He was the inaugural recipient of the Pomona-Downing Scholarship, studying for an academic year at Pomona College, Claremont, California, US, where he developed his interest in music composition and scored his first film.

[citation needed] In 2007 and 2008, Hancock scored two mixed martial arts action feature films for director Chee Keong Cheung, Underground (12), and Bodyguard: A New Beginning.

"[8] and that "it brings to mind the best of Jerry Goldsmith, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman and John Williams but with that unique Hancock twist that his followers have already grown to love… From the first note to the last, this is a meticulously planned masterclass in how to grab the listener's attention.

[citation needed] Hancock is scoring again for Boyle and co-director Kirk Hendry on Kensuke's Kingdom, the animated feature film adaptation of the Michael Morpurgo book of the same name, due for release in 2022.

[citation needed] In 2015, Hancock scored the short film Killing Thyme for director MJ McMahon, and 'Off to the Vet', a long-form episode of the popular online animated series Simon's Cat.

Hancock won for Best Documentary Score, and was declared Best Composer overall, receiving his statuette at the Puente Genil ceremony during the International Film Music Festival, Cordoba, Spain, on 26 June 2013.

[citation needed] Hancock won a further two categories at the Jerry Goldsmith Awards in 2014: Best Song (for 'Take My Hand' from Unknown Heart [fr], with lyrics by Giles Foster), and Best Free Creation (for his re-score of the silent film One Week).

Produced by Urban Myth Films' Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy and Howard Overman, the series starred Mark Addy, Jack Donnelly and Robert Emms, with Juliet Stevenson as The Oracle, and Sarah Parish as Pasiphae.

The works included the flamboyant overture Variations on a Heroic Theme, the Violin Concerto (with Jack Liebeck as soloist) and a new orchestral treatment of Hancock's earlier quartet Raptures.

In 2012, Hancock became composer-in-residence with the SHM Foundation, a charitable organisation working globally to bring about positive social change through projects in the areas of learning and citizenship, health and the arts.

[29] Based on a concept by SHM Foundation trustee Dame Henrietta Moore, Hancock developed and led the composition of Snapshot Songs, a large-scale community song-cycle produced in collaboration with Londoners.

The songs featured collaborations with and performances by several London community organisations, including the rappers and poets of creative criminal justice charity Only Connect, the teen ambassadors of HIV support charity Body & Soul, Barbican-Guildhall Creative Learning groups such as Future Band, Drum Heads and the Barbican Young Poets, together with poetry from the likes of Mat Lloyd, Luke Wright and Josh Mowll.

One of the 19 songs, entitled "@IvyBean104", was Hancock's setting of the colourful tweets of internet personality Ivy Bean, who had reputedly been the world's oldest active user of Twitter at the age of 104.

These include the English-language Gate Film productions of A Risk Worth Taking, The Four Seasons, Shades of Love (This September), The Other Wife and Unknown Heart [fr], working with director Giles Foster, and starring many renowned British actors (including Charles Dance, Rupert Everett, John Hannah, James Wilby, Olivia Hallinan, Tim Dutton, Tom Conti, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Juliet Mills, James Fox, Freddie Fox, Harriet Walter, Greg Wise and Jane Seymour).

In 2015, Hancock orchestrated the Hugo de Chaire's score to the British science fiction movie Capsule, directed by Andrew Martin and starring Edmund Kingsley.