Why the arts are good for us with Prof Daisy Fancourt

Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri by Annalisa Barbieri

May 21, 202637:13Society & Culture

Daisy Fancourt is a professor of psychobiology and epidemiology and head of the Social Biobehavioural research group at University College London. She has a Phd in psycho-neuroimmunology and is also director of the World...

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