The association of solitary versus group-based arts participation with mental health: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study
Journal Article - October 3, 2025
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Does frequency or diversity of leisure activity matter more for epigenetic ageing? Analyses of arts engagement and physical activity
Journal Article - September 16, 2025
Precarity and second job-holding in the creative economy
Journal Article - September 3, 2025
A review of studies on the mechanisms of cultural heritage influencing subjective well-being
Journal Article - December 13, 2024
Art for health’s sake or health for art’s sake: disentangling the bidirectional relationships between arts engagement and mental health
Journal Article - November 1, 2024
Valuing subjective well-being benefits from leisure activities: informing post-Covid public funding of arts, culture and sport
Journal Article - March 1, 2024
Heritage and the wellbeing economy
Report - November 29, 2023
Is social capital higher in areas with a higher density of historic assets? Analyses of 11,112 adults living in England
Journal Article - February 12, 2023
A Bourdieusian latent class analysis of cultural, arts, heritage and sports activities in the UK representative Understanding Society dataset
Journal Article - November 13, 2022
Faster Internet displaces social capital in the UK
Media - July 10, 2022
Cultural, arts and community engagement can benefit wellbeing, but how do our neighbourhoods influence our participation?
Report - April 15, 2022
Museum and theatre trips do not yield higher GCSE results, study finds
Media - March 13, 2022
Museum and gallery trips have no impact on GCSE grades – study
Media - March 13, 2022
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’
Journal Article - March 13, 2022
Museum visits do not improve GCSE results, study reveals
Media - March 12, 2022
Broadband Internet and social capital
Journal Article - February 15, 2022
Written evidence submitted by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (LEV0150) [House of Commons. Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Reimagining where we live: cultural placemaking and the levelling up agenda inquiry]
Parliamentary Paper - February 15, 2022
Researchers draw link between internet speed, political participation
Media - January 24, 2022
Faster Internet speed linked to lower civic participation, claims study
Media - January 24, 2022
Faster internet speeds linked to lower civic engagement in UK
Media - January 23, 2022
Participation in socio‑cultural activities and subjective well‑being of natives and migrants: evidence from Germany and the UK
Journal Article - December 15, 2021
Broadband Internet and social capital
Research Paper, Cardiff Economics Working Papers, E2021/32 - December 15, 2021
Broadband Internet and social capital
Research Paper, Sapienza University of Rome Department of Economics and Law Working Papers, 210 - November 15, 2021
Associations between neighbourhood deprivation and engagement in arts, culture and heritage: evidence from two nationally-representative samples
Journal Article - September 16, 2021
Associations between community cultural engagement and life satisfaction, mental distress and mental health functioning using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS): are associations moderated by area deprivation?
Journal Article - September 3, 2021
Leisure time activities and biomarkers of chronic stress: the mediating roles of alcohol consumption and smoking
Journal Article - February 11, 2021
Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit
Journal Article - October 24, 2020
Social class inequalities in educational attainment: measuring social class using capitals, assets and resources
Journal Article - September 2, 2020
Does arts and cultural engagement vary geographically? Evidence from the UK household longitudinal study
Journal Article - August 15, 2020
Patterns of social inequality in arts and cultural participation: findings from a nationally representative sample of adults living in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Journal Article - March 15, 2020
Arts, mental distress, mental health functioning & life satisfaction: fixed-effects analyses of a nationally-representative panel study
Journal Article - February 11, 2020
Measuring changes in subjective well-being from engagement in the arts, culture and sport
Journal Article - September 15, 2019