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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Professor Daisy Fancourt: no photograph is held, so the academic plate is shown instead.
Academic
Professor Daisy Fancourt
Professor investigating arts and health
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press citations on 2 topics since 3 Mar 2026 · last quoted 29 Oct 2026
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Professor Daisy Fancourt: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor investigating arts and health
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 3 Mar 2026
04 The signal · where Professor Daisy Fancourt sits on elderly care & frailty
Ranked 51= of 100 voices quoted in the press on elderly care & frailty, level with 49 others on 1 citation.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Caroline AbrahamsSector leaderCharity Director, Age UK7 - 2
Professor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)6 - 3
Nadra AhmedSector leaderExecutive Co-Chairman, National Care Association5 - 51=
Dr Melanie StephensClinicianAssociate professor (reader) in adult nursing, University of Salford1 - 51=Dr Nadia AhmadCliniciandoctor and medical director1
- 51=Professor Daisy FancourtAcademicProfessor investigating arts and health1
- 51=David FloodClinicianFormer nurse, acute hospital during Covid1
- 51=James TownsendSector leaderChief executive and co-founder, Mobilise1
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05 On the record · press
What Professor Daisy Fancourt has said
By outlet · linked articles
- gponline.com1
- theguardian.com1
Where Professor Daisy Fancourt has been quoted
- 01'Seat-belt moment' needed to harness health benefits of the arts | GPonlinegponline.com · 29 Oct 2026
- 02‘How incredibly stimulating!’ Retirees on discovering a new world through dancetheguardian.com · 3 Mar 2026
Verbatim
“if people are regularly engaged, either actively participating or more receptively engaging in the arts over time, they experience improvements in mental distress, mental functioning, life satisfaction”
“When people engage in dance, they experience a lot of the same beneficial processes that other art forms activate. For example, the activation of neural reward centres in the brain, increases in neurotransmitters involved in feelings of happiness and increased ability to regulate emotions, whether through diverting people from their worries or as a way of cathartically venting and giving form to their emotions. Dance, in addition, brings a lot of the benefits of exercise.”
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