Bringing Cities to Life: The complex relationship between green space and mental wellbeing
This week’s guest blog is from Victoria Houlden, a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant with the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University. Victoria outlines her research on the relationship between urban green space and a resident’s mental...
read moreReturning to work after illness: evidence on improving the experience
This week’s guest blog comes from Abasiama Etuknwa, a postgraduate researcher, part of our Work and Learning Evidence programme at the University of East Anglia. Here, Abasiama outlines the results of her recently published systematic review on the effects...
read moreThe Co-op Community Wellbeing Index: people, place and relationships
This week’s guest blog is co-authored by Amanda Hill-Dixon from The Young Foundation and David Luckin from Co-op on the development of the Co-op Community Wellbeing Index which aims to measure community wellbeing at a local level across the UK.In 2017 the...
read moreNew funding call: wellbeing methods and measures
We are looking for a brilliant, policy-savvy academic consortia to work with us to improve the body of evidence on the measurement of wellbeing in a way that’s useful for policy makers and practitioners. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and...
read moreHappiness, and the relationships we have with people and politics
Last week, on International Happiness Day, the 7th edition of the World Happiness Report was published. The report scores and ranks countries based on the answer to the Cantril ladder question included in the Gallup World Poll, which asks people to value...
read moreHeritage and wellbeing: state of the evidence
Today we publish the scoping review on heritage and wellbeing, from the community wellbeing evidence programme. It looked at 75 papers and reports on the impact of heritage places, interventions, and assets - things like historic objects, monuments or...
read moreMeasuring the impact of Employee Assistance Programmes
This week’s guest blog comes from Neil Mountford, Chair of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association. Together with the Work Foundation they have developed a tool that gives employers evidence of the financial benefits of Employee Assistance...
read moreHow does UK wellbeing compare to other countries?
This week the ONS published a comparative look at how the UK, as a whole, is doing. They compared it against the performance of other countries in the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). They look at...
read moreMeasuring loneliness: new guidance
Today we launch our brief guide on measuring loneliness aimed at charities and social enterprises. Ingrid Abreu Scherer, Civil Society and Wellbeing Lead, explains how the guidance can help you understand your project’s impact, and how your evaluation can help us...
read moreBenefits and challenges of practice examples
This week’s guest blog is by Jane South, Professor of Healthy Communities at Leeds Beckett University and National Adviser on Communities for Public Health England. Jane outlines the benefits and challenges to using practice examples to measure community...
read moreWhat’s driving the decline of young people’s wellbeing in the UK?
This week’s blog looks at wellbeing research from the Intergenerational Foundation on a new Index measuring young people’s wellbeing over a decade. David Kingman, Senior Researcher at the Foundation, explains why family relationships and perceptions of health play...
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