UK personal and economic wellbeing: three questions to ask
Today's blog comes from Deborah Hardoon, Head of Evidence at the Centre, and is a reflection on this week's release from the Office for National Statistics, showing little movement in personal wellbeing in the UK between April 2018 to March 2019. Economic wellbeing...
read moreWill that Lamborghini make me happy?
Does owning a ‘high status’ good like a luxury car make us happier? In today’s blog Tony Beatton, Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research, sets out why the wellbeing gains are temporary and one-upmanship will erode any...
read moreDoes volunteering make us happier or do happy people volunteer?
This week’s guest blog is from Will Watt, Head of Product at Jump, a social enterprise that measures and values social impact. Here, Will outlines findings from Jump’s newly released report Happy Days which examines new data and larger sample sizes to understand the...
read moreUntangling loneliness: what does it mean? How do we experience it across the lifecourse?
Our Wellbeing Analyst, Silvia Brunetti, talks about how the loneliness conceptual review explored the concepts and what this means in practice.
read moreHow wellbeing impacts business, and differences between retail, manufacturing, finance, and services
This week’s guest blog comes from Christian Krekel, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, working with George Ward from MIT Sloan and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve from Oxford University to analyse the relationship...
read moreDisability, physical activity and wellbeing
This week’s guest blog - the third in our Measuring Wellbeing series that focuses on improving the wellbeing of people with disabilities - comes from Leanne Wightman, coordinator of the Get Yourself Active project, run by Disability Rights UK. The project...
read moreHow can intangible assets enhance wellbeing or reduce loneliness? Evidence call
Deadline extended: Wednesday 11 September WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? We are looking for reports and other unpublished resources that look at how intangible assets – things like culture and traditions – can enhance wellbeing or alleviate loneliness in over-16 year olds...
read moreDoes increasing girls’ and women’s participation in physical activity improve their wellbeing?
This week’s blog come from Spirit of 2012, an organisation set up to recreate the spirit of pride and positivity that defined the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Here they outline the evaluation findings from the Sporting Equality Fund, grants...
read moreCo-production: a key component for wellbeing
Lauren Pennycook is a Senior Policy and Development Officer at the Carnegie UK Trust. Lauren manages the Trust’s Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland project, which seeks to support Community Planning Partnerships to implement a wellbeing outcomes approach. ...
read moreRefugees and asylum seekers in transit: what do we know about their wellbeing?
This week’s guest blog looks at wellbeing among refugees and asylum seekers displaced in temporary transit situations. Dr Miriam Posselt, Research Fellow at The University of South Australia’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research Group shares...
read moreEvaluating projects for people with learning difficulties: when ‘off-the-shelf’ can miss the mark
This week’s guest blog is from Naomi Brill, Insight Manager at Leonard Cheshire. She has over four years’ experience of designing inclusive impact measurement tools and processes, and is currently responsible for developing and embedding an organisation-wide framework...
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