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Can a local community course improve mental wellbeing and social connection? New RCT findings
This week’s blog comes from Mark Williamson, Director for Action for Happiness. Here, he outlines findings from a Randomised Controlled Trial with our Cross-cutting Methods Evidence team. The trial looked at both self-reported wellbeing and biological outcomes for...
Can reading groups be used to tackle loneliness?
This week we have a joint guest blog from Dr Carina Spaulding at The Reading Agency and Dr Louisa Thomson at Renaisi. The Reading Agency launched Reading Friends, a co-produced befriending programme with the potential to alleviate loneliness and social isolation....
New research, guidance and opportunities in 2020
After five years of collaborating, consolidating, and building the evidence on what works to improve wellbeing, in 2020 we are increasing our support for organisations taking evidence-informed action to improve wellbeing. We’re continuing to collaborate with...
Take our digital e-learning based on the popular course we ran with the LSE back in October.
