Research

Based in the Centre for Performance Science, Rosie’s research investigates two broad areas within music and mental health: how music and the arts support societal wellbeing and how to enhance artists’ wellbeing and career development. Her research has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England, British Academy, Dutch Research Council, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and has featured in a wide range of international journals and press. Rosie is an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London and a Fellow of AdvanceHE (FHEA) and the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH). In 2019, Rosie was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music.

Carmine investigates the role of stress and inflammation in the pathogenesis of mental disorders and in the response to psychotropic drugs, both in clinical samples and experimental settings. His work focuses on depression and fatigue, with a particular interest in the perinatal period and in subjects with medical disorders. More recently, he has developed an interest in the effects of the arts, social prescribing, and nutritional interventions, on mental health.

Since 2018, Professor Pariante has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, and in his entire career, he has published 480 publications, with 33,500 citations and an H-Index of 95 in Scopus and 116 in Google Scholar. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the 2015 Anna-Monika Prize for Research on Depression, the 2016 PNIRS Normal Cousins Award for Research in Psychoneuroimmunology, the 2017 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Infant Mental Health, the 2017 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award (one of the most prestigious international research awards in psychiatry), the 2018 Art of Neuroscience Award, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Netherlands), the 2021 Psychiatric Communicator of the Year by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the 2022 Media Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is also the appointed Editor in Chief of the journal Brain Behaviour and Immunity and the President of the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Professor Pariante has extensive experience in reaching out to the press on topics related to mental health, with 70 media appearances in newspapers, magazines, radio and TV.

Alongside her post at UCL, Katey is also Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia (ECRED) at the University of Edinburgh. Her primary research area is in arts and health, including exploring singing for those with postnatal depression (with the WHO), dance for those living with dementia (as Principal Investigator, funded by RSE) and for young people living with anxiety (as Principal Investigator, funded by the UKRI), singing for those affected by cancer, and performing arts activities for hospital patients. Dr Warran also has an interest in policy and has contributed to a range of policy reports, including for the DCMS and Arts Council England.

Daisy Fancourt is Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology and Head of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group at UCL (www.sbbresearch.org). Daisy studied at Oxford University and King’s College London before completing her PhD in psychoneuroimmunology at UCL and postdoctoral work at Imperial College London/RCM alongside working in the NHS. Her research focuses on the effects of social connections and behaviours on health, including social deficits (e.g. loneliness and social isolation) and social assets (e.g. community engagement, arts & cultural activities, and social prescribing).

Daisy has received nearly £30 million in research funding as Principal and Co-Investigator and her research has been recognised by fellowships from Wellcome and British Academy and two dozen national and international awards, including from the British Science Association, Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome, British Academy, American Psychosomatic Society, AHRC, Royal Society for Public Health and NHS England. Daisy is Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on Arts and Health as well as a member of two WHO Technical Advisory Groups, an Expert Scientific Advisory to UK Government. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and Royal Society of Arts and has been named a BBC New Generation Thinker and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

Calum was one of the founders of the Arts & health Ethics  Collective at Oxford, an open collective for researchers and students affiliated with the Wellcome Centre for Ethics & Humanities to share ideas, create opportunities for collaboration with artists, engage in public health discussions and communicate to the wider research community.  He is currently project managing a WHO study exploring the implementation and scalability of group singing for postnatal depression in different culture contexts as well as having co-authored the protocol.  He co-authored the Culture for Health and Wellbeing Compendium and has contributed to other reports for Culture for Health.  Outside of research, Calum is passionate about music, festivals, running, spending time with friends and his new hammock.