstrand, i en skog, i en stad, på ett barnkalas och fortsätter med Brahms och Abba. Passa på att fundera över hur du själv upplever de olika ljuden och musikstyckena i programmet! Musiken kan bland annat användas för att lindra smärta och påverka stresshormoner, underlätta kroppens matsmältning och hjärtverksamhet, dämpa ångest genom att stimulera kroppens produktion av "lyckohormoner" som endorfin, den kan lugna och pigga upp och skapa gemenskap. Bland annat visar forskning att "lyckohormonet" oxytocin ökar vid sång i grupp, men musiken kan vara vilken som helst. I programmet medverkar kulturhälsoforskaren Eva Bojner Horwitz, professor em vid Stressforskningsinstitutet i Stockholm Töres Theorell, den brittiska forskaren Daisy Fancourt som studerar hur konstupplevelser påverkar exempelvis immunsystemet, den brittiska musikterapeuten Gary Ansdell, musikterapeuten Lena Uggla, och professor em och musikpsykologen Alf Gabrielsson. Uppläsare Ann-Charlotte Waldenmark. En P2-dokumentär av Katarina Lindblad.